SF News Reckless 19-Year-Old Driver Who Targeted Three Pedestrians In Oakland Hills Road Rage Incident Gets Probation A teen driver who used his vehicle as a weapon and repeatedly threatened to run over three people in a frightening incident in the Oakland hills last summer, has taken a plea deal and an attempted murder charge has been dropped.
SF News Speed and Sunlight: The Recipe For an Eleven-Car Pileup In San Francisco If you took I-280 north to work Tuesday morning, there’s a good chance you were late. A massive pileup of crunched cars blocked several lanes of traffic and slowed movement on the
SF News Humpday Headlines: Temperature Records For March Get Toppled Hot temps are fueling wildfire concerns around the Bay and several small grass fires broke out Tuesday, a 107-year-old temperature record was toppled in San Jose, and Contra Costa County deputies fatally shot a person during a "domestic situation" Tuesday night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: How Karl the Fog Can Help Solve the Drought California has confirmed its first Latina state Supreme Court judge, there’s a Nancy Pelosi documentary premiering on PBS tonight, and a new SFPUC pilot program is harvesting water from the fog to help alleviate the drought.
SF News Whale Watching Season Has Arrived, as Large Pack of False Killer Whales Delights SoCal Watchers Stunning video shows a large pod of false killer whales swimming together and going right up to a boat in Dana Point, and the humpbacks, gray, and blue whales will likely show up here any day now.
Business & Tech Alphabet Hit With Racial Discrimination Lawsuit By Former Diversity Recruiter for Google A former Google employee who was tasked with hiring more Black people to the company, and who was herself fired in 2020, has filed suit against Google/Alphabet claiming she was retaliated against for calling out discriminatory practices at the company.
SF News Photos: Revisiting the 5.3M Earthquake That Rattled San Francisco 65 Years Ago Today Though not as major as '06 or '89, a less-remembered 5.3M temblor caused a fair bit of chaos across San Francisco 65 years ago today, March 22, 1957.
SF News Report: SFPD Use-of-Force Cases Down Sharply, But Enormous Racial Disparities Remain Unchanged The SFPD just released an internal report on their stops and use-of-force incidents, and while the SFPD has cut its use-of-force cases in half, the percentages still show overwhelming enforcement disparities against Black and Brown people.
SF News Hillborough Heiress Tiffany Li, Accused In Murder Plot Involving Ex-Boyfriend, Is Claiming Anti-Asian Bias Now A settlement in a wrongful death case brought by the mother of Keith Green is just about reaching completion in a San Mateo County court. But Tiffany Li, Green's ex who was acquitted of his murder, wants the settlement amount kept secret.
SF News Big Conferences are Back, as Game Developers Conference Returns to Moscone Center An estimated 10,000 or more video game nerds — including the Wordle guy — have converged upon Moscone Center for the return of the annual Game Developers Conference, though the event is projected to have only about half of its normal attendance.
SF Politics Mandelman Reintroduces Shelter-for-All Proposal at Board of Supervisors, Hopes to Get It to a Vote This Time Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is reviving, for a second time, proposed legislation that would require the city of San Francisco to provide shelter to anyone who needs it — something that has been established law in New York City for decades.
SF News Video: Vigilante In Alameda Takes Down Walgreens Shoplifter, Claims 'Citizen's Arrest' A dude who witnessed some brazen shoplifting at a Walgreens store in Alameda on Saturday decided to take matters into his own hands and tackle the guy, claiming citizen's arrest. This probably isn't the answer, dude!
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Heatwave Begins With Gusty Winds This week's spring heatwave will bring temps to the Bay that are 20 degrees above normal, limited service returned to BART's Red Line this morning, and the SFPD is investigating a deadly hit-and-run collision in the Bayview that happened Sunday.
SF News Gen Z Moving To San Francisco More Than Any Other Group People in the Gen Z age group moved to San Francisco more than any other city in the United States last year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Woman Confesses to Killing Her Mother A 27-year-old woman called San Jose police on Sunday and said she killed her mother, the family of missing Antioch woman Alexis Gabe continues to search for her, and a well loved Mission mural is getting a touchup in honor of its 10th anniversary.
Business & Tech Detestable L.A. Tesla Owner Performs 50-Foot Jump on Public Street, Damages Multiple Other Cars In a hit-and-run fiasco that a crowd of Tesla fans clearly delighted in, a Tesla owner in L.A. performed a massively dangerous 50-foot leap on city streets, and damaged a few other cars with this stupid stunt.
SF News Breed’s Tenderloin Linkage Center Closed for One Day for Privacy Additions, and It’s Now Back Open The Tenderloin Linkage Center took a one-day break to re-fence the area for privacy, but opened again Saturday, and now looks like it will stay in place for the rest of the year.
Arts & Entertainment No Need for Vaxx Cards at Chase Center Starting Next Month, But You Still Need Your Mask If You're Unvaxxed The lifting of mandates has come at a very fast pace in California in recent weeks, and now we officially have word from the Chase Center that they will stop checking vaccination status as of April 1.
Business & Tech Apple Services Go Kablooey in Giant Monday Morning Outage Your Apple Maps, App Store, iCloud Mail and auxiliary Apple services galore may have hit the skids for a few hours Monday morning, and while the temporary outage was international, most everything is back up and running.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Is Indeed Happening on Hippie Hill for 2022, With Special Guest… Mike Tyson? It will finally be the first 4/20 with legal cannabis sales in Golden Gate Park, after the last two 4/20 celebrations were canceled by COVID-19, with boxer-turned-bud proprietor Mike Tyson scheduled to appear as a special guest.
SF News Firefighters Save Man Stuck in Underground Pipe in Antioch For Two Days It took three and a half hours, fifty people, and risky maneuvers to save a man in his mid-30s from an underground pipe where he’d gotten stuck.
SF News Yet Another Encampment Fire, This Time at Oakland Tiny-House Complex An ostensibly safer and more regulated encampment for the homeless in Oakland experienced a fire Monday morning much like the many that have broken out in the last year in unsanctioned encampments.
SF Politics Campos Draws Groans, Backlash for Saying His Campaign Is ‘Fighting and Running Like Ukrainians’ in Assembly Race A hamfisted comparison by David Campos that his campaign was “fighting and running like Ukrainians” in his state Assembly race against Matt Haney is getting eyerolls and disapproval, right as early voting kicks off.
SF News California DMV Now Letting You Take Written Renewal Exams Online In a gesture toward joining the 21st Century and reducing the amount of time you have to spend at a physical DMV office, the California DMV is now going to let you take written exams online.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: HIV Activists Rally at SF's City Hall Steelworkers are going on strike at Richmond's Chevron refinery today, one person is dead following a high-speed chase in Healdsburg on Sunday, and HIV/AIDS activists are rallying at SF's City Hall to call for renewed attention on treatment and detection of the disease after the pandemic.
