SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Norovirus From Contaminated Canadian Oysters Infects Dozens Across California 34 people in California have tested positive for norovirus, the state’s department of health says, and the CDC has counted 91 people in total who have fallen ill across the country, but the real number may be much higher.
Arts & Entertainment UC Berkeley Paleontologist Posits New Theory For Why T. Rexes Had Those Tiny Arms Many, many children and adults have wondered aloud, upon first learning about the king of dinosaurs Tyrannosaurus Rex, why these powerful, extinct beasts had such short, stubby little arms. Well, a longtime UC Berkeley professor has a new answer.
SF News Walgreens Shoplifter From Viral Video Pleads Guilty, Gets 16 Months In Prison The ride is over for the fellow who rode his bike into a Walgreens and gained viral video infamy for purloining a trash bag full of cosmetics, but his guilty plea and 16-month prison sentence are unlikely to satisfy DA Boudin’s critics.
Business & Tech Trump's Truth Social Platform Takes Another Step Toward Implosion With Two Key Resignations Donald Trump's much touted social media platform that he hoped would be a new conservative alternative to Twitter, Truth Social, has just reportedly lost two key executives six weeks after its launch.
SF News Bomb Scare Prompts Evacuation at Oakland Courthouse There was a bomb scare Monday morning at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in downtown Oakland after a man came in off the street carrying a small, homemade explosive device that he said had been planted on his car.
SF News Police Seek Multiple Shooters In Sacramento Massacre as Victims Begin Being Identified A mass shooting in downtown Sacramento on Sunday morning that claimed at least six lives and injured a dozen other people appears to have been the result of a shootout between multiple gunmen, possibly stemming from a large fight that broke out as nightclubs were emptying out.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Buys a Nearly 10% Stake in Twitter, What Could Go Wrong? The flamboyant Tesla CEO is now Twitter’s largest shareholder, as Elon Musk has scooped up more than 73 million shares of Twitter, valued at nearly $3 billion Friday, but now worth a lot more since the sale went public and the stock went booming.
SF News Shooting In SF's Crocker-Amazon Neighborhood Kills Two, Injures Two A Sunday afternoon shooting near a playground in San Francisco's Crocker-Amazon neighborhood has left two victims dead, and two others injured, and the gunman remains at large.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: The Tech Money Behind the Boudin Recall Ron Conway is among the tech investors supporting the recall of Chesa Boudin, a homeless man is suing the city of San Rafael over its sanctioned encampment, and there's a heatwave arriving midweek that will drive temps up all over the Bay.
SF News SF's Castro Theatre Was Burglarized Twice This Week — By the Same Person On Friday, SFPD responded to a call of another thieving at the Castro's nearly 100-year-old cinema house. After the second break-in, police re-arrested a burglar previously detained concerning Tuesday's burglary.
SF News Sunday Links: Mass Shooting in Sacramento Kills Six, Leaves Another Ten People Injured A mass shooting in downtown Sacramento at 2 a.m. Sunday has claimed at least six lives, Caltrain is experiencing a massive increase in ridership amid high gas prices, and Estelle Harris — the beloved actress in 'Seinfeld' and the voice of Mrs. Potato Head in 'Toy Story' — has died at age 93.
SF News Mothers Against Drug Deaths to Install Billboard in Union Square Monday Calling Out SF's Fentanyl Crisis At least 98 deaths related to drug overdoses have already been confirmed this year in San Francisco — with 40% of those related to fentanyl consumption. Starting Monday, Mothers Against Drug Deaths will have a billboard downtown that brings attention to the city’s overdose and drug sales crisis.
SF News Shooting in SF's Bayview Neighborhood Leaves One Dead, Another Injured SF police responded to a call about an apparent shooting around 1:20 p.m. Friday near 3rd Street and Palou Avenue. On arriving, officers located two young men suffering from gunshot wounds. Both men were taken to a nearby hospital — where one later died of his injuries.
SF News Saturday Links: More Abnormally Hot Temperatures to Heat Up Bay Area Next Week The SF division of the FBI is looking for a missing 14-year-old girl, Asiento — the Mission District's otherworldly cocktail bar — will close (for good) tonight, and we're in for another round of unusually high temperatures next week across the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One Day After Male in Famous Berkeley Falcon Pair Dies, Female Replaces Him With New Suitor An elementary school in San Rafael will reinstate its mask mandate, SFPD increased its reward money for information in the case of Nicole Fitts to $250K, and just a single day after Grinnell — the male in the famous Berkeley falcon pair— was found dead, his female companion has replaced him.
Bay Area Sports The Deep Roots and Family Ties Between Stanford Basketball Star Cameron Brink and Stephen Curry Steph Curry is a goal-oriented, confident person," Cameron Brink's mother said. "And I see that developing in Cameron more and more all the time."
SF News $6.3 Million Settlement Awarded to Hunters Point Homeowners Over Toxic Waste A three-year legal battle leaves Lennar Inc. and developer FivePoint Holdings on the hook for $6.3 million, after a federal judge just approved a settlement with homeowners.
SF News Feds Bust Oakland Man For Fentanyl and Meth Sales In SF's Tenderloin Federal prosecutors are highlighting a case of an arrest of a Tenderloin drug dealer who allegedly sold significant quantities of fentanyl, as well as a smattering of meth, to undercover agents in the last several months.
SF Politics Sup. Stefani Has Launched a Nextdoor-Type Site for the Marina, So Sure, We Tried It Out Supervisor Catherine Stefani’s new website the “Anti-Burglary Neighborhood Network” just launched, purporting to give her district “a way to connect with their neighbors,” and likely an attempt to burnish her tough-on-crime credentials.
Arts & Entertainment Look Up Who Was Living In Your Apartment In 1950 Via Newly Released Census Records Ever been curious who lived in your house or apartment 72 years ago? Want to know how your grandparents or great-grandparents responded to census-taker questions when they came around in 1949 or 1950, or who their neighbors were at the time? Well, you're in luck.
SF News San Francisco to Pay $504K to One-Legged Inmate Forced to Hop to Cell A federal jury has just awarded $504,000 to an inmate at the San Francisco County Jail who filed an excessive force lawsuit in 2018 over his mistreatment at the jail.
Arts & Entertainment Three Owls Rescued From Inside Church of 8 Wheels on Fillmore Have you seen owls out and about in San Francisco? Well we have them. And three barn owls recently found their way into the Church of 8 Wheels roller disco on Fillmore Street — formerly known as Sacred Heart Parish.
SF News 100-Year-Old National Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin Has Retired East Bay icon “Ranger Betty” had the distinction of being the oldest active national park ranger in the U.S., until her retirement Thursday at the ripe, young age of 100.
SF News San Francisco SPCA Sells Pac Heights Hospital to Private Vets, Will Open New Community Clinic In Excelsior The SFSPCA announced Thursday that it is selling its longtime facility in Pacific Heights and using the proceeds to fund a new community clinic that will serve lower-income neighborhoods in the southeast quadrant of the city.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: It's Van Ness BRT Ribbon-Cutting Day! The Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit lanes opened for service this morning, the Tenderloin remains a nightmare at night, and a shooting outside a San Jose high school on Thursday caused some trauma for students.
