SF News Day Around the Bay: Anthropic AI to Pay Authors, Publishers $1.5 Billion in Copyright Settlement Oakland-born figure skater Alysa Liu won’t be performing to the d4vd song she’d chosen for the Milan Olympics; Sinclair and Nexstar will be airing Jimmy Kimmel at their ABC affiliate stations Friday; and Anthropic has settled a lawsuit with authors and publishers alleging copyright infringement.
Business & Tech Former Bay Meadows Racetrack Finally Getting Its Last New Buildings, 18 Years After It Closed It’s taken 18 years to fully develop San Mateo’s 83-acre former horse racing track Bay Meadows, but a developer is finally submitting permits for the final two buildings of what will be a seven-building complex.
SF News Sunday Links: Supporters to Rally for Yosemite Ranger Fired for Hanging Trans Pride Flag The FDA might classify 7-OH, the potent compound in kratom, as a controlled substance; foolhardy swimmers have been entering East Bay lakes that are closed due to toxic algae; and supporters of the park ranger fired for flying the trans pride flag at Yosemite in May are rallying Sunday.
SF News Chris Hansen of ‘To Catch a Predator’ Fame to Expose Roblox in New TruBlu Documentary Chris Hansen’s upcoming documentary 'Predators' will investigate Roblox, the popular game-making tool accused of enabling the exploitation of underage users. The company is also being sued by the state of Louisiana.
SF News Saturday Links: CHP Arrests BMW Driver Who Posted Alleged 170 MPH Joyride Videos Online Over 20 nations are now condemning Israel's expansion plans; Giants pitcher Kai-Wei Teng dedicated the first win of his career last night to his dad; and a man was arrested after posting videos of his BMW M4 speeding at 170 mph.
SF News Day Around the Bay: World's Ugliest Dog Contest Opens Sonoma County Fair This Friday The suspect in a recent East Bay Target bombing has been linked to a multi-state ATM heist crew; an LA activist has been tailing and filming ICE agents, while alerting communities to their presence; and the Sonoma County Fair kicks off tonight with the World's Ugliest Dog Contest.
Business & Tech San Mateo Company Claims They’ve Got a ‘True Flying Car,’ Taking Pre-Orders Now A local startup says their flying car is now operable, they’ve got a hype video for it, and insist they are now taking pre-orders for this $300,000 vehicle. But there may not be many places in the Bay Area you can legally fly it.
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 'Equipment Issue' Leaves 36,000 San Mateo Households and Businesses Without Power A power outage was impacting a whole lot of people in San Mateo Thursday morning, and its cause is still a mystery.
SF News 37-Year-Old Pregnant Woman Murdered In San Mateo, Boyfriend Arrested While Apparently Fleeing to SoCal A yet-unidentified pregnant woman in San Mateo was killed Sunday, and the police department there identified her 33-year-old boyfriend Andrew Coleman as the suspect. He was arrested five hours later in West Covina, seemingly attempting to flee.
SF News San Mateo Construction Worker Buried in Ten Feet of Dirt, Gets Rescued But Remains In Critical Condition A terrifying construction accident in San Mateo Thursday morning, as a trench collapsed and buried a worker in ten feet of dirt, though he has been rescued, hospitalized, and remains in critical condition.
SF News Safeway Fires 22-Year Veteran Employee For Thwarting a Shoplifter, Then Denies Unemployment Claim A San Mateo Safeway may regret their decision to fire an employee who stopped a $500 shoplifting attempt, and then deny that employee unemployment benefits, because a state board ruled they have to pay the unemployment, and now a wrongful termination suit is looming.
SF News Family Killed In San Mateo Murder-Suicide Identified The husband and wife and twin sons who were killed last weekend in a home in San Mateo have been identified, and they reportedly moved into the home in 2020 shortly after the boys were born.
SF News San Mateo Deaths Look to Be Triple Murder-Suicide, Father Was Gunman While San Mateo police have been slow to release information in the case of a family found dead inside a home on a quiet street Monday morning, some pieces are starting to come together via multiple sources.
SF News [Update] Husband, Wife, Four-Year-Old Twin Boys Found Dead In San Mateo Home Details remain thin, but police in San Mateo are investigating the deaths of two adults and two children who were found dead inside a home Monday morning in San Mateo's Sugarloaf neighborhood.
SF News Arrest Made Following Drunken Melee Outside San Mateo Dive Bar That Ended In Stabbings One suspect has been arrested in connection with a chaotic fight outside Yuppie Cantina in San Mateo last month that left two men with stab wounds.
SF News Wild San Mateo Road Rage Incident Ends With Father Being Mowed Down by Automobile A Sunday melee on the suburban streets of San Mateo allegedly escalated from vehicular stalking, to threats with a knife, to a man being struck by a car, and one 24-year-old suspect is facing multiple charges.
SF News Woman Stabbed In San Mateo Apartment; Suspect Streams Final Moments On Facebook San Mateo County has just seen another gruesome murder that sounds like a domestic violence incident, this time involving a woman being stabbed live on Facebook.
SF News South Bay Woman Rescued and Set to Return to California Eight Months After Abduction in Mexico San Mateo resident, 29-year-old Monica De Leon Barba, was kidnapped while walking her dog last year in Tepatitlán, Mexico, but has been found safe, though no arrests have been made yet.
SF News Four Arrested In San Francisco For San Mateo LEGO Store Robbery Four East Bay residents — three adults and a juvenile — were taken into custody Friday following a heist of LEGOs worth $3,500. And the crew was easily caught because they were in a car they rented through a third-party app.
SF News Bay Area Nursing Home Could Lose State License After Investigation into Elderly Residents Dying by Poison Last Summer The state is trying to shut down Atria Park in San Mateo after the conclusion of its investigation into residents mistakenly being served dishwashing liquid as drinking juice that resulted in two deaths, but the company is appealing.
SF Politics San Mateo Mayor Faces Recall Effort After Barely Two Months On the Job Recall-mania is back! San Mateo Mayor Amourence Lee was just elected in December, but already faces a recall effort, one which seems entirely about rehashing the circumstances of her election.
SF Politics San Mateo Appoints Amourence Lee As Mayor, Yet She Is Now Making Corruption Allegations San Mateo’s week-long mayor-less nightmare is over, as Amourence Lee was appointed the city’s first Asian American mayor Monday night, but she still described the proceedings as an attempted "insurrection."
SF News San Mateo City Council Fight Leaves City Without Mayor, Breaks 128 Years Of Tradition The City of San Mateo's two new councilmembers are blocking the nomination of their co-member who traditionally would have been selected this time, Councilwoman Amourence Lee.
SF News Elderly Woman Dies, Two Hospitalized After Nursing Home Serves Them Dishwashing Detergent A 93-year-old woman is dead and two residents of a San Mateo assisted living facility are in the hospital after all three were mistakenly served dishwashing liquid to drink.
