SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFO Showing No Signs of Omicron Slowdown A woman was fatally shot Sunday at an East Oakland homeless encampment, Omicron is not deterring holiday travelers through SFO, and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker both have COVID.
Arts & Entertainment Late Night Fireworks For Metallica's 40th Anniversary & Matrix Premiere Confuse Many, Lead to 'Explosion' Reports on Social Media The second of two Metallica concerts at the Chase Center this weekend, in celebration of the band's 40th anniversary, ended with a series of fireworks blasting off that many in San Francisco could not see — but they and their dogs could hear them.
SF News Suspect Arrested in Murder of Sacramento Afghan Refugee Who Was Working for Uber When Fatally Shot 31-year-old Ahmad Fawad Yusufi was resting in his car while on a break driving for Uber when he was bothered by a man demanding his wallet and phone. Police later responded to a call of a gunshot victim — who was identified as Yusufi — on Potrero Avenue near Cesar Chavez Street.
SF News Photos: 'The Matrix Resurrections' Premiere Paints San Francisco Green — and Draws Massive Crowds to the Castro Saturday saw a star-studded crowd (and sea of curious onlookers) descend on the Castro Theater for the highly anticipated premiere of "The Matrix Resurrections," the film's debut inspiring many parts of San Francisco to glow green last night.
SF News Sunday Links: CHP Records Three Deadly Accidents on Bay Area Freeways San Jose launched two "warming centers" for people experiencing homelessness, one of San Mateo's busiest vaccination sites will close until January, and CHP is investigating three fatal car crashes that happened on various Bay Area freeways early Sunday.
SF News Veritas Investments Announces New Program to Forgive Uncovered Portions of Back-Rent Owed by Residential Tenants Veritas Investments — SF's largest landlord, which owns and manages some 250 residential properties in the city — announced this week it will not require tenants to pay their overdue rent caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
SF News San Francisco Might Have at Least 30 Unconfirmed Omicron Cases The Omicron variant now makes up at least 3% of all new documented COVID-19 cases in the United States. Since the city reported its first case of the variant on December 1, another 30 unconfirmed Omicron infections might have already been recorded in San Francisco.
SF News Saturday Links: Dottie’s True Blue Café Permanently Closes After 30 Years in San Francisco A roller skating-themed mural debuted at Golden Gate Park, Union Square endures as the holiday season continues, and Dottie’s True Blue Café has closed for good after more than 30 years in business.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Family of Mario Gonzalez Files Lawsuit Against Alameda Police The NFL postponed three games due to COVID-19 outbreaks, the Oakland Police Commission hired its first general inspector, and a new lawsuit claims Mario Gonzalez — who was killed when Alameda police attempted to restrain him earlier this year — had his constitutional rights violated.
SF News Oakland Opens Mass COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Site at Frank Ogawa Plaza Need a COVID test or booster shot fast before the holidays? Oakland may be your best bet, as Frank Ogawa Plaza outside Oakland City Hall is performing them free through the holidays, though for rapid tests “cost may apply.”
SF News Breed Declares ‘State of Emergency’ in the Tenderloin Over ‘Nasty Streets’ An unusual declaration of emergency in the Tenderloin over opiate use may win praise for adding more cops and treatment options, but Breed might get pushback for the enhanced surveillance, and who knows
SF News Jailed Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Still Has Not Entered Plea, Will Spend Xmas In the Clink Accused, possibly pervy corrupter of teenagers/sexual assault enabler Shannon O'Connor has gotten a new attorney, and she has yet to enter a plea in the Santa Clara County case involving multiple alleged teen victims.
SF News Nuru Takes Plea Deal With the Feds and Will Plead Guilty to Fraud, Plus Yet Unreported $20,000 Bribe A certain “former government employee” and “unnamed developer” should be very worried right now, as Mohammed Nuru is taking a plea deal with the feds and appears ready to sing like a canary.
SF News Landlords Getting Nailed With Huge, Million-Dollar Settlements for Sham Owner Move-In Evictions Two record-setting settlements of more than $2 million apiece in recent months, where the settlement cost more than the house itself, are putting a chill on the old owner move-in eviction runaround.
SF News Morning Power Outage Impacts Transit Center, Downtown Businesses A Friday morning power outage in the Financial District and SoMa was impacting multiple downtown businesses, as well as the Salesforce/Transbay Transit Center.
SF News 18-Year-Old Suspect Arrested For Fatal Shooting at Sunnyvale Airbnb House Party A suspect has been arrested in connection with the August 7 house party shooting at a rental house in Sunnyvale, where a raucous teen party attracted police attention even before the shooting occurred.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Elizabeth Holmes Case Goes to Jury The SF school board officially extended lottery-based admissions at Lowell High, Santa Clara County's health officer is warning of a "deluge" of Omicron cases, and the Elizabeth Holmes case gets handed to the jury today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Schools Bracing for Violence Friday Over the Latest TikTok Challenge The Omicron variant is spreading at frighteningly exponential rates in major cities, Apple is delaying its return to the office indefinitely, and those meddling kids on TikTok are literally encouraging “acts of violence” at schools Friday.
SF News Breed Proposes $400 Million Ballot Measure to Make Muni Less Rickety, Hopefully More Reliable Your June 2022 ballot will have a $400 million bond measure to upgrade aging Muni equipment if Mayor London Breed has her way, but it will need a two-thirds supermajority from the voters to pass.
Arts & Entertainment Keanu Says He Jumped From This SF Building ‘19 or 20 Times’ for ‘Matrix Resurrections’ The stars of ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ did many of their own stunts, including leaping from a Financial District skyscraper. We jumped to conclusions about which skyscraper it was, and its actual height.
SF News Cannabis Dispensaries Suffering Rash of Burglaries, Seemingly Indifferent Police Response Your favorite marijuana shops are turning to armed security, high-tech glass, and even AI to stave off a surge of robberies amidst conspicuously slow-footed action from law enforcement.
SF News Bail Reduced For Accused Caldor Fire Arsonists; Clue Emerges About Machine Gun We still don't know what the prosecution's theory is in the ignition of the Caldor Fire in August, but the father and son accused of starting it are now free on drastically reduced bail.
Business & Tech Waymo Car Hits Pedestrian in Lower Haight, Company Claims a Person Was Driving at the Time One of those omnipresent, sensor-topped Waymo vehicles collided with a pedestrian late Wednesday night, but the company insists the vehicle was not in self-driving robot mode at the time of the accident.
SF News SF Couple Tells Harrowing Tale of Coyote Attack That Almost Killed Their Dog A couple was walking their dog in the Inner Richmond last week when they say a pack of four coyotes emerged from shadows grabbed their 13-year-old terrier Roscoe.
SF News Police In Richmond Fatally Shoot Apparently Drunk Man Holding Airsoft-Style Handgun A man was fatally shot by San Pablo police Wednesday in North Richmond after he appeared to be playing with a handgun in a menacing fashion outside some businesses — but the gun turned out not to be real.
