SF News Day Around the Bay: Charges Filed In Murder of Security Guard Kevin Nishita Three so-far unnamed suspects have been charged in Kevin Nishita's November murder, the new A's stadium has been dealt another blow, and The Sentinel is giving away free corned-beef sandwiches for St. Patrick's Day!
Arts & Entertainment Oscar-Winning Marin County Filmmaker John Korty Has Died at Age 85 The director of “Go Ask Alice” and “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” was the inspiration for Coppola and George Lucas to start up their own Bay Area film studios, and remained in Marin County throughout his prolific career.
SF News Report: 40% of SF Houses are Selling for $100K Over Asking Price Homes are selling for $100,000 or more over the asking price all over the Bay Area, as 40% of sales in SF and nearly 50% of San Jose homes are going for six figures over asking.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horn BBQ, Brandon Jew, House of Prime Rib All Among 2022 James Beard Award Finalists The finalists for this year's James Beard Awards — the first with a full slate of nominees and actual awards given since 2019 — are now out, and the Bay Area is well represented both in the California and national categories.
SF News Yet Another COVID-19 Surge? Wastewater Samples Suggest That Yes, We May Be in for Another Wave While it may just be a blip, the CDC confirms that wastewater samples from a third of the country’s sample sites show increasing case counts, right while China and Europe are seeing big COVID surges.
SF News Fatal Shooting In Fremont Sounds Like Yet Another Failure for Mental Health System A fatal shooting in a residential neighborhood in Fremont, which is being characterized as an act of self-defense, sounds like a tragic end to a psychotic episode that was left untreated.
SF Politics Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration Ends With a Whimper, Supervisors Wonder If It Didn’t Make Things Worse The much publicized Tenderloin emergency declaration will fizzle out Thursday, and the Board of Supervisors spent four hours debating its effectiveness Tuesday, concluding it merely pushed the urban blight to other parts of the city.
SF Politics New Poll By Recall Boudin Campaign Suggests Dems In Favor; Pro-Boudin Camp Fires Back With More Police Data There were a couple more salvos in both directions this week from the campaign to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and those who support him, with each side trying to use arguably shaky numbers to bolster their cases.
SF News Humpday Headlines: No Tsunami Threat From Japan Earthquake BART service this morning between Dublin and Pleasanton was disrupted by a death on the tracks, those Uber/Lyft gas surcharges kick in, and a powerful earthquake near Fukushima in Japan is prompting tsuami warnings — but not for us.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kamala Harris’ Husband, First Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, Has COVID-19 Michael Mina is launching a new boutique restaurant development group, the “food desert” Bayview may have a Lucky Supermarket on the way, and Vice President Harris’ husband has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Net Finally Nearing Completion Two or three people are still taking their lives on the bridge each month, but the completion date for a long-sought suicide detrerrent net is finally on the horizon.
SF News Child's Remains Found In Merced Home Confirmed as Missing Hayward Girl; Mother's Boyfriend Still at Large Merced authorities confirmed on Tuesday that the remains of a girl found at a residence in the city last week are those of eight-year-old Sophia Mason, who was reported missing by family members in the East Bay.
Bay Area Sports And Just Like That, the Warriors Are Whole(ish) Again After two disappointing seasons of missing the playoffs, as well as injuries among all of Golden State's superstar veterans, after last night the Warriors are another step closer to being whole and in form again.
SF News San Mateo County Convinced It Can Reach ‘Zero’ Homelessness in 2022 The Project Homekey bonanza has San Mateo County officials talking as if they will solve homelessness in their county in 2022, though their homeless population is a fraction of San Francisco’s.
SF News Woman Who Swiped $4K Bottle of Cognac From San Jose Restaurant ID'd as Mother of 6, Owner Not Pressing Charges The suspect has been identified in that brazen and ill-conceived theft of an expensive bottle of Remy Martin Louis XIII Cognac from a steakhouse on Mt. Hamilton last week, and she's very, very sorry.
SF News Bay Area Slightly Decreased Water Usage During the Drought to Date, While Palm Springs' Usage Went Up 19% The majority of residents and businesses in the state of California appear to have ignored calls for voluntary reductions in water usage during the current drought emergency. The Bay Area is the only exception, but even we only decreased usage by less than 2%.
SF News Hillsborough Police Release Video of So-Called ‘Criminal Tourist Burglary Crews From South America’ The public is getting its first look at a burglary crew suspected of making short work of a string of wealthy Silicon Valley homes, and authorities say they are professional "burglary tourists" from South America.
Bay Area Sports USF Dons Basketball Team Makes March Madness for the First Time Since 1998, Plays Thursday Night The University of San Francisco Dons have made the Men’s NCAA Tournament for the first time in 24 years, and while the Sweet 16 will be played at the Chase Center, the Dons are bracketed to a different region.
SF News SF Teachers Camp Outside School District Headquarters, Demanding Missed Paychecks Over 100 employees with the San Francisco Unified School District protested outside the district’s headquarters Monday, demanding missed or incorrect checks be rectified and paid out — and around two dozen of them spent the night outside the downtown district office.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom and Legislature Give UC Enrollment Reprieve The legislature passed — and Newsom signed — a quick fix to CEQA to let UC Berkeley keep its enrollment number, lawmakers are pushing to suspend California's gas tax, and the jury has been seated in the Sunny Balwani fraud trial.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kate Steinle Shooter Pleads Guilty In Federal Gun Case Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate has pleaded guilty to federal gun charges in connection with the 2015 shooting of Kate Steinle, BART lost about 2% of its workforce last year to early retirement and the vaccine mandate, and three SF employees are suing over the city's vaccine mandate.
SF News Officer Edith is Leaving SF Animal Care & Control After 21 Years The wildly popular local Twitter celebrity Officer Edith, the SF Animal Care & Control officer who’s ruled the roost on Twitter for nearly seven years, is leaving the organization. But she’s not giving up the Twitter account, and will still tweet!
SF News Retired BART Cars Being Repurposed Into Arcades, Beer Gardens, and More Eight lucky winners have been awarded decommissioned BART cars, as BART announced these retired cars will be transformed into a retro video game arcade, a bike repair shop, and a beer garden at The Oakland A’s stadium.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Classy Crew Swipes $4,000 Bottle of Cognac on the Way Out of San Jose Steakhouse, Sheriff Investigating A group of 10 people who were dining last week at at an upscale steakhouse in San Jose appears to have wanted to take a special souvenir with them — and it was a very expensive bottle of booze.
Business & Tech Facebook Relaxes (and Then Reverses) Its Rules Over Calling for Leaders to Be Killed, Because of Putin Meta made a Putin-specific change to its policy on calling for the assassination of world leaders late last week, then backtracked today for ill-explained reasons.
