SF News As Oakland Schools Superintendent Steps Down, Controversies Rage Over Alleged Threats of Violence The Oakland Unified School District school year has closed on one hell of a note, with a superintendent dismissed with no explanation, and allegations that a teachers' union official threatened a principal by saying she would “fucking beat her ass.”
Business & Tech X/Twitter Goes Down for Third Time In a Week, Just as Musk Drug Story Drops Xitter had something of a meltdown Friday, with many users reporting a total outage on the platform in the US, India, and elsewhere.
SF News If You Visited the H Mart In North San Jose or the Trader Joe's In Milpitas Last Week You May Have Been Exposed to Measles Public health officials in Alameda and Santa Clara counties have put out an alert about possible measles exposure that could have occurred at several retail locations in the last nine days.
Arts & Entertainment Comedy Writer Harper Steele, Longtime Friend and Documentary Partner of Will Ferrell, Named SF Pride Grand Marshal Harper Steele, the former head writer for 'Saturday Night Live' who gained national attention last year for the Netflix documentary 'Will & Harper,' has just been named the Celebrity Grand Marshal of San Francisco Pride.
SF News Bombshell Report Says Elon Musk Was Using Copious Amount of Drugs While In Trump's Orbit Blaze one up to check out the biggest scandal of the day, as the New York Times has an exhaustive new exposé on how Elon Musk was hopped up on ketamine, ecstasy, mushrooms, and Adderall on the Trump campaign, and maybe in the White House.
SF News Victim In CHP Chase Crash Identified as Oakland Math Teacher, as More Details Emerge The victim in Wednesday's fatal hit-and-run crash in Oakland stemming from a chase initiated by California Highway Patrol officers has been identified as a high school math teacher.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Man In Wheelchair Struck In San Jose Hit-and-Run A 72-year-old man in a motorized wheelchair was struck by a car and seriously injured Friday morning in San Jose; a Catholic university on the Peninsula is selling its campus to UC; and the recall math isn't great for Engardio.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Those SF Dead & Co Tickets Go on Sale Friday Morning SF Pride has cobbled together a few new sponsors amidst their mass sponsor retreat, the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals are tonight, and those Dead and Company Golden Gate Park concert tickets go on sale at 10 am sharp Friday morning.
SF Politics SF City Hall Faces First Major Layoffs In 15 Years as Mayor Lurie Proposes Cutting 1,400 Jobs San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced his intention to eliminate as many as 1,400 city jobs in order to close the current budget deficit, though the vast majority of those positions are currently unfilled.
SF News Bayview Community Activist Arrested In Four Killings Spanning 17 Years There was a potential major break in four separate cold cases this week in San Francisco with the arrest of a 44-year-old man who stands accused of a fatal shooting in 2019 and three killings 17 years earlier.
SF News Trump Administration Goes After Fresno-Area Track and Field Competition Over Trans Athlete Heading into this weekend’s State Track and Field Championships, the California Interscholastic Federation made a rule change to appease the Trump administration’s furor over a trans athlete being allowed to participate.
SF News Suspect In Assault at Beanie Babies Billionaire's Mansion Was In Court In SF a Decade Ago The man accused of breaking into the Montecito mansion owned by Beanie Babies billionaire Ty Warner last week and assaulting a woman, putting her in a coma, was living in San Francisco a decade ago after reportedly threatening his wife.
SF Politics SF's First Recall Election of a Sitting Supervisor Gets a Date With the necessary signatures now certified, SF Supervisor Joel Engardio will now face a recall election in three and a half months.
SF News One Person Dead After Wednesday Night High-Speed CHP Chase in Oakland In an incident that will surely fan the flames of the debate over high-speed police chases, one pedestrian is dead after California Highway Patrol officers engaged in a high-speed chase near Lake Merritt Wednesday night.
SF Politics Supreme Court Rules That Environmental Impact Reports Must Focus on Project at Hand A unanimous Supreme Court, with one justice recused, ruled Thursday that the 1970 environmental law often used to stymie or slow down infrastructure and housing development does not require review documents that take into account secondary and tertiary effects of a project on other businesses.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: That Square ‘Corner Store’ Has Opened in the Former Lucca Ravioli SFUSD has backtracked on a controversial new grading system; the fired Oakland schools superintendent is speaking out; and we have our first look at the Square pop-up that just opened in the old Lucca Ravioli space.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Federal Court Says Trump's Tariffs Aren't Legal A panel of judges on the US Court of International Trade ruled today that Trump doesn't have the authority to impose his tariffs; Elon Musk departs the White House with parting shot; and Sonoma Ponzi scheme suspect Kenneth Mattson has been granted $4M bail.
SF News There’s a Scary New COVID Variant, and Stanford Scientists Say It’s Already in California New COVID variant just dropped, one which has apparently wrought a fair amount of sickness in China, and researchers say it’s already been in California for a month. We’ll see how the new anti-vaxx leaders in Washington, DC handle this one.
SF News Honduran National Sentenced to Four Years For Gun Incident Outside Mission District Bar A 37-year-old man has been sentenced to federal prison in connection with an April 2023 incident in which he fired a gun into the air outside of a San Francisco bar, and appeared to point a gun at arriving police officers.
SF News Five More Dead Gray Whales Bring Bay Area Death Toll to 14 We've been seeing another spike in gray whale mortality this year around the Bay Area that isn't well explained, but an unusual number of gray whales have been entering and hanging out in SF Bay this spring.
SF News SFPD Arrests Alleged Arsonist Who May Be Linked to Playground Arson Cases A 29-year-old man who was allegedly in possession of methamphetamine and was seen lighting things on fire in a park Monday morning was arrested, and he may be linked to multiple fires in the Outer Richmond, two of which destroyed playgrounds.
SF News San Mateo Dad Charged After Allegedly Firing Shots at High School Boys Who Egged His House The father of a San Mateo high school girl now faces criminal charges after he allegedly opened fire on a car full of high school boys on Saturday.
SF News Heat Advisory For Friday Expanded to Include Much of Bay Area, Santa Cruz Mountains The National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory for Friday for most of the inland Bay Area which was expanded earlier today to include the Santa Cruz Mountains.
SF News A Year After Murder of 19-Year-Old Lowell Grad In Dolores Park, One Suspect Arrested The community mourned last June when recent Lowell High grad Luis Arguello Inglis was shot and killed in Dolores Park. Now a year later, a suspect has been arrested and is in custody.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Layoffs Hit Amusement Parks Great America and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom A corporate takeover is raising fears at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat; Elon Musk’s latest SpaceX launch failed to launch; and a bunch of management is getting laid off at two of the Bay Area’s biggest amusement parks.
