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Arrest Made In Fatal Hunters Point Shooting
The SFPD on Wednesday announced an arrest in connection with a shooting last week that left a woman in Hunters Point dead.
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SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Yelp Adds a Little COVID-19 Widget to List Restaurants’ Safety Precautions
The voluntary listing of precautions, like whether they provide hand sanitizer, is a new feature that restaurants can list on their Yelp page if they choose to.
Business & Tech
Facebook Is — A Little Late — Banning the Term 'Boogaloo' and Shutting Down Affiliated Groups
Facebook seems to be learning about these fringe groups along with the rest of the country in the wake of several violent incidents — including two fatal shootings in Oakland and Santa Cruz.
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Homeless Woman Allegedly Pushes Man Onto BART Tracks In Front of Oncoming Train, And He Narrowly Escapes
A woman identified as a transient who had been sleeping on a bench nearby is accused of attempted murder after allegedly shoving a man onto the BART tracks at Downtown Berkeley Station Monday night.
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Outbreak at San Quentin Leads to 46 COVID Cases Among Inmates; Activists Call For More Releases
Prison outbreaks of COVID-19 have been widespread nationwide, and San Quentin State Prison in Marin County is the latest to see one. To date, 46 inmates have tested positive, and it's unclear how many prison employees have been impacted as well.
Arts & Entertainment
Blue Whales Make Rare Appearance Off San Francisco Coast, Prompting Warning For Ships
The Northern California coast tends to get its fair share of sightings of humpback whales and gray whales, but the largest mammals on earth, blue whales, don't do swim-bys quite so often as other species. This year, all rules are out the window.
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Humpday Headlines: Four Die In Carquinez Bridge Crash
The SF Board of Supervisors is putting a new tax on the ballot aimed at overpaid CEOs, the memorial service for the slain Santa Cruz deputy is today, and four people died in a horrific SUV crash last night in Crockett.
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Santa Cruz Shooter Charged Along With 'Boogaloo Movement' Accomplice In Oakland Shooting Of Federal Officers
Once again, a disturbing corner of the internet has popped into mainstream headlines by way of two men who were convinced a civil war is looming, and that members of law enforcement need to be killed.
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Day Around the Bay: Healdsburg Mayor Resigns Over Police Comments
A San Francisco woman says she was racially profiled at a Safeway, a mountain lion was spotted wandering the city, and the family of Oscar Grant is calling for the resignation of BART director Debora Allen.
Bay Area Sports
Now the NFL Is Practically Begging Teams to Sign Colin Kaepernick
The bandwagon has done a sudden 180 on national anthem kneeling protests, and the head of the NFL says he would “encourage” a team to bring Kaep back.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Update: SF Supervisors Approve Phase 2 Variance to Reopen Bars In July
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors is considering seeking a variance from the state in order to give the county health officer more leeway in including certain types of businesses in the upcoming phases of reopening.
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Uber Passenger Arrested for Battery and Carjacking After Driver Pulls Off Freeway to Pick Up Another Fare
Some key details are a little unclear, but a Belmont man was arrested Friday night in what police are saying was an argument over an itinerary change that led to a violent exchange between an Uber passenger and a driver.
SF Politics
SF District Attorney to Stop Filing Charges In Cases That Rely on Testimony From Problematic Cops
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced a new policy on Monday aimed at correcting the wrongs of over-policing and unjust prosecutions of people of color.
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Significant Explosion Turns Stinson Beach Into 'Warzone,' Temporarily Closes Highway 1
An unexplained explosion Tuesday morning blew the front off of a building on the main drag in Stinson Beach, shook the town like an earthquake, and caused a fire that spread to neighboring businesses.
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Sheriff Releases Video Footage Of Woman Shot By Officers In Half Moon Bay
The woman who was reported to have shot at San Mateo County sheriff's deputies with a shotgun, and who was then fatally shot by deputies herself on May 5 in Half Moon Bay, has been identified as 56-year-old Sandra Lee Harmon.
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Inexpensive Steroid Is First Drug Proven to Reduce COVID Mortality Rates
In the race to find effective treatments for COVID-19, a team at the University of Oxford has found that a low-cost — or as one BBC commentator put it "cheap-as-chips" — steroid called dexamethasone has proven to reduce deaths by a third among patients on ventilators.
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Tuesday Morning Topline: PG&E to Plead Guilty to 84 Counts of Manslaughter
PG&E is entering a guilty plea in Butte County court today, SF Mayor London Breed is introducing a new business tax reform measure, and the SFPD says it will stop releasing most booking photos.
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Day Around the Bay: Berkeley to Rename Two Elementary Schools In Honor of BLM
Accused Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo has reportedly agreed to a plea deal, Matt Haney questions why Caltrans has to remove "Black Lives Matter" from the Bay Bridge, and Berkeley is renaming its Jefferson and Washington elementary schools.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Dobbs Ferry Closes Permanently in Hayes Valley; Walzwerk Closes After 21 Years
There are two more permanent restaurant closures to rack up in SF. One is the 21-year-old East German restaurant Walzwerk in the Mission, and the other is nine-year-old Dobbs Ferry in Hayes Valley.
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Pandemic Updates: Newsom Touts Low Statewide 'Percent-Positive' Figure
Today in COVID-19 news around the Bay Area and the state, San Francisco recorded two new deaths over the weekend, the daily rate of new cases across the region has remained steady for a month, and Governor Newsom warns of upticks as the economy reopens.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
Possible Arson Attempts Hit Travis Kalanick’s Ghost Kitchen
Travis Kalanick’s follow-up to Uber, a caboodle of secretive ghost kitchens in SoMa, suffered a break-in and a fire last week.
SF Politics
Bay Area Officials and Lawmakers React to Stunning Supreme Court Decision on LGBTQ Rights
In many ways, the decision announced today by a Supreme Court with a 5-4 conservative majority marks the most significant legal milestone yet for LGTBQ people. Not everyone wants or needs to get married, but virtually everyone needs to find employment.
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Oakland Residents Divided On Saving/Euthanizing Aggressive Wild Turkey In Rose Garden
The park has been closed by the city out of concerns for peoples' safety, and the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved a "depredation" permit that would allow the city to humanely euthanize the bird if its behavior does not change.
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LA Public Health Officials Failed to Inform Airline Passengers of COVID-Positive Case On JFK-LAX Flight in March
In a pair of cases of systemic failure in the California public health system, passengers on two flights into LAX in March — and the airlines themselves — were not alerted to the fact that someone on board a long-haul flight had tested positive for COVID-19 after landing.
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Monday Morning Headlines: Supreme Court Suprises With LGBT Protections
A suspect stole a construction vehicle and drove it across the Bay Bridge, Oakland police are seeking around 100 suspects in some Friday night vandalism, and SCOTUS has ruled that LGBTQ people deserve job protections under Title VII.