Bay Area Sports Day Around the Bay: Steph Curry Likely Back In Game On Thursday A bald eagle hatched at the SF Zoo is alive and well in the wild at age 20, the Saturday Burlingame sidewalk collision gets a new detail, Mission bar Amnesia went out with a bang on Saturday, and Waymo gets $2.5B in outside investment.
SF News DA's Office Will Not Be Charging 20-Year-Old Suspect Who Video'd Attack On Asian Man The 20-year-old San Francisco man arrested following the February 22 attack on a 68-year-old Asian man — and the one who recorded the incident on his cellphone and can apparently be heard saying "I hate Asians" — will face "restorative justice."
SF News Adachi-Chasing Journalist Gets $369,000 SFPD Settlement Over Sledgehammer Raid Freelance journalist Bryan Carmody sold details of Jeff Adachi’s death report for $2,500 a pop, and now he’s sledgehammered out a $369,000 settlement with SFPD over the raid of his home.
SF News Anticipating First Local Cases, SF Opens Public Coronavirus Testing Lab Unfortunately for the local paranoiac community including myself, there will be no on-demand testing for the coronavirus at the new SF facility, but test turnaround time will go down to one or two days from seven.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Healdsburg Dining Destination Cyrus To Be Revived In Geyserville After multiple promises to reopen and some false starts, chef Douglas Keane has just inked a deal to reopen his acclaimed Cyrus restaurant in new digs near its original Healdsburg location.
SF News Virus Death Toll Hits Six In Washington State; New Cases In Sonoma and Santa Clara Counties All of the deaths from the coronavirus so far in the U.S. — now a total of six — have occurred in Washington State, suggesting that the undetected hot spot there is further along in the virus's cycle than elsewhere.
SF News SFPD Arrests 51-Year-Old Suspect In Unprovoked Stabbing at Seventh and Market An arrest has been made in a case involving a hunched-over shady character who was seen in surveillance video apparently randomly stabbing someone in the back of the leg on Market Street.
SF News Pedestrian Fatally Struck Near Union Square By DPW Worker A Department of Public Works street cleaner, driving in a city-owned pickup truck, fatally struck a 67-year-old woman at the intersection of Geary and Taylor streets Sunday morning.
SF News Two Healthcare Workers From Vacaville Facility Likely Infected By Coronavirus Patient Health officials in Solano County announced Sunday that two healthcare workers at the NorthBay VacaValley Hospital are being treated as presumptive positive cases for the coronavirus after their exposure to a female patient in recent weeks.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Second Arrest Made In Bayview Hate Case More Diamond Princess cruise evacuees are getting released from quarantine in Solano County today, presidential candidates are making final sweeps through California before Super Tuesday, and a second suspect turned himself in the robbery and hate attack on an elderly Asian man collecting cans.
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Arts & Entertainment Scenes From Saturday's 'A March to Remember & Reignite Hope' Display in The Castro Juanita MORE!, San Francisco's indefatigable drag matriarch, walked down The Castro — flanked by locals and a sea of sequined regalia — yesterday afternoon to lay wreaths down at both defunct and thriving queer businesses, spotlighting the need to safeguard SF's queer legacy and culture.
SF News Four-Alarm Fire Breaks Out at India Basin Warehouse, No Injuries Reported A four-alarm fire enveloped an India Basin warehouse last night, according to the San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD). The blaze was later contained by 11:35 p.m., but the charred warehouse eventually collapsed and an adjacent restaurant, Bonanza, sustained substantial damage.
SF News Sunday Links: Driver Intentionally Hits Four Teens in Burlingame A driver allegedly drove his SUV onto a sidewalk in Burlingame to strike four teenagers, Bay Area Costco stores are running low — or completely out of — essentials like bottled water and toilet paper as coronavirus fears grow, and the founder of Trader Joe's, Joe Coulombe, died Friday at 89.
SF News Facebook Announces Funding for Ad Outreach to Help SF's Struggling Chinatown Businesses According to some anecdotal reports, foot traffic in SF's Chinatown is down over 50 percent because of concerns over the coronavirus. But the Eye of Sauron-like social media giant hopes to turn that around by helping those affected businesses create and run ads to buffer dwindling sales.
SF News Boudin to Stop Prosecuting for Contraband Seized at Traffic Stops, End Sentence Enhancements SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin launched a bevy of new policy directives — among them the end of charging defendants for contraband procured during "pretextual" traffic stops — yesterday, aimed at reducing racial imbalances in our criminal justice system and mass incarceration.
SF News Saturday Links: Business in Chinatown Continues to Slump Over Coronavirus Scares Chinatown eateries are still feeling the squeeze from the novel coronavirus as foot traffic in the area continues to slow, Oakland police have made a second arrest in an El Cerrito robbery, and two new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Mexico.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Supervisor Claims Discrimination at SF Cigar Bar Two more Diamond Princess evacuees have the coronavirus, 'The Amazing Race' has suspended filming because of the virus, and SF Supe Shamann Walton says a very rude hostess at a downtown cigar bar discriminated against him and some friends.
SF News A Second Case Of Coronavirus With Unknown Origin Confirmed In Santa Clara County Terrifying! A second case of "community transmission" of the Wuhan coronavirus has now been confirmed in Santa Clara County, marking the first two U.S. instances — both in the Bay Area — of an infection with no discernible connection to a traveler returned from China.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Bay Area Food: SF Gets a German Bakery In NoPa Hong Kong Lounge II lives on in SoMa; Prairie is pivoting with more live-fire cooking and a new nightly, one-seating prix fixe; and SF is getting a German bakery in SoMa, Hahdough, which debuts on Sunday.
SF News Valencia Street Salvation Army Poised to Become Homeless Shelter, But Residents Remain Split A new Hummingbird Place homeless drop-in center could spring up at Valencia Street’s current Salvation Army Mission Corps Community Center, and while some neighbors are skeptical, the opposition is nowhere near as fierce as the Embarcadero Navigation Center's was.
Arts & Entertainment Of Course This $10M St. Regis Condo Has a 'Cuddle Puddle Room' File under Condo Price Sadness: A combined, double-unit condo on the 25th floor of the St. Regis Residences in downtown SF has hit the market for $9.8 million, and it features only two bedrooms but an office with a view, a media room, and a "cuddle puddle room" with sweeping views of the city.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ferry Building's MarketBar to Close After 17 Years It's a touristy, expense-account-heavy spot for lunches and early dinners, but MarketBar to be sure will be missed by many after establishing its place at one corner of the Ferry Building over two decades.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Pushes Again For Safe-Injection Sites Mayor London Breed and District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney are both backing a new local ordinance that would allow permitting for non-profits to open safe-injection sites in San Francisco — something that still needs the blessing of statewide legislation before it can happen.
SF News Multi-Vehicle Crash Involving Amazon Prime Truck Splits Vehicle In Two In Solano County A horrific looking crash happened Friday morning on I-80 in Dixon involving two big rigs and multiple vehicles — with one vehicle ending up split in two. It's not yet clear how many injuries there are.
