SF News Mother Shot By Estranged Husband In Daly City While 4-Year-Old Was In Next Room A 26-year-old woman was murdered over the weekend in Daly City, and some disturbing details have emerged about the case, including the fact that her four-year-old was in the next room when it happened.
SF News I-280 On the Peninsula Is the Roadkill Capital of California A new study on the frequency of roadkill on California roads finds that I-280 between San Bruno and Cupertino is the “Deadliest Highway in California” for animals.
SF News Squatters Suspected Of Killing Las Vegas Woman Absolved As Police Say She Likely Died Earlier and They Just Buried Her A movie-of-the-week-worthy case of a woman whose dismembered body was found buried in the side yard of her home that initially had been ruled a homicide has now been deemed a death by natural causes — and squatters in her home found her already dead in a chair.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Florida Now Courting In-N-Out Because Ron DeSantis Loves a Vaccine Fight Apparently In-N-Out CEO Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson — the evangelical Christian heir to the company founded by her grandparents — had a phone call with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis because In-N-Out has become a hero of the anti-vaxx right.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DJ Khaled-Fronted Ghost Kitchen Restaurant Another Wing Appears Ready to Open SF Location DJ Khaled has lent his name to a delivery-only wings enterprise that is "making history" today with a simultaneous launch on three continents with 150 locations, and one of them appears to be in San Francisco.
SF News More Details Emerge on Fox Theater Shooting, and Another Woman Was Shot Nearby Just Hours Later Two women were shot in separate incidents Wednesday afternoon and early Thursday morning in Oakland, and while the Fox Theater victim is expected to recover, the other woman is reportedly in grave condition.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Cal Football Outbreak Maybe Not a Real Outbreak, Says Expert An SF educator was killed in a pedestrian collision in Cow Hollow, the UC Berkeley football outbreak might not be a real COVID outbreak, and an original Apple-1 computer just sold for $500K at auction.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Shooting Outside Fox Theater Leads to Canceled Concert A woman was injured in a shooting outside the Fox Theater in Oakland today, COVID deaths in California have largely shifted to rural counties with low vaccination rates, and Ellume is recalling its at-home COVID tests over false positives.
SF Politics Ex-Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli Has House Raided by Sonoma County Sheriff's Office The former Windsor mayor who went down in a cloud of sexual assault allegations from nine different women may be hiding at an Italian castle, but his Sonoma County home was relieved of a few items today by sheriff's detectives investigating those allegations.
SF News Two California Men Charged In Phony PAC Robocall Scheme That Targeted Both Trump and Clinton Voters In 2016 Three men, two from California and one from Texas, were indicted by the federal government last week in an alleged $3.5 million fraud scheme in which they collected small donations via robocalls targeting American voters in 2016.
SF Politics SF’s Proposed New State Assembly Map Draws Flak for Creating White-Majority District One of the many quirks of the proposed SF state assembly district boundaries is that if David Campos won his assembly race, he would not even live in the district he represents.
SF News Two Laptop Thieves Convicted In Oakland Killing Outside Montclair Starbucks A jury in Alameda County today returned guilty verdicts on charges of murder and manslaughter against two men accused in a New Year's Eve 2019 laptop robbery that ended in the robbery victim's death.
Business & Tech Feds Sue Uber Over 'Wait Time' Fees Which They Say Discriminate Against the Disabled The Department of Justice has filed suit against Uber over the company's practice of charging fees when drivers have to wait more than two minutes for a passenger to get in their vehicle.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Upscale Fish Taco Place Cholita Linda has Opened in the Ferry Building Traci Des Jardins' fast-casual Ferry Building Mexican spot Mijita has been closed since before the pandemic, but a worthy replacement has arrived in artisan taco purveyor Cholita Linda.
SF News Winter COVID Surge Already Starting In California, But Bay Area Could Be Spared COVID cases and hospitalizations are ticking up in parts of California, and while there doesn't seem to be evidence of a winter surge starting in the Bay Area, there could be one taking shape around us.
Arts & Entertainment San Ramon Roller Rink Golden Skate, One of the Bay Area’s Last Rinks, Says It’s Closing COVID-19 has been tough on the roller rink business, and decades-old San Ramon roller rink Golden Skate says it’s hanging up its skates after the year’s end.
SF News Humpday Headlines: You Can Now Buy Crabs Off Boats at Fisherman's Wharf Whenever Dungeness season begins you can now buy crabs right off of boats in San Francisco, Comcast still won't say what the root cause of Monday's outage was, and Atherton is still the nation's most expensive zip code.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Union Square Loses Another Big Store DSW is closing on Powell Street, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says the metaverse scares her, and SF Mayor London Breed has come out vocally in support of the recall of three school board members.
SF News Frank Somerville Speaks, Says He's Likely Out at KTVU Longtime KTVU anchor Frank Somerville, who's been off the air since being suspended by management in September over a disagreement about the coverage of the Gabby Petito case, is speaking out and telling the press that he doesn't expect he'll be back at the station.
SF News In Wake of Gabby Petito Hysteria, CNN Takes Up Case of Arianna Fitts, the SF Toddler Now Missing for Five Years Arianna Fitts would now be eight years old, but she hasn’t been seen since 2016, and CNN is shining new light on her case in hopes of a breakthrough.
SF Politics The Press Has Located Gavin Newsom — He Was at Ivy Getty’s Wedding/Trick or Treating With His Kids The mystery of the disappearing governor has been solved, as Gavin Newsom apparently skipped a global climate conference to attend the fancy Getty heiress wedding at City Hall Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Uh Oh: Leonardo DiCaprio Reportedly Set to Play Jim Jones In Jonestown Flick Oscar-winner and meme star Leonardo DiCaprio is reportedly in final-stage talks to play evangelist cult leader Jim Jones — and with the families of Jonestown victims still alive all across the Bay Area, this could be cause for some fresh heartache and controversy.
SF News Bay Area Ponzi Schemer Accused In Multi-Billion-Dollar Fraud Gets Sentenced to 30 Years One half of a Martinez couple who pleaded guilty last year in what's been described as the "biggest criminal fraud scheme in the history of the Eastern District of California" has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
SF Politics Haney Introducing Measure to Apologize to Chinese Community, Hopes to Make It More Than Symbolic After Los Angeles, San Jose, and Antioch have issued similar apologies for their historical mistreatment of the Chinese-American community, Supervisor Matt Haney wants one from SF, possibly with reparations.
SF Politics Boudin’s Former Prosecutor Continues Fuming Over Case Where DA Didn't Fight Insanity Plea One of the prosecutors who left the DA’s office, and made a big stink to the press about doing so, continues to air complaints about a homicide case she prosecuted where Boudin ended up relenting to an insanity plea from the suspect.