SF News Opening Night 49ers Tickets Cost Less Than Parking Passes As Fans Bail While the 49ers have been in the news a lot recently, it hasn't been for their rosy 2016 season prospects. Indeed, as the Chronicle reports, with sports pundits predicting a difficult year for
SF News Apple Employee Sues Westfield Valley Fair Mall After Security Guard Pulls Gun An Apple employee is suing a mall and two of its security guards after a frightening incident caught on film. CBS 5 reports that the man was exiting the Westfield Valley Fair Mall
SF News Host Committee Wants Another Super Bowl Here In Five Years It's been a mere two days since the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers in Santa Clara, and the mess from Super Bowl City and the NFL Fan Experience is still being cleaned
SF News Hide Your Pets: Fighter Jets To Buzz Bay Area In Anticipation Of Super Bowl We've heard probably too much about street level security for the upcoming Super Bowl and Super Bowl City, but what about threats from above. Don't you worry, the government has thought it all
SF News Racist Texts Found Between Santa Clara Deputies After Alleged Murder Of Mentally Ill Inmate After 31-year-old mentally ill inmate Michael James Tyree was found dead in his cell, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith arrested and filed murder charges against three of her corrections deputies. Now CBS
SF News As Much As They Might Want To, Santa Clara's City Council Can't Legally Enforce A Levi's Stadium Booze Ban Bad news for all the schadenfreudians who snickered over a possible booze ban at Levi's Stadium: According to Santa Clara's City Attorney, the governing body that was mulling the prohibition doesn't actually have
SF News Drink Fast! Ban On Booze Sales After Halftime Considered For Levi's Stadium A brutal brawl between 49ers and Vikings fans caught on video following last weekend's game has some Santa Clara City Council members expressing second thoughts about one of Levi's Stadium's biggest revenue streams:
SF News Three Santa Clara Corrections Deputies Charged With Murder After Inmate Is Found Dead In what the New York Times is calling "a rare step," Santa Clara County sheriff Laurie Smith arrested and filed murder charges against three of her corrections deputies following the discovery last week
SF News 49ers Lose Fight Against Neighboring Kids Soccer League To Pave Over Their Fields In a fight reminiscent of tech bros versus Mission kids, the 49ers lost their fight against the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League and won't be turning their fields into parking lots. At a
SF News Bay Area Cops Shot Three Men Over The Course Of Eight Hours This Weekend Two men are dead and a third is injured after Bay Area police responded with force in three separate incidents this weekend, including one that appears to have been a "suicide by cop.
SF News As Alleged Killer Of Bay Area Teen Awaits Trial, Family Suspends Search For Her Body Three years after the disappearance of Bay Area teen Sierra LaMar, her family is suspending their weekly search for the girl's remains, saying that “we’ve run out of viable search areas." As
SF News No Charges For Ray McDonald 49ers defensive end Ray McDonald will not be charged in connection with the alleged domestic violence incident for which he was arrested back in late August. As CBS 5 reports, the Santa Clara
Arts & Entertainment Should The Super Bowl 50 Host Committee Be Reaching Out To LGBT-Owned Businesses? Since this is the Bay Area, the nexus of the LGBT civil rights movement and home to one of the largest LGBT populations in the country, shouldn't the host committee for Super Bowl
SF News Levi's Stadium Neighbors Say They Are 'Hostages' In Their Homes Due To Traffic Situation If you thought plunking a 70,000-person football stadium into a residential neighborhood could be done without pissing anyone off, well, you haven't been to Santa Clara lately. Neighbors of the 49ers' new
SF News Gavin Newsom: 49ers' Decision To Play Ray McDonald Is 'Painful Affront To Every Victim Of Domestic Violence' About five hours before the 49ers began their first home game of the 2014-2015 season, Lt. Gov/former SF mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife, filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom, were not, as you
SF News The Fastest Way To Levi's Stadium Is, Probably, By Car (If You Leave Super Early) The 49ers' debut game at Levi's Stadium Sunday, an embarrassing 34-0 loss to the Broncos in 80-degree heat that even took the life of one loyal fan a man who suffered cardiac arrest
SF News First Big Event at Levi's Stadium Creates Total Traffic Clusterf**k San Jose Earthquakes fans became guinea pigs Saturday night in the poorly conceived traffic experiment that is Levi's Stadium. Attendees at the soccer game, the first major event at the stadium, were stuck
SF News S.F. Officials Snub Levi's Stadium Ribbon-Cutting, Willie Brown Laments Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — who finally announced today that he’s an official lobbyist — vented in his Chronicle column, Willie's World, about the Levi's Stadium ribbon-cutting ceremony on July 17, essentially
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A First Look At 49ers Levi's Stadium Menu — Minus The Prices The Bay Area doesn't do food like the rest of America, so why should its new football stadium be any different? On Wednesday, chefs revealed a first look at the menu that'll be
SF News $40 Million Raised For Super Bowl 50 Expenses, SF Gets Bupkis Though the host committee for Super Bowl 50 has touted $40 million in private gifts to support the event, none of that money will go to pay San Francisco's costs as (ostensible) hosts
Arts & Entertainment NFL Drops Roman Numerals For Super Bowl 50 Because "Super Bowl L" would have apparently been too confusing for the American populace, the NFL announced Wednesday that they would be dropping the Roman numerals for the first time in the history
Arts & Entertainment Video: Forget The Goodyear Blimp, Get An Aerial View Of Levi's Stadium Now Today in aerial videos, we're taking a drone flight over Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. The stadium literally rolled out the natural grass field last month, along with the bright, Niners-red seating that
SF News FBI Looked Into Joe Montana During Leland Yee-Shrimp Boy Investigation San Francisco's most decorated quarterback-turned-real estate developer Joe Montana was the subject of a brief but fruitless FBI inquiry related to the same sting operation that nabbed state Senator Leland Yee and Chinatown
SF News Brace: Super Bowl Expected To Draw 1 Million To S.F. Come Super Bowl 50, the city of San Francisco is expected to harbor an estimated 1 million tourists for the annual football gala. And if you thought San Francisco was losing its gay
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At Levi's Stadium... Carbon footprint be damned, workers install seating at Levi's Stadium today, unwrapping each one box by box. Yikes. The 49ers' new home will open in August.
