SF News Father of Two Charged With Murder In West Oakland Shooting of Teen Who Was Allegedly Trying to Steal a Car A 42-year-old man has been charged with murder after he allegedly shot and killed a 17-year-old boy who, along with an accomplice, had allegedly been repeatedly burglarizing cars on the suspect's block. And the suspect's family says it was self-defense.
SF Politics WTF, South Lake Tahoe? Mayor Pro Tem Arrested for Assault, One Day After Mayor Admits Embezzlement Just one day after the Mayor of South Lake Tahoe admitted to embezzling money from a church, we learn that the city’s second highest-ranking elected official was arrested for assaulting an employee at a bar he had been 86’d from.
SF News Lowell High School Temporarily Evacuated Due to Reported Bomb Threat A "possible" bomb threat Tuesday afternoon led to the evacuation of San Francisco's Lowell High School, though this appears to have been just a precautionary measure.
SF News ‘Shrimp Boy’ Back In the News! SF Sheriff Rehired Deputy Who Admitted He Lied to FBI to Protect Hired Killer Another serving of “Shrimp Boy” in today’s headlines, as the SF Sheriff’s Office has rehired a deputy who admitted lying to the FBI over lending a Shrimp Boy-affiliated hired hitman his department-issued bulletproof vest.
SF News ICE Says Napa DUI Driver Suspected In Crash That Killed Six Was Deported Multiple Times, Has Drug Record The suspect in last month's deadly minivan crash in Napa County has a record of drug arrests and has been deported from the US multiple times, ICE says, making this case more likely to become a politically charged one.
SF News Neighbors Furious as Oracle Park Leaves Its Floodlights on In the Wee Hours of the Morning The San Francisco Giants finished their season nine days ago, but neighbors who live near Oracle Park say the ballpark has been blasting its bright-white flood lights as late as 4:30 am, and wreaking havoc on their sleep schedule.
SF News Judge Finds Multiple Grounds For Removing San Mateo County Sheriff From Office Following an administrative hearing in August, the retired judge overseeing the hearing has issued a 42-page opinion that essentially calls Sheriff Christina Corpus uncredible, and offers multiple grounds on which to remove her from office.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Federal Shutdown Impacts Air Traffic Control A medical helicopter crashed Monday on a highway in Sacramento, injuring three; Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill to give raises to Cal Fire firefighters; and the government shutdown is impacting air traffic control towers across the country.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Uniqlo Confirms Market Street Return Uniqlo confirms its return, near Union Square, to the former Old Navy flagship; the power was out today for thousands in Oakland; Bari Weiss is now the head of CBS News.
Business & Tech Proposed Pilates ‘Chain’ Studio on Valencia Street Rejected by SF Planning Commission Over Formula Retail Ban The 1,300-store chain Club Pilates was hoping to swoop into a Valencia Street storefront that’s been vacant for a year and a half. The SF Planning Commission still deemed this formula retail, and rejected their bid.
SF News Sonoma County Deputy Crashes During High-Speed Chase, Leaving Bystander Injured We have another instance of a Bay Area law enforcement vehicle engaged in a high-speed chase resulting in casualties for people not involved in that chase. This time, an elderly man was reportedly left with major injuries.
SF News Seven Deplorable Teens Arrested After Alleged Late-Night Smash-and-Grab at Concord Mall Seven teens are accused of busting the glass entrance doors of Concord’s Sunvalley Shopping Center and emptying merchandise out of stores at around 4 am Sunday morning, but they didn’t make it far after a bungled getaway attempt.
SF Politics South Lake Tahoe Mayor Admits to Embezzling Money From Church, Recent Suicide Attempt A shocking political story out of South Lake Tahoe, as Mayor Tamara Wallace admits to stealing money from the local Presbyterian Church, and having attempted to end her own life because of it last month.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The 25th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Was Blessed With Great Music, Three Sunny Days It was a gorgeous late-summer weekend in Golden Gate Park as the beloved Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival rang in 25 years, with stars of bluegrass — and jazz, and rock, and country, and folk, and other genres — serenaded a grateful SF audience.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina's Luxe Bourbon Steak Redux Opens Friday, Along With Companion Bar From Steph Curry It's a fall season of splashy restaurant openings in San Francisco at last, after some quiet years on the restaurant scene. And among those is the revamp of Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak, in the grand ground floor spaces of the Westin St. Francis.
SF News Which SF Speed Camera Captures the Most Speeders? Hint: It's on Bryant Now a few months into the speed-camera era of San Francisco traffic enforcement, the most notorious block for speeding covered by the cameras is at Third and Bryant streets, which accounts for nearly 25% of all SF speed camera tickets.
SF News One Killed, Two Critically Injured In Separate Hit-and-Run Collisions In San Francisco On Friday, two people were struck and seriously injured in a hit-and-run in the Upper Haight; and less than 5 hours later, a separate hit-and-run took one pedestrian's life in Bernal Heights.
Bay Area Sports Watch: Oakland Ballers Baseball Team Celebrates Championship With Hyphy-Infused West Oakland Parade The minor-minor leaguer Oakland Ballers won a championship in just their second year of existence, and took to the streets with their wacky possum mascot Sunday to celebrate how they’ve replaced the Oakland A’s with a bona fide champion.
SF News San Francisco-Based Scientist Wins Nobel Prize for Medicine A researcher based in San Francisco is one of three people who share this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine, for their work on the study of the body's immune responses and autoimmune diseases.
SF News Stanford Protesters Accused of Vandalizing University President's Office Make Court Appearance The so-called Stanford 11, the group of protesters accused of breaking into the office of the university president amid pro-Palestinian protests in June 2024, were scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Kamala Harris Discusses Election at Masonic Event 3,000 people came to Kamala Harris's book event Sunday night in SF; the suspect in the killing of an Urban Alchemy worker had his first court appearance; and the Supreme Court has denied hearing an appeal by Ghislaine Maxwell.
SF News Home of South Carolina Judge Who Blocked Feds From Accessing Voter Data Burns to the Ground The home of Diane Goodstein, a South Carolina judge who’s been receiving death threats after going up against Trump in September, burned to the ground in a suspected explosion Saturday. Her husband, former State Rep. and Senator Arnold Goodstein, reportedly leapt from the building to escape.
Business & Tech Some Optical Gaming Mice Can Be Manipulated to Spy on Users Through AI, Researchers Warn Researchers at UC Irvine uncovered a vulnerability that enables some gaming mice with polling rates of 4,000 Hz or higher — many of which are developed in the Bay Area — to be turned into spyware, capturing conversations through desk vibrations using AI.
Politics [Update] Deployment of California National Guard Members to Portland Halted by Judge Governor Newsom announced Sunday that Trump deployed California National Guard members to assist law enforcement in Portland. The move was later blocked by a Trump-appointed federal judge who had previously blocked the president from federalizing Oregon troops.
SF News Sunday Links: SF Sheriff’s Deputy Arrested for Domestic Battery, But Not Charged The man from the viral “Blinking White Guy” meme lives in SF; the perpetrator of a Hayward murder-suicide was fighting with his parents over his hygiene; and the sheriff’s department is investigating a deputy accused of domestic battery.
