SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: One of Two Escaped Inmates Found In Vallejo Motel One of two inmates who escaped from a Contra Costa County detention center last weekend has been found, work — and tensions — will continue today in the clearing of the Wood Street encampment in Oakland, and a possible second US monkeypox death in under investigation in L.A.
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SF News Day Around the Bay: Insta-Famous Chicken Sandwich (With Foot) Gets Its Own SF Restaurant A woman was apparently beheaded by a man she had a restraining order against in San Carlos, tensions were high during another camp-clearing attempt on Wood Street in Oakland, and an Instagram-famous chicken sandwich with foot attached is getting its own ballpark-adjacent restaurant.
SF News Another Scandal for San Rafael Police, This Time for Beating and Bloodying Someone Over an Open Container The San Rafael Police Department was already under scrutiny over depositing a mentally ill homeless man in SF, but now two other officers are on leave for an incredibly violent, brutal response to a day laborer who had an open container of beer.
SF News The Queen Is Dead, and SF Media Now Fondly Recalls Her Visit to the City 40 Years Ago The event of the queen's death, even though it's far removed from the U.S. and will have no impact on global politics, feels inescapably historic. And San Francisco only has one royal visit to commemorate on this day, from 1983.
SF News A San Francisco Parking Spot Is On Sale In South Beach For $90,000 SF’s latest cost-of-living outrage comes in the form of a standard parking space one block from Oracle Park, as a parking space that currently costs $300 a month has had its listing jacked up to $90,000 for permanent ownership of the space.
SF News Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy Arrested In 'Execution-Style' Double Homicide In Dublin A 24-year-old sheriff's deputy in Alameda County was the subject of a brief manhunt on Wednesday before turning himself in to his own bosses and coworkers for a double homicide.
SF News SF Supervisors Vote to Decriminalize Shrooms, Peyote, Other Plant-Based Psychedelics San Francisco joins a movement that’s coming on hard in several other cities and states, decriminalizing “entheogenic plants” like magic mushrooms and ayahuasca, and encouraging research of these for therapeutic purposes.
SF News Flex Alert Continues Thursday; Temps to Finally Start Cooling This Weekend The big California Heatwave of 2022 will slowly start to dissipate this weekend, and in San Francisco this weekend you can expect a cloudy reprieve — though it still may feel a bit warm.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: A San Jose Hospital Lost Power For Hours Amid Heatwave Santa Clara Valley Medical Center lost power for about four hours on Tuesday leading to a crisis, ousted former SF school board member Alison Collins's Russian Hill house is for sale again, and squirrels are splooting all over in the heat.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Leanna Louie Loses Ballot-Booting Lawsuit Elvis Costello has been added to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass lineup, a security guard was critically wounded in a San Leandro armored truck robbery, and District 4 candidate Leanna Louie lost her appeal to get back on the November ballot.
SF News Alameda, Healdsburg, and Palo Alto Lost Power Over ‘Miscommunication,’ Blackouts Weren’t Ordered An hour of power loss in three NorCal cities didn’t have to happen Tuesday night, and you’d better believe that various power agencies are pointing fingers over the snafu.
SF News Homeless Shelter Proposals Across California Taking Flak, Advocates Call for More ‘Gap Housing’ Like Tiny Houses Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s “A Place for All” legislation is just one of many California proposals being criticized for rounding people up into shelters instead of setting people up for permanent housing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club Sets Reopening For October (or 'By November') Fans of Chef Ravi Kapur's homemade SPAM and short rib steam buns can rest assured that Liholiho Yacht Club is indeed making its promised return this fall, nearly a year after closing in its temporary digs on 18th Street.
SF News PG&E Will Pay You to Conserve Electricity During Peak Usage Hours — Starting Today Now you can score a little rebate for conserving electricity during the most brutal hours the California power grid experiences, as a Flex Alert rebate program kicks in today at 4 p.m.
SF News Salesforce Tower Dragged For Displaying 'Power Down' Message While Half the Building's Lights Were On Were that many people still at work after dark inside Salesforce Tower on Tuesday night? Or was the building being a hypocrite while half its lights were on, telling us all to save power with a blaring message across its crown.
SF News Dry Lightning Possible This Weekend From Remnants of Pacific Hurricane, Posing Major Fire Risk We've been teased a few times this summer with threats of lightning that never materialized over Northern California. But with the added fire risk of this week's hot-hot weather, the threat of unstable air and dry lightning from the remnants of a hurricane is very rare in the coming days.
SF News Heat Stuff: Santa Rosa Sees All-Time High-Temp Record Broken, More Energy Conservation Needed Wednesday It hit 115 degrees in Santa Rosa on Tuesday, breaking the city's all-time high-temperature record of 113 degrees set in 1913. And that wasn't even the only Bay Area city to see its all-time record broken.
SF News Humpday Headlines: California Avoids Blackouts, But Just Barely The state avoided rolling blackouts on Tuesday but a few Bay Area cities cut power briefly on their own, BART is fixing a heat-related track problem in the East Bay, and several schools in Novato don't have AC so they're ending the schoolday early this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: High Temperatures Shatter Records Across California, Blackouts Could Be Coming The Queen of the Netherlands held court in the Castro, Sup. Connie Chan’s November housing ballot measure survived a legal challenge, and several California cities saw their all-time highest temperatures recorded Tuesday.
Arts & Entertainment How Weird Street Faire Returning for 2022, Set for October 15 Formerly the springtime kick-off of street fair season, it appears the How Weird Street Faire is now becoming an autumn festival, as they just announced their 2022 version will be Saturday, October 15.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Files Motion For New Trial After 'Remorseful' Prosecution Witness Shows Up at Her House Convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and her attorneys are again trying to keep her out of prison, this time based on what they say is new evidence from a former Theranos employee and key witness for the prosecution.
Business & Tech Santa Clara County Sues Rihanna’s Lingerie Brand Over Allegedly Deceptive Recurring Monthly Fees People who bought bras and underwear from Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty label were allegedly enrolled in a recurring monthly fee program without their knowledge, according to a lawsuit from the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office.
SF News Two Men Escape From Clayton Correctional Facility, Despite Having Only a Few More Months to Serve Two men serving time at a minimum-security detention facility in Clayton sprung the place Sunday morning and remain at large, though one of them only had four more months to serve.
Business & Tech Juul Labs Settles Lawsuit From 33 States Over Marketing to Teens For $440M Formerly San Francisco-based e-cig maker Juul Labs has just settled one of a slew of lawsuits that it's still facing over the marketing of its products to young people, and over the potential harms of its products.
