SF News Accused Molester and Former Neurosurgeon James Kohut Found Dead In Santa Cruz Jail Cell A 59-year-old man who's been jailed since 2017 on child sex-abuse charges along with two female accomplices appears to have taken his own life while in a Santa Cruz County Jail cell.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Could SCOTUS Allow For 'Faithless Electors'? The A's get some Newsom love, a female Stanford student reports getting drugged at a party, and a pedestrian was killed on I-580 in Richmond.
SF News Three-Vehicle Crash On Divisadero Injures Five A multi-vehicle crash on Divisadero Street Sunday evening sent five people to the hospital, one of them with life-threatening injuries.
SF News One-Acre Brush Fire Near Lake Merced Sends Smoke Over SF A small vegetation fire broke out Sunday morning near Lake Merced that prompted alerts and a quick response from the San Francisco Fire Department.
SF News Toll and Reservation Plan For 'World's Crookedest Street' Vetoed By Newsom Saturday Night Last month, SF Officials passed (in assembly and senate) a bill that would create a “toll and reservation plan” for visitors who wished to snake down the world-famous section of Lombard Street. Newsom, however, vetoed the bill late last night.
SF News Missing Utah CEO and Tech Entrepreneur Found Dead Inside Her Rental Car When Utah tech entrepreneur and “force for good” Erin Valenti went missing in San Jose Monday, friends and family hoped for the best, but yesterday their worst fears came true: A body inside the back of a parked vehicle near San Jose’s Bose Lane was identified as hers.
SF News Sunday Links: SF SPCA's Mission Campus To Start Reduce-Cost Walk-In Clinics, Exams Starting At $25 SF SPCA's Mission Campus will offer $25 pet exams on Tuesdays, Fleet Week is coming to a close today, a protest at SFO against Turkish Airlines blocked ticket counters yesterday, and more Sunday links.
SF News Proposed Extension Of Relocation Benefits Seeks To Help 'Post-Agreement' Treasure Island Residents A massive multi-billion-dollar redevelopment of Treasure Island, which was agreed on in June of 2011, threatens to displace hundreds who call the man-made island home. However, newly proposed extensions of certain relocation benefits could help some residents sleep well at night.
SF News Two Humpback Whales Spotted Near Golden Gate Bridge, Raising Concerns About 'Cetacean Safety' During Fleet Week As maritime vessels continue to flood the waters off San Francisco for Fleet Week, marine mammal experts caution those piloting these ships to keep a keen eye out for other ocean-going behemoths — like, for example, two recently spotted humpback whales.
SF News Saturday Links: 99 Percent Of Bay Area PG&E Customer Accounts Turned Back On 99 percent of Bay Area PG&E customer accounts are now back on, a mural near the Van Ness Muni station revealed as an eight-story-tall baby cop, BUILT BY GIRLS innovation summit happening today, and more Saturday links.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sup. Vallie Brown Hounded By Eviction Charge Sup. Vallie Brown has an owner move-in eviction skeleton in the closet, Visa and Mastercard dump Facebook's crypto product, and it sure looks like an SFPD officer lied under oath about a severe beating.
SF News SF Offered to Buy PG&E’s Local Power Lines for $2.5 Billion, Beleaguered Utility Turned It Down As news breaks that PG&E executives threw a ritzy Sonoma winery bash on the eve of the blackouts, we also learn the company rejected a multibillion-dollar offer from City Hall to buy their local lines.
SF Politics Another Giuliani Associate Arrested in SF Over Alleged Marijuana Scheme The Ukraine scandal comes to San Francisco (and Livermore!), as Giuliani associate Andrey Kukushkin was arrested by the FBI for his alleged role in a marijuana bribery scheme.
SF News Power Begins Coming Back On In Bay Area As Winds Die Down As of early Friday morning, PG&E was turning the power back on for much of the Bay Area, however over 50,000 homes and business are still without power in Sonoma and Napa.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Steve Kerr Responds to Trump Calling Him a ‘Scared Little Boy’ Steve Kerr gets philosophical over Trump's tirade at him, 'Moulin Rouge' will be replacing 'Hamilton' at the Orpheum, and Github employees are furious that the company is working with ICE.
SF News Gas Prices Now Steady At $4-Plus A Gallon In The Bay Area, Outrage Ensues With gas prices hovering in the low-$4 range, with premium fuel regularly coming it at cents away from $5, prepare yourself for more crowded BART commutes and sidewalks crisscrossed with electric scooters in the days to come.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grass Fire Hits San Bruno Mountain A fire on the mountain in Brisbane, a school shooting scare in San Jose, and Trader Joe’s keeps pushing for a Hayes Valley location.
SF News The PG&E Shut-Offs Are Done, But It Could Be Five Days Until Power is Restored There will be no more new outages, PG&E declares, though it may take until Tuesday for the utility to turn everyone’s electricity back on.
SF News PG&E’s Phase Two Outages Underway, as Many as Two Million Are Without Power Swaths of Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo Counties lost power last night, but a Moraga wildfire reminds us that the threat of fires is indeed real.
SF News Thursday Morning What’s Up: The Blue Angels Will Roar Loudly, Starting Today Fleet Week’s practice flights start today, Juul lobbyists are getting blacklisted, and an SF mansion on sale is asking the most expensive price the city’s ever seen.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Building Gets Security Barricades The San Francisco PG&E Building got barricades, its Oroville branch got egged, and the Mezzanine has declared bankruptcy.
Business & Tech Apple’s AirPods Die Within Two Years, Can’t Be Fixed, Cause Environmental Damage There’s another reason to loathe those $159 AirPods — a Washington Post investigation finds they have a very temporary shelf life, and are likely to end up as environmental waste.
SF News Missing Swimmer's Body Found, Identified As San Jose Woman The body of the 24-year-old woman who was swept out to sea Friday after attempting a swim near Land's End has been recovered and identified.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whoa! El Rio Almost Closed This Summer, but Was Saved by a Housing Nonprofit The nightlife scene dodged a bullet as El Rio was at serious risk of shutting down in recent months, but thanks to a city program, Carmen Miranda’s huge head is not going anywhere.
SF News PG&E Delays Shutoffs for Heavily Populated Parts of Bay Area; Turning Power Back On Could Take Days PG&E has said it will be delaying planned power outages for several Bay Area counties until 8 p.m. Wednesday.
