SF Politics Boudin Wins Guilty Verdict in Fatal Shooting of Six-Year-Old, Critics Still Furious Shooter Was Tried as a Minor It’s a win that Boudin got guilty verdicts on murder and weapons charges in the killing of six-year-old Jace Young, but a loss in the eyes of those upset he tried the defendant as a minor, meaning a far shorter prison sentence.
SF News Universal Cafe Closes After 27 Years In the Mission Two beloved SF brunch spots that date back to the 1990s have taken their leave in the last week, and this one will hurt for longtime residents of a neighborhood that was once briefly called Multimedia Gulch.
SF News Napa Good Samaritan Missing for Eight Days, Authorities Fear She May Have Been Swept Up in River Flooding Friends and family of 37-year-old Crystal Lea McCarthy are still organizing furiously to find her, but police have troubling evidence she may have been swept away in a flood after feeding residents of a homeless encampment.
SF News Omicron Almost Certainly to Blame As San Francisco Cases Surge; Two Studies Suggest Variant Is Less Severe As opposed to last year's holiday season, there is a mix of good and bad news with this Omicron surge, even though the virus seems to be spreading at a very fast clip.
SF News Arrests Made In Murder of TV News Security Guard Kevin Nishita, Third Suspect Still at Large Two individuals have been arrested in the Nov. 24 fatal shooting of TV news security guard and former police officer Kevin Nishita, and a third suspect is still being sought.
SF News Court Rules Family Can Sue See’s Candies for Husband’s COVID Death Resulting From Wife’s Workplace Infection A new state appeals court ruling says that a household member can sue a company if the company’s negligence brought a fatal case of COVID-19 into the household, and See's Candies allegedly did just that.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zuni Cafe to Start Requiring Booster Proof For Indoor Dining Next Week In a sign of things to come in San Francisco, Zuni Cafe announced that it is going to begin requiring not just full vaccination but also proof of a booster shot for indoor dining starting next week.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Verdict In Holmes Trial Likely Coming Before Christmas The rain we're getting is from a "decaying cyclone" over the Pacific, the jury in the Elizabeth Holmes trial could return a verdict Thursday, and the last Michael Vick dog-fight ring dog has died in Oakland.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bring On the Longest Night of the Year SF COVID cases just doubled in five days amidst the Omicron surge, a dead body on the tracks shut down Civic Center station, and the longest night of the year is underway.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Does Comedy Central Interview, It Does Not End Well The vice president appeared on Charlamagne Tha God’s ‘Tha God's Honest Truth’ Friday, and it got to where her spokesperson tried to cut off the interview, not once, but twice.
SF Politics East Bay Man Sentenced to Three Years for Death Threats to CNN Hosts Who Reported That Trump Lost CNN’s Don Lemon and Brian Stelter both testified at the sentencing of a 36-year-old Bay Point man who threatened to kill CNN hosts, their parents, and their children over the network's lack of faith in Trump’s claims about the 2020 election results.
SF News SF Medical Examiner's Office Gets Its Accreditation Back After Going 18 Months Without a Major Scandal After four years of “missing” drugs, gigantic case backlogs, and some possibly shady manipulation of Jeff Adachi’s autopsy report, the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office is accredited again — but only provisionally.
SF News Tenderloin Camera Shop Was Front For Retail Theft Fencing Operation, According to DA's Office San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Monday that two indictments have been filed and five arrest warrants written in a two-year sting operation targeting organized retail theft in the city.
SF News Man With Rifle Causing Standoff at San Jose UPS Station, Police Attempting to Negotiate UPS employees have been sheltering in place since about 8 a.m. Tuesday morning, as a man with "what is believed to be a rifle" was menacing a San Jose neighborhood and is now barricaded in an RV.
SF News New UCSF Parnassus Hospital Design Unveiled By Architects of deYoung Museum UCSF has released a new rendering for its proposed 15-story hospital addition at its revamped Parnassus campus, designed by Herzog and de Meuron, and it's quite pretty.
SF News Holiday Party In Larkspur Leads to 28 COVID Infections, Omicron Suspected A holiday party in Marin County ten days ago where all attendees were vaccinated led to an outbreak of at least 28 cases of COVID, and health officials believe the Omicron variant was to blame.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose Mall Shooting Leads to Chaos, Looting A shooting at San Jose's Oakridge Mall led to chaos Monday but no victim has been located, Oakland police are forming a new policing district to combat violence, and the NHL is pausing the season from Wednesday to Sunday due to COVID.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Omicron Already Represents 73% of U.S. Cases The CDC says Omicron is quickly overtaking Delta as the dominant variant in the U.S., a mall shooting in San Jose prompts shelter-in-place order, and jurors are still out in the Elizabeth Holmes trial.
SF Politics DA Boudin, Unsurprisingly, Not a Fan of Breed’s Proposed Tenderloin Crime Crackdown It’s not a shocker that progressive district attorney Chesa Boudin has come out against mayor Breed’s plan to stack the Tenderloin with more law enforcement, but board president Shamann Walton is opposing it too, which could derail the mayor's plan.
SF News SFPD Arrests 76-Year-Old Colorado Man in Cold-Case Murder From 1978 Teenager Marissa Rolf Harvey was found dead in Sutro Heights in 1978, but thanks to “advanced forensic investigative techniques,” SFPD found a suspect in Colorado and arrested him for that murder on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Every Single SF Fire Station That’s Decked Out for the Holiday Decorations Competition Dozens of San Francisco fire stations have gone all out to create spectacular Christmas light shows for their holiday decorations competition, and we’ve got pictures and video of every single one of them.
SF News Omicron Community Spread Apparent In 3 Mission Cases; Restaurants In SF and Oakland Temporarily Close Out of Caution A likely deluge of new COVID cases is on the horizon for the Bay Area, due to the Omicron variant and despite widespread vaccination.
SF News 6.2M Earthquake Strikes Off Humboldt Coast, Felt In Parts of Bay Area A 6.2M earthquake struck at 12:10 p.m. PT, with an epicenter in the Pacific at a depth of 9.3 km, 38 km west of Petrolia, in Humboldt County. And shaking was felt in many parts of the Bay Area.
SF News Enjoy This Dry Day — Lots More Rain on Its Way, and Much Snow Up in Tahoe This is the last dry day for the Bay Area for the next week or so, and it is now guaranteed to be a white — maybe even white-out — Christmas up in Tahoe.
SF News Union Square Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Vendors Busted En Masse This Weekend, Carts Confiscated The DPH and the police spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday impounding hot dog vendors’ carts and handing out citations, in one of the more “victimless crime” crackdowns from a city eager to appear that it's cracking down on misconduct.
