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Apartment Fire on Nob Hill Leaves One Injured
An early morning fire left one person injured on Nob Hill Monday, and it's unclear how badly they were injured.
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Monday Morning Headlines: Incoming Storm Tuesday
Another atmospheric river is coming our way; BART is blaming Sunday's massive service meltdown on a street-level fire; and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is rumored to be mulling retirement.
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BART Service Through Transbay Tube Resumes After Fire-Damaged Cables Cause Major Sunday Disruption
An alert was sent out to riders Sunday that BART service was paused in the Transbay Tube due to communication issues, along with information on transbay bus lines, leading to long waits for shuttles throughout Sunday evening.
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F1 Event Draws 50,000 to Marina, Leads to Property Damage, Public Urination Complaints
San Francisco’s Marina Boulevard was turned into a demo racetrack Saturday as a Formula 1 car and other vehicles raced along the waterfront for a brief eight-tenths-of-a-mile stretch, drawing around 50,000 spectators who reportedly trashed the Marina District on their way out.
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Newsom Unveils New San Quentin Learning Center in First Phase of Transformation Project
Governor Newsom celebrated the launch of a new educational complex at San Quentin Friday featuring a media center, cafe, library, classrooms, and a reentry center, in the first of a series of projects transforming the once notorious prison into a leading-edge rehabilitation center.
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Remaining Three Victims ID'd In Castle Peak Avalanche as All Nine Bodies Are Recovered From Mountain
The three victims who remained unidentified last week in the avalanche tragedy near Lake Tahoe, all back-country skiing guides, have now been identified.
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Sunday Links: Ninety-Five Percent of Oakland Teachers Vote to Authorize Strike
A body that was found in Napa County is believed to be connected to the kidnapping of a Sikh man in the Central Valley; cartel violence has taken over Puerto Vallarta; and Oakland’s teachers’ union is demanding a 12% pay increase as 95% of educators voted to strike.
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SF Towing Company Owner Sentenced to Federal Prison for Torching Rivals’ Trucks
A 29-year-old towing company owner was sentenced to five years in federal prison for orchestrating a plan to set the trucks of four rival companies on fire, along with two years for submitting fraudulent car insurance claims, with state welfare fraud charges pending.
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Field Notes: BART Poetry, Revolutionary Black Panther Art, and from Rural Alaska to the Super Bowl
This week: The Dipsea Trail, a crow take-over, award-winning BART poem, and site-specific sculptural CD art. Plus, a beloved pop-up bakery gets its own space, a local violinist shines at the Super Bowl, and Black Panther Emory Douglas’s collage images.
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Saturday Links: Two Skiers Die in Separate Incidents at Lake Tahoe’s Heavenly Resort
SFUSD is expected to announce preliminary layoffs for 42 employees; a celebration of life for Betty Reid Soskin, who died in December at 104, is set to take place in Oakland March 1; and two skiers died in separate incidents at Heavenly Resort in Lake Tahoe Friday.
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Day Around the Bay: Oakland to Celebrate Black History Month With Black Joy Parade
MAHA proponents are turning against RFK Jr. after Trump ordered a boost in the production of weedkiller glyphosate; authorities are investigating the ski guide company involved in the deadly Lake Tahoe avalanche; and Oakland’s ninth annual Black Joy Parade takes place Sunday.
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Supervisor Mahmood Wants to Establish a ‘Theater Arts District’ to Gussy Up Mid-Market
It's no secret that SF’s Mid-Market home to many Broadway theaters and concert venues can be a little rough around the edges, so the district's Supervisor Bilal Mahmood hopes to jazz it up as a “theater arts district.”
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Trump Administration Insists It Won’t Turn Shuttered FCI Dublin Into an ICE Detention Facility, But Says So in Very Fishy Terms
The notorious and scandal-tainted former federal women’s prison known as FCI Dublin was rumored to be in the Trump administration’s crosshairs to make it an ICE holding pen, but the administration claims it has no such plans.
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Emperor Norton’s Boozeland Gets a Facelift With Colorful New Neon Sign
A new custom new neon creation gussies up the Larkin Street façade of the popular Tenderloin bar Emperor Norton’s Boozeland, with a neon design that’s actually based on the signature of Emperor Norton himself.
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SF Police Car Crashes Into Bystander Vehicle During Chase, Injuring Driver
There was a crash early Friday morning at the edge of Pacific Heights in which an SFPD vehicle collided with a car while it was chasing down a different vehicle.
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Arrest Made In Rincon Hill Killing of East Bay Rapper After Super Bowl
San Francisco police have made an arrest in the February 9 shooting of Bay Area rapper Curnal, aka Keonte Antonio Deshawn Woods, on Harrison Street in Rincon Hill.
Business & Tech
Who’da Thought? Tesla Owners Acting Like Real Jerks at Cow Hollow 24-Hour Charging Station
A new 24-hour Tesla charging station in Cow Hollow has become a late-night den of loud music, line-cutting, and Tesla bro arguments, and now the station's neighbors are getting exasperated.
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Likely Illegal Fence Near Daly City Beach Comes Down Today
A fence that was put up by a convicted felon who claims ownership rights to the property, on a beachfront site in Daly City, is being dismantled today, according to a county supervisor.
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Bar Part Time Guys Taking Over Bissap Baobab Space, Will Open Nightclub There
The natural wine bar with a nightly dance party that took the Mission by storm in the last couple years is expanding in the neighborhood with a second venue, which will be a nightclub with food and cocktails.
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$590M In State Loan Funds Come Through For Struggling BART and Muni Systems
It's a bit less than what was promised last year, but Governor Gavin Newsom has signed off on a $590 million loan package for Bay Area transit agencies, which have been facing serious budget problems since the pandemic.
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Six Women Who Loved the Outdoors Identified as Victims In Avalanche
Six of the nine victims' names have now been released from Tuesday's avalanche tragedy in Nevada County, and they were a group of women who'd bonded over their love of skiing and the outdoors.
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Friday Morning Constitutional: Supreme Court Kills Trump Tariffs
The Supreme Court has struck down Trump's sweeping tariffs in a 6-3 decision; Fremont police say a dog bite prompted an unintentional officer-involved shooting; and a lecture by Bari Weiss has been canceled at UCLA.
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Day Around the Bay: Richmond’s Own Alysa Liu Wins Figure Skating Gold, Bay Area Loses Its Mind
They caught the guy who allegedly stole Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s SUV; Yosemite National Park is totally closed because of extreme winter weather; and Richmond’s Alysa Liu won the Women's Single Skating gold medal.
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K-Pop Mega-Star RM of BTS Is Getting an Art Exhibition at SFMOMA This Coming October
Run BTS fans run, as 200 works from the personal collection of BTS rapper and songwriter RM are coming to the SFMOMA this October, in the only gallery display the South Korean pop superstar will have in the US.
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The Wait Is Ending! Bay Lights Will Officially Be Re-Lit on Friday, March 20
Our three-year-long regional loss of the beloved Bay Lights is finally coming to an end, as the lights will be officially re-lit and razzle-dazzling the Bay Bridge again on Friday, March 20.