SF News Saturday Links: San Ramon Hit With 18 More Earthquakes Friday As Part of Historic Swarm A driver died after they hit a tree and their Tesla caught fire off Highway 17 in the South Bay; an angry dog owner pulled a gun on someone at a Vallejo park; and San Ramon experienced another swarm of earthquakes Friday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Another Small Earthquake Rattles San Ramon A 3.2M quake rumbled under San Ramon Thursday morning, part of a 10-day swarm; I-80 in Solano County is getting an express toll lane; and the rain that passed through this morning should be the last for a bit.
SF News Sunday Links: Sunnyvale Official Sends Snarky Reply to Campaign Text, Gets Cussed Out San Ramon was the center of at least seven small earthquakes; the Trump administration is demanding that states give their SNAP money back after the latest ruling; and a Sunnyvale city councilmember opened a can of worms when he responded disparagingly to a campaign text message.
Arts & Entertainment Authors Visiting Bay Area to Promote Kids’ Book About Banned Books Told Not to Discuss Banned Books In an ironic twist indicative of our times, authors Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin-Pritchard were about to go on stage to discuss their new kids’ book 'The Day the Books Disappeared' at a San Ramon elementary school when they were told not to mention banned or queer books.
SF News 25-Person Mob-Style Robbery of Jewelry Store In San Ramon Part of Larger Pattern A 25-person mob committed an armed robbery at a jewelry store in San Ramon on Monday, ransacking the store and reportedly making off with $1 million worth of merchandise. The crime is part of a larger pattern repeating itself across California.
SF News Sunday Links: Tesla Ordered to Pay $243M in Fatal Florida Crash Involving Autopilot Software The dog stories continue this weekend with Pacifica's World Dog Surfing Championships highlights; two former San Ramon students were paid $7 million in a settlement over a sexual abuse case involving a teacher; and Tesla was found partly liable in a 2019 autopilot crash in Miami.
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.
SF News San Ramon School District Pays $7 Million to Alleged Sex Abuse Victims Who Accuse the District of a Cover-Up Two women who say that a San Ramon Valley High teacher sexually abused them when they were high school students were just awarded a nearly $7 million settlement, though oddly, that teacher is reportedly still credentialed.
SF News Deplorable Teen Arrested After Allegedly Dragging Assistant Principal By the Hair During East Bay High School Dance A teenager is accused of assaulting and dragging an assistant principal by the hair at California High School in San Ramon after she approached the teen and another student outside of a homecoming dance.
Business & Tech Chevron Announces They’re Leaving Their San Ramon Headquarters, Relocating to Houston The second-largest US oil company Chevron seemed to have one foot out the door of its national headquarters in San Ramon, but now they’re making it official and moving to Texas, though their smoke-spewing Richmond refinery is apparently staying put.
SF News Apparent Rash of Wallet Thefts Hitting East Bay Trader Joe’s Stores The Livermore Police Department is sounding the alarm over a “crime trend” of unattended wallets being stolen from shopping carts at Trader Joe’s locations, though the obvious solution is just not leaving your wallet unattended.
Business & Tech San Ramon-Based Chevron Buys Up Smaller Rival Hess for $53 Billion A big merger in Big Oil has Bay Area connections, as San Ramon’s Chevron just announced they’re acquiring a smaller rival called Hess Corp., reaping the gains of record profits generated by high gas prices.
SF News The LGBTQ Book-Banning Debate Comes to the Bay Area Suburbs Lest you think the Bay Area is immune to the sort of fights that are raging in school districts across the country, we are not, and a school board meeting in the East Bay was just this week filled with vitriol over books for LGBTQ kids.
SF Politics San Ramon Parents Want To Jump On The Public School Book-Banning Bandwagon Angry parents have taken to Facebook to condemn a handful of books carried in San Ramon Valley Unified School District libraries, and the pitchforks are coming out for an upcoming school board meeting at which the board is set to discuss banned books.
SF News Colorado Man Charged With Hate Crime In San Ramon In-N-Out Incident San Ramon police made quick work of identifying and locating a suspect last weekend following a Christmas Eve viral-video hate-crime incident at an In-N-Out restaurant, and a similar incident targeting AAPI victims the next day.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Man's Racist, Homophobic Taunts at San Ramon In-N-Out Goes Viral on TikTok A creepy, scary, racist suspect is being sought in an incident that occurred in a San Ramon In-N-Out on Christmas Eve, and most of the incident — at least the audio — was captured in a TikTok video.
Business & Tech Chevron Selling Off Headquarters In San Ramon, But Richmond Refinery Staying Put Oil and gas giant Chevron is downsizing its Bay Area footprint and moving a bunch of employees from San Ramon to Houston, but sorry Richmond residents, that often-flaring refinery is not going anywhere.
SF News San Ramon Police Determine K-9 Attack on Suspect Was Justified, Outside Experts Call It 'Cops Gone Wild' An Uber driver had a K-9 dog sicced on him when he was 10 days late on a car payment, and while the San Ramon PD says the dog attack was justified, use-of-force experts call it a “hyperexaggerated and hysterical response.”
SF News San Ramon Police Sic Attack Dog on Uber Driver Who’d Merely Missed Car Payments An Uber driver who’d missed rental car payments had his vehicle reported stolen, and San Roman police allowed their K-9 to maul him badly, in an incident that begs ethical issues of gig car rental companies and police use of force.
SF News 3.9-Magnitude Earthquake Hits San Ramon, Felt Across Local Earthquake Twitter There were actually three separate tremors just before noon Wednesday, and Earthquake Twitter was feeling it.
SF News Nation's First Driverless Shuttles Begin Ferrying Workers Around Bay Area Office Park On Monday, two autonomous passenger shuttles built by the French company EasyMile began picking up passengers to move them around the Bishop Ranch office park in San Ramon, 35 miles east of San
SF News The Hundreds Of Earthquakes That Hit San Ramon This Past Week Don't Mean Anything (Probably) Remember the earthquake swarm that hit San Ramon last week? The one on the Calaveras Fault, which is a branch of the San Andreas Fault that runs under the far East Bay? Well,
SF News Swarm Of Small Earthquakes Rocks San Ramon For Second Day A series of quakes that began Tuesday evening in and around San Ramon continued through the day Wednesday and into Thursday morning according to the US Geological Survey. This morning has already played
Arts & Entertainment Aeolian Ride Brings 'Inflatable' Cyclists Back To The Bay Area This Week The first and only time the Aeolian Ride came to San Francisco was way back in 2004 when SFist was but a fledgling operation, and when the performance-art-meets-bikeride event was first started. In
SF News Did You Feel This Morning's 3.6 Magnitude Earthquake? According to the US Geological Survey, a 3.6 magnitude earthquake struck the Bay Area early this morning, shaking folks in San Francisco, down the peninsula, and as far north as Vacaville. The
