The verdict is in, at least two-thirds of one, for Elizabeth Holmes, and while she'll surely appeal, some time in the clink looks fairly inevitable for the disgraced entrepreneur.
SF now has the third-highest COVID transmission rate in all of California, Apple just became the first U.S. company worth $3 trillion, and the NYT had a piece ready to publish today on the "Epic Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes."
A detailed analysis of property crime in Bay Area cities shows that San Jose and Berkeley have seen property crime decrease over the last two years, and while many Bay Area cities saw an increase in 2021, thefts are still down double-digit percentages compared to 2019.
A 52-year-old man was pistol-whipped and robbed of his wallet, watch, and cellphone on New Year's Eve in the Fillmore District.
An Uber driver who’d missed rental car payments had his vehicle reported stolen, and San Roman police allowed their K-9 to maul him badly, in an incident that begs ethical issues of gig car rental companies and police use of force.
As if they knew it was New Year's Day and almost time to raise another brood of chicks, longtime falcon lovers Annie and Grinnell reunited and were observed on camera performing courtship behavior for the first time since Grinnell's November return to the nest following a fight with a rival.
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The big news of Elizabeth Holmes’ Theranos fraud trial today is not entirely big news yet, just another delay, but the flip side of the jury being deadlocked on three counts means they will render a verdict on the other eight.
A nine-month-old Frenchie named Rosie has reportedly been returned to her family, though it's not yet clear whether someone collected the $10,000 reward being offered.
A New Year's Eve shooting became San Francisco's 56th homicide of the year, marking an uptick in the homicide rate seen in recent years.
A police pursuit yielded a grisly discovery Sunday afternoon, after a high-speed chase between Milpitas and Fremont ended with a murder victim’s body being found in the back of her own stolen car.
The first days of the new year look depressingly similar to the first days of last year, with COVID cases once again surging and hospitals filling up from a spike in holiday-season infections.
Oakland's first homicide of the year happened on New Year's Day, Willie Brown calls London Breed's Tenderloin tough talk "very bold" and "grandmotherish," and California is launching a unique study of COVID antibody prevalence across the state's diverse population.
Speculation is a thing of the past when one questions if Bay Area residents relocated throughout the pandemic. In fact, the Wall Street Journal published the findings of a new report from University
On Saturday, Twitter (at long last) suspended the misinformation-spewing Georgia GOP Representative's main handle, citing Marjorie Taylor Greene's most-followed Twitter account — “@mtgreenee” — was removed "for repeated violations of Twitter’s COVID-19 misinformation policy."
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Nine-month-old Rosie, a merle French bulldog, was taken from her owner around 10 a.m. Saturday near Broderick and Beach streets in SF's Marina District; and the dog has since been recovered.
One of the longest-running Japanese businesses in the city is set to close later this month, expect king tides around the Bay Area today until early tomorrow, and some dozen skaters (wearing not all that much) competed in San Francisco's "Polar Bear Skate'' Saturday.
UCSF Department of Medicine Chair Dr. Bob Wachter — who has become a touchstone on Twitter for understanding the state of the COVID-19 health crisis — noted that the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 has been steadily rising, though it’s not likely to overwhelm SF hospitals.
The SF Fire Department Chief, Jeanine Nicholson, tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week, it looks like the Bay Area's newest native was born in Antioch, and the record-setting wildfires burning through Colorado are now responsible for destroying at least 1,000 homes.
A large elephant seal was wrangled from a parking lot near Point Reyes, San Francisco has adopted the CDC's shorter quarantine protocols, and Betty White has died at 99 years old.
We aren't out of the drought yet, and we won't be unless January, February, and March are as ridiculously rainy as December was. But most of California and the Bay Area is officially out of 'exceptional drought' status.
Fasten your seat belts for a wild, 11-minute California Highway Patrol high-speed car chase video, which ends with the suspect absconding into the bay, but lo, this tactic proves unsuccessful.
KTVU anchor Frank Somerville was arrested Thursday night after allegedly rear-ending a car in a downtown Oakland intersection and then pushing that car into a pole.
With the new year comes a new hike in bridge tolls on seven state-owned bridges in the Bay Area. And this hike will put rush-hour tolls on the Bay Bridge at a whopping $8 per car — a 167% increase from the $3 we were paying in 2003.
Tensions are high between cannabis dispensaries and the SF police department, after cops seemingly watched a dispensary get robbed without taking action, but the Department of Police Accountability says it's launching a probe.
The search for missing Tahoe resident and Northstar employee Rory Angelotta has been suspended, Oakland police made a second arrest in a murder by Lake Merritt, and a 400-person NYE yacht party in the Bay has local experts worried.
