SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Counter at St. Francis Fountain Is Back Open For Dining Beloved Mission diner and ice cream parlor St. Francis Fountain has just reopened its counter for dining after 21 months of keeping it empty out of pandemic caution.
SF News Amtrak Trains Hits Car in Oakland, Reportedly No One Injured Early reports indicate a vehicle was on the tracks at High Street, and a train collided with it, but no one was hurt and the trains are running again.
SF News Five-Story, Saitowitz-Designed Condo Complex Slated for Belcher Street In Duboce Triangle Plans have been submitted for a five-story, 31-unit condo development on the site of a former artists' studio warehouse and gallery in Duboce Triangle, designed by Stanley Saitowitz and his firm Natoma Architects.
SF News SF City Hall Unveils 2021 Climate Action Plan With Bizarre TEDx Talk Infomercial The San Francisco Climate Action Plan is a legitimate and thoughtful document, but it was launched with a curiously branded TEDx Talk that felt more like a low-budget awards show than a policy discussion.
SF News Marin County Parents Who Sent COVID-Positive Kid to School Could Face Criminal Charges Public health officials in Marin County are talking with prosecutors about the possibility of criminal charges for a couple who ignored a positive COVID test and sent their two children to school to spread the virus around.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rain Storm Headed Here Late Saturday The LAPD is now facing a racist texting scandal, Lyft is telling its workers they can stay remote through all of 2022, and we are in for a decent amount of rain late Saturday night into Sunday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 11 Omicron Cases In Alameda County Were Kaiser Staffers Who All Attended Wisconsin Wedding 11 Kaiser staffers in Oakland who all attended the same out-of-state wedding got Omicron, Glide was doing its grocery bag distribution today, and Rita Moreno will be at the Castro Theatre on Sunday for a 'West Side Story' screening.
SF Politics Breed Picks Fight With Chronicle Over Alleged ‘Misinformation’ in Shared Spaces Red Tape Exposé After the Chronicle ran a report noting that 90% of the city’s Shared Spaces parklets “will need to be removed or significantly changed” under new regulations, Breed ran to rant on Medium and called the report “misinformation.”
SF News Father and Son Arrested on Suspicion of Starting the Caldor Fire in August A father and son who were in the vicinity of the ignition point of the massive Caldor Fire in August, and who made the first 911 calls about the wildfire, are now under arrest and set to be charged with wildfire arson.
SF News Vallejo PD Moves to Fire Officer Who Shot and Killed Sean Monterrosa Detective Jarrett Tonn was placed on paid leave a year after the 2020 shooting of SF resident Sean Monterrosa, and in the wake of new findings, the chief of police is looking to fire him.
SF News 'It Makes Me Sick to Be Here': Family Members of Laci Peterson Confront Scott Peterson at Resentencing Attorneys for convicted murderer Scott Peterson succeeded in getting him off of death row, and on Wednesday, Peterson appeared in a Redwood City courtroom to be resentenced to life without parole. But the hearing was far from rote.
SF News Real Estate Firm That Owned 'Moms 4 Housing' House Hit With $3.5M Penalty From State Wedgewood, the real estate investment firm that is best known locally for their role in a standoff with a group of homeless Oakland mothers two years ago, has reportedly reached a $3.5 million settlement with the state of California over its eviction practices statewide.
SF News Potrero Avenue Shooting Victim Identified as Father of Three Who Helped U.S. Army in Afghanistan A November armed robbery took the life of a man now identified as Ahmad Fawad Yusufi, the sole provider for three young children, who’d assisted the U.S. in the Afghanistan war.
SF News SF Sheriff's Deputies Can Now Work Security at Retail Stores, in Latest Retail Theft Crackdown Tactic You may soon see legitimate, gun-toting, badge-wearing sheriff's deputies working private security at your local Walgreens, as the supervisors approved a plan to let them moonlight as private retail security.
SF News Oakland City Council Approves Additional Police Academies to Staff Up Amid Spike In Violence The Oakland City Council on Tuesday voted to authorize two additional police academies over the next two years in order to help fill vacancies and address attrition in the police department.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pfizer Booster Protects Against Omicron The state has again warned the SF school board that it's in danger of a takeover, Marin's COVID spike is not due to Omicron, and a swarm of offshore earthquakes is rattling northern Oregon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Amazon Web Services Goes Kablooey Apps and websites had outages over an Amazon Web Services snafu, SF sheriffs will get overtime pay for guarding Walgreens stores, and yet another “Matrix Resurrections” trailer has dropped.
SF News City Plans to Buy 114-Room Fillmore District Hotel to House Formerly Homeless After a deal to purchase a tourist hotel in Japantown was met with loud pushback from the the community, the SF Board of Supervisors is now looking to buy the former Gotham Hotel, lately known as Vantaggio Suites, at 835 Turk Street.
SF News Comet Leonard, ‘2021’s Best Comet,’ Buzzing Through the December Skies Also known as C/2021 A, the Comet Leonard will be visible all month, and early mornings are your best time to see it. But you’ll probably need binoculars.
SF News North Bay Man Takes His Own Life By Guillotine, Home Taken Over as Squat By Meth Heads Who Disposed of Body Wow. Another story of a squat where some (probably) meth-addicted squatters ignored or otherwise forgot about some human remains in order to occupy an empty house!
SF News ‘Butt Divots’ Are Coming Back, as Muni Is Rolling Out New, Redesigned Train Seats Your “back door” will be more comfortable again on Muni trains, as SFMTA is rolling out a new fleet of seats, and two trains with the new seats are already in the wild.
SF News Bay Area Marks 80 Years Since Attack on Pearl Harbor Tuesday marks the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and by extension the United States' entry into World War II over the following days. Commemorations are happening around the Bay Area, which is also home to a handful of the remaining survivors of the attack.
SF Politics Anti-Vaxxers Bring Chaos to Healdsburg, Rallying Around Unvaccinated City Council Member A Healdsburg city council meeting turned into a mini-January 6 insurrection Monday, as anti-vaccine zealots stormed city hall and forced a council meeting onto Zoom.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach Restaurant Also Gets Heaps of Hate After Being Mistaken For Place That Turned Away Cops It should surprise no one that online pitchfork mobs tend not to read very carefully or get their facts straight.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Prolific Target Shoplifter Arrested Again After Being Freed By Judge Aziza Graves, the woman arrested on 128 counts of stealing from the Stonestown Target, was arrested again for theft; Contra Costa County has a lot of complaints about restaurants not checking vaccines; the drive-thru Dickens Fair was a mess over the weekend.
