SF News CHP Pursues Vehicle That Went 160 MPH in Chase That Went Both Ways Across Bay Bridge, Suspects Still Get Away California Highway Patrol officers went on a wild ride across the Bay Tuesday night, pursuing a vehicle that reached speeds of 160 miles per hour in a chase that went from Oakland to SF and then to Hayward, though the five suspects are still at large.
Business & Tech Get Ready for Uber Robotaxis to Start Rolling In SF Next Year In partnership with an electric car company and an autonomous tech company, Uber is getting back into the robotaxi business, ten years after its first rushed attempt to put autonomous vehicles on the road.
SF News Humpday Headlines: North Bay Man Charged In Homophobic Attack at Bowling Alley A Cloverdale man has been charged after an apparent hate crime incident at a Rohnert Park bowling alley; Nvidia becomes the world's first $5 trillion company; and Atherton is no longer the country's priciest zip code.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Finally Gets an Inspector General, and It’s Mohammed Nuru’s Prosecutor Sergey Brin’s blimp showed up in the SF skies again today; California Democrats are salivating to run for the new districts Prop 50 could create; and SF City Hall named its new Inspector General, who’s Mohammed Nuru’s prosecutor.
SF Politics More Sheng Thao Fallout: San Leandro City Councilmember Charged With Bribery, Lying to FBI There’s more dirty laundry coming out in the whole Sheng Thao mess, as San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo faces federal charges for taking bribes and kickbacks, and lying to the FBI about a $2,000 envelope of cash.
SF News Witness Describes Humiliation, Bounced Paychecks That Led to Killing of Santa Cruz Tech CEO and Cannabis Farm Owner The four men accused in the October 2019 murder of Tushar Atre in Santa Cruz are all facing trial or have already faced trial this year, six full years after the crime.
SF News Notorious New Year’s Eve DUI Hit-and-Run Suspect Troy McAlister Will Face Trial, Won’t Get Diversion After a month-long firestorm that a hit-and-run suspect accused of killing two women while driving on meth could get a diversion program instead of facing trial, an SF Superior Court judge just ruled the case will indeed go to trial.
SF News Three Young Men Arrested In Connection With July Homicide Near Fisherman's Wharf Three men, ranging in age from 19 to 22, have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of another man in early July near SF's Fisherman's Wharf.
SF News Update: Supervisors Pass North Beach Zoning Changes That Have Neighborhood Small Businesses Up in Arms North Beach’s supervisor Danny Sauter just passed legislation allowing storefronts to merge in that neighborhood, supposedly to fight vacancies. Business owners wonder what he’s talking about, pointing out one of the city’s lowest vacancy rates.
SF News Sexual Assault of Child Reported In Golden Gate Park Restroom San Francisco police are investigating a reported sexual battery or sexual assault of a child in a restroom near the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park on Thursday.
SF Politics Bonta and Newsom Call Out Heartlessness of Trump Administration In Announcing Lawsuit Over SNAP Benefits California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Tuesday announced his 45th lawsuit against the Trump administration so far this year, joining two dozen states in suing the USDA for withholding SNAP benefits from low-income Americans as a consequence of the government shutdown.
SF News Condor Club Manager’s Shooting May Have Been Motivated by Couple Getting Fired As Santa Rosa police sift through evidence in the killing of Condor Club manager Mark Calcagni, they’ve arrested a couple that both used to work there, and say the pair’s firing was "at least one motivating factor" in the alleged murder.
Arts & Entertainment Sting to Perform Super Bowl Weekend Concert at SF's Palace of Fine Arts Music legend Sting was just announced as a headliner of the Super Bowl Weekend concert series in San Francisco, which is being put on by the NFL's hospitality provider.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Victim Identified In Santa Cruz Wharf Crash Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies fatally shot a man during a traffic stop Monday; the victim in Sunday's fatal crash at the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf has been ID'd; and Bay Area food banks are mobilizing as SNAP benefits go unpaid.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Possibly Dangerous Inmate Released By Mistake In Contra Costa County An inmate wanted in a homicide case in Seattle was mistakenly freed in Contra Costa County; a large union of federal workers has broken with Democrats over the shutdown; and Alaska Airlines is cutting five routes out of SFO.
SF Politics Now California Will Bring In State Election Monitors to Monitor Trump’s Federal Election Monitors The Trump administration has already declared they’re sending election monitors to California for next week’s Prop 50 vote. But the Gavin Newsom administration just announced they’ll have their own monitors to monitor Trump’s monitors.
SF News Video Shows Weird Aftermath to Shooting Involving U-Haul Truck at Coast Guard Island ICE Protest As we await further details from federal investigators about a strange incident that capped off a tense day Thursday in Oakland outside the gates of Alameda's Coast Guard Island, the Chronicle has obtained some strange surveillance video.
Arts & Entertainment Walnut Creek Native Becomes First Person Ever to Ski Down the North Face of Mount Everest Former Walnut Creek resident Jim Morrison just skied about 30,000 feet down the north face of Mount Everest, becoming the first person ever to ski down Everest’s steepest and most challenging route, the Hornbein Couloir.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Annual Sandcastle Classic Won by Giant Crabs Playing Video Games Students from Daniel Webster Elementary School won the 43rd Annual Leap Sandcastle Classic on Saturday at Ocean Beach, with their interpretations of two SF-style crabs playing with Nintendo game controllers.
SF Politics Gavin Finally (Sort of) Admits He's Running For President; Kamala Strongly Suggests She Will Again, Too California Governor Gavin Newsom has been doing a good job of getting his name out there in the national media over the last year or two, in what has clearly been an orchestrated plan in preparation for a presidential run. And on Sunday he finally fessed up that yes, he's probably going to run.
Arts & Entertainment Fake, Satirical Startup 'Replacement.AI' Puts Up Haunting Billboards In SF, NYC A satirical ad campaign from some as-yet-unidentified pranksters/performance artists has spent real money on multiple billboards in San Francisco and New York that satirize some of the "stop hiring humans" messaging of actual AI startups.
SF News Older Woman Killed In Sunday Night-Hit-and-Run In Ingleside Neighborhood, Suspect in Custody A still-unidentified woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash at Ocean and Ashton avenues early Sunday night, though police quickly found their suspect, who remains in SFPD custody.
SF News Air Traffic Control Staffing, Impacted By Shutdown, Leads to Ground Stop at LAX, Flight Delays In Bay Area The government shutdown is impacting air travel and may impact it even more in the coming week and beyond, as air traffic controllers miss paychecks and call in sick.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Get Bulldozed 26-15 By a Houston Texans Team Wearing Very Strange One-Off Uniforms Your San Francisco 49ers looked jet-lagged and hungover for their early Sunday morning game, scoring their fewest points all season, and giving up nearly 500 yards in a 26-15 loss to the oddly dressed Houston Texans.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Water Main Break Floods Homes In Sunnydale A water main broke in SF's Sunnydale neighborhood Monday morning; BART had more equipment trouble today in the Transbay Tube; and President Trump admits he underwent an MRI earlier this month.
