Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Valkyries Podcast, Audium’s 50th Anniversary, Hidden Alcatraz, and Bandaloop In this week's Field Notes: a Golden State Valkyries momcast, Audium’s 50th anniversary 176-speaker revival, Bandaloop in Oakland, Tamera Avery’s surreal art, the best swimming holes, Victorian towns, zany dioramas, and more.
SF News Ex-SJPD Officer Who Allegedly Punched Woman in 2021 DUI Road Rage Incident Skirts Charges A former San Jose police officer charged with DUI after a 2021 road-rage incident — with a child in his car — is avoiding prosecution through a military diversion program. He reportedly punched a woman in a violent case prosecutors say the law wasn’t meant to cover.
SF News Illegal Fireworks Spark Dozens of Bay Area Fires on July 4th, Injuring Several and Killing Two Dogs Illegal fireworks ignited dozens of fires across the Bay Area on the Fourth of July — from Oakland and Alameda to Antioch and San Jose — with Oakland Fire Department responding to more than 60 fires.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Amy Tan Watches Birds, a Pop Star Emerges in Marin, and a Lost Gay Film is Found A long-lost queer film is pulled from the trash; Bay Area native Amy Tan’s meditative bird journals; Tiburon's Miist is spreading kindness through pop music; and Senegalese chef Nafy Flatley is redefining downtown dining with Teranga.
SF News Saturday Links: SoCal Man Says He Was Dragged From Van, Arrested for Filming ICE Raid A new report warns that Sonoma County is still not prepared for large scale emergency fire or flood evacuations; a San Jose police officer was arrested for firing his gun and faces child abuse charges; and a SoCal man says he was violently dragged and arrested for filming an ICE raid on Thursday.
SF News Suspect Arrested for Allegedly Assaulting Two Women on San Jose’s Los Gatos Creek Trail San Jose police arrested 21-year-old Pablo Chan of Campbell on Thursday in connection with two violent sexual assaults that occurred on Wednesday morning within hours of each other on the Los Gatos Creek Trail.
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.
SF News Sunday Links: 1975 Murder Convict Arrested for Child Porn, Narcotics, and Gun Possession Amazon-backed AI model, Claude Opus, attempted to blackmail engineers; local film industry leaders hope two new proposed state bills will increase production in SF; and a Vallejo ex-con was arrested for child porn.
SF News Four Arrested in Sextortion Scheme Linked to San Jose Teen’s 2022 Suicide Two years after 17-year-old Ryan Last of San Jose took his own life, authorities have arrested four men in Côte d’Ivoire for their alleged roles in an international sextortion scheme that targeted thousands, including minors.
SF News Another Scandal Hits San Jose Fire Department as Station Captain Arrested for Allegedly Stealing Drugs Just a couple years after the San Jose Fire Department was red-faced over on-duty firefighters visiting strip clubs, there’s another scandal where a station captain has been arrested on suspicion of stealing drugs.
Business & Tech Waymo Eyeing Expansion Into San Jose, and Also Much of the South Bay You might soon be able to take a Waymo all the way from SF to San Jose, as the self-driving robotaxis are apparently already halfway through their bureaucratic quest to win approval to operate in San Jose, plus much of Santa Clara County.
SF News Disgraced San Jose City Councilmember Convicted of Molesting a Minor Decades Ago San Jose City Councilmember Omar Torres had already been under fire for text messages seemingly soliciting a minor before he was arrested on sexual abuse charges. This morning, he pleaded no contest and was convicted.
SF News Despite Strike Ending, VTA Trains Won’t Run Friday, Because Thieves Stole So Much Copper Wire It will not be a smooth resumption of service for Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority trains after their workers’ strike ended Wednesday, because thieves stole so much copper wire off the tracks that the trains can’t run again until next week.
SF News Man Arrested In San Jose For Allegedly Keying a Tesla, as Seen In Viral Video A probably politically motivated act of vandalism has resulted in an arrest in San Jose, after a man seen in a viral video keying a Tesla in a Costco parking lot has been taken into custody.
SF News Truck Appears to Drive Into Striking VTA Workers on Picket Line, One Hospitalized As Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority workers went on strike today, picketers at one San Jose location were struck by a truck, perhaps intentionally, and one of those picketers was hospitalized.
SF News Five Teen Suspects, Allegedly Affiliated With Local Gang, Arrested for Murder of San Jose 15-Year-Old Five young suspects ranging in age from 13 to 18 have been arrested in connection with the Valentine's Day fatal stabbing at Santana Row that took the life of a 15-year-old boy.
SF News ICE Agents Confirmed to Be Carrying Out Operations Sunday In San Jose, Rumored to Be Back on Monday While there is no evidence yet that anyone was detained, San Jose officials have confirmed that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were carrying out some sort of operation Sunday, and a watchdog group says they were back at it Monday morning.
SF News San Jose Police Arrest Trio Linked to Nearly 80 South Burglaries, Mostly Targeting Asian Households Three men have been arrested in connection with a slew of home burglaries in several South Bay cities, and authorities estimate the value of goods stolen around $1 million.
SF News San Jose Police Shoot and Injure Suspect They Say Was Threatening Them With a Knife A Sunday night domestic disturbance led to a knife-wielding suspect barricading themselves in a home and threatening police in San Jose’s East Virginia neighborhood, and officers shot that suspect who is now hospitalized.
SF News Seven Men Indicted For Organizing Bay Area Sideshows Via Instagram San Jose Police announced the arrest of seven men at a news conference Thursday, under the city's three-year-old law that makes it a crime to promote or organize sideshows.
SF News Union City Man Found Guilty of 2021 Murder of Trans Drag Artist Natalia Smüt In what appears to be Santa Clara County’s first guilty verdict in a transgender domestic homicide case, a 25-year-old Union City man was convicted of killing then-24-year-old Natalia Smüt Lopez of San Jose.
SF News Officials Raise Serious Safety Concerns Over BART-to-San Jose Design, Because Boy Does This Seem Like a Lot of Stairs Riders would have to climb the equivalent of eight flights of stairs in an emergency under the current design of the proposed BART-to-San Jose stations, and some officials are waving red flags that this is not feasible emergency planning.
SF News Investigators Say Gambling Debt Was Motive In Friday Shooting at VTA Yard Authorities said Monday that a shooting on Friday, allegedly committed by one Valley Transportation Authority employee against another, did not have to do with workplace tensions.
SF News VTA Employee Arrested For Friday Slaying of Coworker In San Jose A Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) employee was arrested Sunday in San Jose in connection with a fatal shooting of a coworker Friday in a VTA parking lot.
SF News Murder Charge Dropped for One Housemate In Overdose Death of San Jose Toddler, Trial Proceeding for Two Others A judge has ruled that a trial can proceed against two men who were charged, along with two others, in connection with the August 2023 death of a toddler due to fentanyl exposure.
