SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Rep. Defends Controversial Proposal to Kick Russian Students Out of U.S. East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell is doubling down on his remarks about kicking Russian students out of the country, a local spa is offering free passes to Ukrainians, and SF police are looking for a man who robbed a bank on the first block of West Portal Avenue Thursday afternoon.
SF News Juror No. 7 From 2004 Scott Peterson Trial Takes Stand In Pivotal Hearing, as Peterson Hopes to Overturn Conviction Peterson’s lawyers say he should get a whole new trial because a certain juror allegedly lied about having previously been a victim of domestic violence, and they grilled her on the stand all day Friday.
SF News Air Quality District Says Benicia Refinery Has Been Emitting Hazardous Chemicals for 15 Years A recent investigation by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) found that the Valero Benicia refinery in southern Solano County has been emitting hazardous levels of toxic chemicals for years.
SF News Burglar Uses Power Saw to Break Into San Francisco Newsstand, Takes $20,000 In Cash and Merchandise Sunday morning, surveillance video captured a man slicing through the iron gates of one of the city's last remaining newsstands with a circular saw.
Business & Tech Silicon Valley Chipmaking Giant Nvidia Hit With Cyberattack, Russia Theories Already Flying While there is no credible evidence that Russia has anything to do with a cyberattack on Santa Clara-based Nvidia, the company is being tight-lipped about an attack that “completely compromised” their internal systems.
Business & Tech The Trump vs. Twitter Lawsuit is Happening in San Francisco, And It’s Not Going Well for Trump In a lawsuit literally named Trump v. Twitter, the former president is suing Twitter to allow him back on the platform, but his arguments are going fruitlessly in a San Francisco district court.
Arts & Entertainment New Video Game Imagines San Francisco In 3022, After 200 Feet of Sea Level Rise A new PlayStation game by Sony-owned Guerrilla Games depicts San Francisco and some other parts of the state as they might appear without so many humans, in a distant future well populated by threatening robotic dinosaurs.
SF News Oakland Woman Who Spent PPP Loans On Louis Vuitton Bags and Private Jets Gets Three Years In Federal Prison A 32-year-old Oakland woman who was arrested and charged last year in a scheme to defraud the federal government out of $4.5 million in pandemic relief funds has just been sentenced to three years in prison and will have to pay over $1 million in restitution.
SF News It Ain’t Just Hank the Tank — DNA Shows At Least Four Different Bears Plundering Tahoe Homes A 500-pound bear blamed for ransacking nearly 30 South Lake Tahoe homes for food, who has become a massive internet celebrity in the process, is partially exonerated as DNA evidence shows this has been the work of at least four different bears.
SF News Santa Clara County Will Follow Rest of Region and Lift Mask Order Next Week Two weeks behind San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area, Santa Clara County will be lifting its indoor public mask mandate next week — though, like the rest of the region, unvaccinated people are still on the honor system and supposed to be masking up.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: One Dead In Fillmore District Apartment Fire A fire broke out in a row of apartments on Buchanan Street Friday morning, that spate of anti-Semitic flyers has hit two communities in Marin County, and there was a small protest in solidarity with Ukraine in San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Lucky 13 Sign Gets a New Home at Bender’s 10,000 Bay Area Ukrainians fear for their loved ones back home, the SFUSD school board is back in session contemplating how many layoffs they’ll have to administer, and the iconic old Lucky 13 sign has a new home at Bender’s.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Schlok's Bagels Set to Open Next Week Off Divisadero Schlok's, a much-awaited new brick-and-mortar bagel shop for a popular pandemic pop-up, is finally opening next week after a number of delays.
SF News Sean Penn Is In Ukraine Covering the Russian Invasion With VICE Sometime Bay Area resident Sean Penn is reportedly in Ukraine helping to film a documentary about the Russian invasion for VICE Studios.
SF News Even SF's Own City Departments Can't Agree On Neighborhood Boundaries It should come as a shock to no one that there exists no single, official, definitive map that delineates where the Inner Sunset begins and ends, or where the line is drawn between The Mission and Potrero Hill — though many of us have our own ideas.
SF News SF Finally Conducts Delayed Homeless Census, Rest of Bay Area to Finish Theirs Tonight How much has homelessness increased during the pandemic? We’ll have hard numbers soon, as Bay Area cities conduct their first official “homeless census” in three years.
SF News Thieves Use SUV to Ram Metal Door of Oakland Dispensary, Clean the Place Out of Product A group of pot burglars targeted a dispensary inside the old Parkway Theater space in Oakland, and the way they got inside involved using a Lexus SUV to slam a roll-up door.
SF News SFPD Officer Takes Stand in First Excessive-Force Trial: ‘Every Single Baton Strike at the Time Was Necessary’ Officer Terrance Stangel is on trial for felony assault and battery in the case of a 2019 Fisherman’s Wharf beating, and on Wednesday he became the first SFPD officer to have to testify in his own defense in a trial for an on-duty assault.
Arts & Entertainment Crypto Enthusiasts Promote ‘Bored Ape’ NFTs In Mission District Murals We have entered the phase where Bored Ape NFT promotions sit among the Mission Street murals, at a moment when the NFT collective behind these virtual apes is angling for a $5 billion valuation.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Small Wildfire Breaks Out In Deep Woods Near Guerneville A small vegetation fire broke out in some woods east of Guerneville last night, Russia's attack on Ukraine is impacting local gas prices, and a Gilroy woman has been sentenced for her Jan. 6 participation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Millennium Tower Has Another Problem A woman was killed by a VTA bus ins San Jose, SF's Millennium Tower now has a one-inch gap between its top portion and its podium structure, and a right-wing truck caravan is headed for DC.
SF News Graphic Video: Brentwood Police Dog Rips Off Woman's Scalp in Yet Another K-9 Attack While the suspect was indeed guilty of shoplifting, a brutal and bloody K-9 attack from a Brentwood police dog seems little much for a suspect who's not violent, in another East Bay case that’s raising questions about use of K-9 force.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Square Pie Guys to Open Third Location, Their Biggest Yet, at Ghirardelli Square Three years after launching as a pop-up in San Francisco and then opening their first location in SoMa, Square Pie Guys have inked a lease at Ghirardelli Square for what will be their flagship location.
SF News Street Ambassador Shot In Tenderloin Near 'Safe Sleeping' Site An employee of the nonprofit Urban Alchemy, which the City of San Francisco contracts with to manage some homeless services like the "safe sleeping village" tent encampments, was shot and injured Tuesday afternoon.
SF News SFPD Backtracks, Will No Longer Use Rape Kit DNA to Prosecute Rape Victims for Unrelated Crimes After a week-long public relations disaster over misuse of DNA evidence from rape kits, the SFPD announced Tuesday that it will end the practice, but it makes you wonder how many police departments nationwide are doing this.
