Elderly driver Mary Lau will have to explain what happened in the 2024 West Portal crash that killed a family of four in two civil lawsuits filed by relatives of the family last year, and jurors will determine monetary damages, following Lau’s sentence in criminal court last Friday.
A former dishwasher at the French Laundry in Yountville has filed a lawsuit on behalf of 50 other employees alleging that the restaurant routinely violates state law around mandatory break times and resting facilities, and that it also failed to pay the minimum wage or overtime.
For the second time in four months, a false-alarm alert about an earthquake was triggered in Northern California, and this was actually multiple alerts, but this time there thankfully were no loud alarms on cellphones rattling Bay Area residents awake.
A witness at SFO Sunday filed a complaint that SFPD officers violated sanctuary laws by shielding ICE agents in plainclothes from bystanders who were asking them to identify themselves, as the ICE agents attempted to restrain a woman being deported with her young daughter.
California voters are showing a "historically high lack of awareness" of the governor's race; a planned debate between the candidates tonight was canceled; and Foster City continues to be under a ransomware attack.
Two and a half years after the death of 27-year-old product designer Kimberly Wong in her Presidio Heights apartment, her boyfriend Scott Fisher was set to go on trial this week for her murder. But on Monday, he changed his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
A person was stabbed in the Civic Center area Monday; the immigration court in SF just removed some 500 people "in absentia"; and Markwayne Mullin has been confirmed as the new DHS secretary.
A new study found that about 16% of people who died from COVID-19 in the first two years of the pandemic weren’t counted in the official US tally, totalling about 155,000. This is on top of the 840,000 officially reported deaths, as many of these died outside of hospitals.
The home on Monterey Boulevard in SF's Westwood Highlands where investigators believe a mother killed her husband and two daughters before taking her own life last October is now up for sale.
The SF Giants will face off with the New York Yankees on Opening Day Wednesday, and fans who aren’t attending the game at Oracle Park will need to subscribe to Netflix to watch, plus a slew of other streaming channels throughout the season.
Maybe it's indicative of larger troubles and maybe it's just a sign of a simple mistake or miscommunication that, unluckily, was caught on camera and went viral. But Hamburger Project in the Mission couldn't catch a break this past weekend.
True to form as a Trump-loving Republican sheriff, and likely just trying to court attention from Fox News and Trump himself, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seized 650,000 ballots that were cast in his county in November, claiming they need to be recounted.
Investigators with the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office are investigating a fatal stabbing in a quiet neighborhood in Lafayette over the weekend, and a 35-year-old suspect was taken into custody.
Denise Huskins, the Vallejo woman whose 2015 kidnapping and sexual assault case was featured in Netflix’s 'American Nightmare,' is pushing for changes to state law after learning her assailant was given access to explicit evidence from her case during his trial.
ICE agents are not be getting deployed at SFO as they are at other airports to assist TSA agents amid the partial government shutdown, but they were there on Sunday anyway, conducting an arrest.
One dog died and two residents were displaced in a Bayview house fire Sunday; 12 people were displaced by a fire on Guerrero Street; and Steph Curry may make it back to play for the last few games of the Warriors' season.
SFPD announced Friday that officers arrested a Walnut Creek driver suspected of fatally striking a two-year-old in Mission Bay in late February, as well as a driver from Mountain View accused of killing a man in North Beach in early March.
A judge dismissed a sexual abuse lawsuit against Sam Altman by his sister but said she could refile under a different statute; kids entertainer Ms. Rachel aims to free children from ICE detention centers; and Trump may send ICE to airports, as 400 TSA agents have quit.
SF Fire Department and PG&E crews entered residences in Bernal Heights Saturday after receiving reports of a possible gas leak and found a man unconscious — possibly from carbon monoxide poisoning, and he died at the scene after receiving emergency medical aid.
The jury in a lawsuit over Elon Musk’s 2022 takeover of Twitter found he misled investors by claiming he might walk away over the platform’s bot estimates, prompting some to sell during a downturn before he ultimately went through with the original deal — but fraud claims were dropped.
A San Francisco judge sentenced the elderly driver who killed a young family of four in West Portal in 2024 to two years of probation, 200 hours of mandatory community service, and revoked her license for three years, and family members our outraged by the light sentence.
An Oakland 911 dispatcher was honored for helping a couple deliver their baby over the phone; scammers are creating AI-generated MAGA thirst traps to lure conservative men over to paid OnlyFans accounts; and Russian River Brewing Company debuted this year’s Pliny the Younger Friday.
The SF Zoo is laying off an unspecified number of employees amid financial challenges; 90,000 bottles of children's liquid ibuprofen have been recalled; and police arrested a Walnut Creek woman in the Mission Bay crash that killed a toddler
While the story is developing, PG&E shut off power for an estimated 7,400 customers in San Francisco Friday, including the beleaguered Sunset District, as the SF Emergency Management Department warned residents Thursday that SF's record-breaking heat wave could put a strain on the grid.
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