SF News Alameda Sheriff's Recruit Killed In Freeway Shooting Near Bay Bridge A San Francisco man who was training to become an Alameda County Sheriff's deputy was shot and killed Tuesday while driving a vehicle on the approach to the Bay Bridge toll plaza.
SF News Supervisors Take a Do-Over Vote on Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration, Decide to Delay Their Vote Again After demanding a revote on Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin “state of emergency” declaration, the supervisors debated it for three hours Tuesday night, and then just punted another vote out to February 8.
SF News Yep, PG&E Lines Responsible for Dixie Fire We already knew, less than a week after the record-shattering Dixie Fire began last July, that PG&E would likely again be to blame for starting the blaze. And now Cal Fire has confirmed it with the conclusion of their investigation into the fire.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider Was Robbed at Gunpoint In Oakland Two armed thieves in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood likely didn't know they were robbing the current reigning champion of Jeopardy!, but Amy Schneider was robbed of her wallet and phone on Sunday — and she's okay.
SF News Details Emerge on Milpitas Murder and Car Chase Where Ex-Boyfriend Allegedly Stalked, Killed Victim We now know the identity of the victim and the alleged killer in Sunday’s grisly Milpitas high-speed chase, where the victim was an aspiring realtor, and her ex-boyfriend a registered sex offender.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Warriors Ticket Prices Soar for Klay Thompson's Possible Sunday Return Bay Area schools are hoping to manage Omicron through at-home testing, Oakland just saw its third homicide in the first five days of the year, and ticket prices for Sunday's Warriors game are soaring on the possibility it will be Klay Thompson's first game back in 2.5 years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: More Than 10% of SFUSD Teachers Were Out Sick on Tuesday More than 20,000 people still don't have power near Tahoe, Zuni Cafe has harsh words for Matt Haney over his Tenderloin “state of emergency” vote, and the first days back in school have seen hundreds of SF teachers calling in sick.
SF Politics Republican Radio Host Larry Elder Announces He Will Not Run For CA Governor In 2022 The Trumpiest of Republican candidates in September's gubernatorial recall in California, Larry Elder, has just announced that he will not run again in 2022 — which means Gavin Newsom is unlikely to face any viable competition for reelection.
SF News DoorDash Driver Pleads Guilty to Strangling, Threatening to Kill Someone Who Told Him the Mask Goes Over Your Nose A South San Francisco DoorDash delivery went south when a liquor store clerk reminded a DoorDash driver that the mask goes over your nose, which resulted in a death threat and attempted strangulation.
SF News SF COVID Testing in Meltdown, as Lines Stretch Several Blocks, Results Taking Multiple Days Mayor Breed announced a testing surge Tuesday morning, but it may be too little too late, as people are standing in line for hours and waiting several days for COVID-19 test results.
SF News Suspect In SF's First Homicide of the Year Turns Himself In A 43-year-old man linked to a fatal Monday shooting near the Embarcadero turned himself in to San Francisco police shortly after the shooting.
Business & Tech Will Elizabeth Holmes Face Stiff Sentence, or Will Judge Go Easy On Her Because of Baby? The specter of the Theranos collapse could linger on both with the upcoming trial of alleged co-conspirator Sunny Bulwani, and with Holmes's sentencing, which could come in mid-2022. But her jail time could be delayed pending an appeal.
SF News SF Dad Starts ‘Bike Bus’ of Kids Riding to School, It Swells to Several Dozen In Size Inspired by a similar “bicibús” ride in Barcelona, a pro-slow-streets group has created a pint-sized Critical Mass bike ride for kids pedaling to school en masse.
SF News Los Gatos ‘Cool Mom' Faces More Uncool Problems, Hit With Defamation Suit From Kid She Called a ‘Rapist’ An unnamed teen boy has a defamation lawsuit against the notorious mom who allegedly threw boozy teenage parties, for spreading the rumors that the teen was a “rapist” and a “predator.”
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Napa County Reaches Full Capacity In ICUs The SFPD is investigating the first SF homicide of the year in SoMa, 146 students in Stanford dorms are currently isolating with COVID, and Napa County has just reached its regular ICU bed capacity — though not just because of COVID.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty On Four Counts of Fraud, Not Guilty On Four Others, Jury Remained Hung on Three The verdict is in, at least two-thirds of one, for Elizabeth Holmes, and while she'll surely appeal, some time in the clink looks fairly inevitable for the disgraced entrepreneur.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Clocks State's Third-Highest COVID Transmission Rate SF now has the third-highest COVID transmission rate in all of California, Apple just became the first U.S. company worth $3 trillion, and the NYT had a piece ready to publish today on the "Epic Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes."
SF News Year-End Stats Show SF Property Crime Down 11.2% Below Pre-Pandemic Levels, Despite ‘Moral Panic’ A detailed analysis of property crime in Bay Area cities shows that San Jose and Berkeley have seen property crime decrease over the last two years, and while many Bay Area cities saw an increase in 2021, thefts are still down double-digit percentages compared to 2019.
SF News 52-Year-Old Asian Man Robbed and Beaten Next to Fillmore Area Restaurant A 52-year-old man was pistol-whipped and robbed of his wallet, watch, and cellphone on New Year's Eve in the Fillmore District.
SF News San Ramon Police Sic Attack Dog on Uber Driver Who’d Merely Missed Car Payments An Uber driver who’d missed rental car payments had his vehicle reported stolen, and San Roman police allowed their K-9 to maul him badly, in an incident that begs ethical issues of gig car rental companies and police use of force.
Arts & Entertainment Good News!: Bonded Peregrine Falcon Couple Revives Their Courtship Atop Berkeley Campanile, Following Injury As if they knew it was New Year's Day and almost time to raise another brood of chicks, longtime falcon lovers Annie and Grinnell reunited and were observed on camera performing courtship behavior for the first time since Grinnell's November return to the nest following a fight with a rival.
SF News [Update] Elizabeth Holmes Jury Deadlocked on Three of Eleven Counts, Judge Polls Jurors The big news of Elizabeth Holmes’ Theranos fraud trial today is not entirely big news yet, just another delay, but the flip side of the jury being deadlocked on three counts means they will render a verdict on the other eight.
SF News French Bulldog Stolen on New Year's Day in the Marina Has Been Returned A nine-month-old Frenchie named Rosie has reportedly been returned to her family, though it's not yet clear whether someone collected the $10,000 reward being offered.
SF News San Francisco Ends Year With Richmond District Homicide A New Year's Eve shooting became San Francisco's 56th homicide of the year, marking an uptick in the homicide rate seen in recent years.
SF News Milpitas Police Drawn Into High-Speed Chase With Man Who Had Ex-Girlfriend’s Dead Body in Car A police pursuit yielded a grisly discovery Sunday afternoon, after a high-speed chase between Milpitas and Fremont ended with a murder victim’s body being found in the back of her own stolen car.
