SF News First U.S. Case of Omicron Variant Found In San Francisco Wouldn't you know it, the first known case of the Omicron variant of COVID to arrive in the U.S., via South Africa, is in San Francisco, and the patient is already reportedly recovering.
SF Politics Former Investigator Sues SF District Attorney In Whistleblower Complaint The embattled San Francisco District Attorney's Office has one more headache to add to the pile this week as a wrongful termination suit has arrived from a former investigator.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pacific Catch Introduces A Menu Filled With San Francisco Classics To Keep The Cold Out This Winter Announcing a crab-filled SF Classics Menu, Pacific Catch is a West Coast Fish House devoted to offering high-quality sustainable seafood options.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Tolls Go Up to $7 On 7 Bay Area Bridges Next Month Tolls on the Bay Bridge and six other bridges go up $1 on Jan. 1, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a pivotal abortion case today, and high demand for boosters is creating trouble for some local pharmacies.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Falcon Love Triangle Continues, Female Still Hasn’t Chosen Mate DA Boudin’s looting charges against the Union Square burglary suspects could backfire, the CDC will begin testing for the Omicron variant at SFO, and the female Berkeley falcon Annie is keeping both her suitors guessing on which she prefers.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Details Rape, Assault Accusations Against Co-Defendant ‘Sunny’ Balwani It was expected that Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes would heap blame on her ex and business partner Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. But the rape and sexual assualt accusations were stark, and actually explain her “deep voice” bit.
SF News 9th Circuit Upholds CA Ban On High-Capacity Gun Magazines, Will Take Up Assault Weapon Ban Next Gun-law rulings by a controversial federal judge based in San Diego are likely both to be overturned by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, setting up the potential for more Second Amendment fights at the Supreme Court.
SF News City Awards $2 Million to Family of 67-Year-Old Woman Killed by Public Works Truck Rui Xia Zhen was hit and killed by a Public Works truck in March 2020. Nearly two years later, her family finally has a settlement from the city.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Automat Quietly Opens For Daytime Service In NoPa, Will Open Fully Next Week One of the most anticipated restaurant openings of this year has finally made it open, as former Lazy Bear chef Matthew Kirk's Automat has quietly debuted in the NoPa neighborhood.
SF News Contra Costa Sheriff May Have 'Accidentally Released' Nordstrom Flash-Mob Theft Suspect The Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office is “investigating the circumstances” around the release of a Nordstrom ransacking suspect, but the suspect’s mother puts it more bluntly, saying "He was accidentally released from jail."
SF News SF Mayor London Breed Again Seen Partying Maskless at Nightclub, Again Says She Did Nothing Wrong Some finger-wagging is going on over at the Chronicle once more after a new video surfaced of SF Mayor London Breed dancing and cavorting with friends without a mask on at a nightclub on Thanksgiving night.
Business & Tech Twitter Now Says You Can’t Share Other People’s Images Without Their Consent, Confusion Abounds The new post-Jack Dorsey Twitter immediately freaked people out with a “more robust” privacy policy update, and they’re still posting threads to unspool exactly what this all means.
SF News 22-Year-Old Man Shot By Random Gunfire Near SF Civic Center A 22-year-old male was shot and wounded on Hyde Street in the Tenderloin Monday night, and it appears to have been the result of random gunfire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delfina and Pizzeria Delfina Closing 'Til March for Major Remodel, Takeout and Delivery Still Available Delfina and Pizzeria Delfina are going to be combining into a single restaurant on 18th Street in 2022, and both restaurants are closing for sit-down eating for the next three to four months while construction occurs.
SF News Thieves Throw Party In Nearly Open Downtown SF Ramen Restaurant, Leave Behind Bottles, Vomit Some burglars decided to throw a party in a soon-to-open restaurant in downtown San Francisco, and it appears they invited friends and hung around for a few hours, drinking whatever they could find and smoking weed.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Body Found In Bay Near Ferry Building A body was pulled from the water near the Ferry Building Tuesday morning, Oakland's police chief is addressing the public again today, and Oakland cannabis retailers are reeling after recent robberies.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Scott Peterson Moved to San Mateo County Jail Convicted killer Scott Peterson has been moved out of San Quentin to San Mateo County ahead of his resentencing next week, local health officers say the Omicron variant is probably already here, and BottleRock announced Memorial Day Weekend dates for 2022.
SF News Westfield Mall Gets a Cannabis Store — Without Any Cannabis The Westfield San Francisco Centre has just seen a marijuana dispensary of a sort open in the mall, but there is no marijuana there — just “non-medicated cannabis replicas and empty packaging.”
SF News Late-Night Weekend Sideshows Roil Quiet Neighborhoods of West Portal, Outer Sunset Two ‘hoods that do not see many sideshows were both hit with them this past weekend, as both West Portal and the Outer Sunset hosted uninvited sideshows late Saturday night and early Sunday morning.
SF Politics Right-Wing Twitter Launches False Rumor That Nancy Pelosi Bought a Mansion In Florida The conservative blogosphere and Twitterverse ran with a rumor during Thanksgiving Week that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had purchased a $25 million mansion on tony Jupiter Island in Florida, and this is false.
SF News Study: Sierra Snowpack Could All But Disappear In 25 Years Winters with little or no snow could become commonplace in the Sierra Nevada as soon as 25 years from now, according to an alarming new study.
SF News Warm Weather (and No Rain) Will Help Ring In the Start of December In the Bay Area We are in for a very warm week — basically a second round of Indian Summer — here in the Bay Area, as we head into the last few weeks of Fall 2021 and the beginning of the holiday season.
SF News Man Shot and Killed Attempting to Thwart Car Burglary Near Lake Merritt Pergola It’s unclear whether he tried to disrupt the burglary of his own car, or someone else’s, but an unidentified man was killed Sunday afternoon trying to stop a car burglary around Lake Merritt.
SF News Video: Truck Plows Wrong Way Through Bay Bridge Toll Gate, Hits CHP Cruiser A bizarre crash happened at the Bay Bridge toll plaza on Sunday afternoon in which a flatbed truck came barreling through the toll gates going the wrong way, pushing a CHP vehicle out of the way.
Business & Tech Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Twitter CEO, Gives Little Reason A year after an attempted ouster by a major investor, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down from his role at the company, and longtime CTO Parag Agrawal will take the helm in his place.
