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Post-Thanksgiving Headlines: No Santa at Macy's This Year

There was a series of small earthquakes early Friday centered near Gilroy; thieves targeted a Great Wolf Lodge parking lot; and there won't be an in-store Santa at Macy's in Union Square for the first time in 80 years.

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SFPD Arrests Three Men for Alleged SF Citywide Construction Tool Theft Ring

This haul of power tools was allegedly stolen from a construction site in the Outer Sunset, by a crew police say was hitting houses under construction in overnight heists in the Mission, Bayview, and beyond.

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Parents of College Students Killed in Piedmont Cybertruck Crash Sue Tesla, Say Kids Were Trapped in Burning Car

The lawsuits against Tesla seemed likely after three college students died in a burning Cybertruck in Piedmont, and the parents of the victims say the doors of the Cybertruck would not open as the vehicle burned.

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Newsom Threatens to Cut Off Funds to Universities That Comply With Trump’s Threats to Cut Off Funds to Universities

Governor Newsom has created a Spiderman-pointing-at-Spiderman GIF dilemma for any state universities that comply with Trump's demands to adopt his policies or lose federal funding, as Newsom says he’ll yank their state funding.

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Threads Connected In Story of Zizian Shot In Vermont Who Was German Math Whiz

The New York Times has attempted to explain one of the still unexplained pieces of the bizarre web of Zizian "murder cult" deaths, just as a Solano County trial for two of the cult's suspects gets delayed until next year.

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Shooting Suspect Arrested After Lengthy Standoff In SF's Tenderloin

A suspect in a shooting engaged police in a multi-hour, overnight standoff on Eddy Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin before being arrested early Friday morning.

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Friday Morning Constitutional: Apple Pulls ICE-Tracking App From App Store

Apple has banned an app that allows people to report and track ICE activity; an experienced 23-year-old climber died on Yosemite's El Cap; and the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a new Second Amendment case out of Hawaii.

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Day Around the Bay: Santa Rosa Police Seize 5,000 Suspected Fentanyl Pills

The Santa Rosa PD busted a suspected drug trafficker and found 5,000 suspected fentanyl pills; UC Berkeley is investigating a hate crime assault; and the FDA just approved a generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone.

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Teen Accused of Defacing Pink Triangle Gets Felony Vandalism Charge, But No Hate Crime Charges

The 19-year-old who allegedly spray-painted on the Twin Peaks Pink Triangle last Pride Month has been charged with a felony, though not a hate crime, as his attorney says the kid didn’t even know what the Pink Triangle meant.

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SFUSD to Open New Mission Bay Elementary School Next Year, Despite Declining Enrollment

Wait, weren’t we just trying to close some SF schools? We were, but the SF Unified School District is still opening another elementary school this fall in the burgeoning Mission Bay neighborhood.

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Thursday Morning What's Up: Travis AFB Families to Feel Impacts of Shutdown

Active duty Air Force members and businesses who depend on Travis AFB customers will feel impacts of stopped paychecks; a 47-year-old Santa Rosa woman goes missing on a hike; and the rain is supposed to stop today and give way to sun.

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Day Around the Bay: Reggie Aqui Leaves ABC 7 News After Ten Years

There were hundreds of wind-related flight delays at SFO Wednesday; Brock Purdy has been sidelined again for Thursday night’s Rams game; and Reggie Aqui is leaving KGO and his 'ABC7 Mornings' position after ten years at the station.

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More Frank Somerville Trouble, as He’s Charged With Battery Over Alleged Drunken 2024 Incident

Yet another troubling development involving former KTVU anchor Frank Somerville, as we’re learning of a November 2024 incident over which he’s now charged with battery, and the story sure is similar to what got him arrested again last month.

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California AG Rob Bonta Leading 16-State Revolt Against Trump’s Harsh Student Visa Restrictions

Trump trying to charge people $100,000 for visas is only one of his administration’s over-the-top new restrictions on visas, and state Attorney General Rob Bonta is leading a crusade to reverse the administration’s proposed new student visa rules.

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Coastal Enclave of Bolinas Gets Its Post Office Back After Multi-Year Closure

Up in West Marin, in a quiet, unincorporated town which doesn't have much to speak of besides a gallery and a couple of shops, they at least had their own post office for most of the last 60 years. But that ended in 2023, and one resident in particular held out hope they could bring it back.

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Coyotes Are Now Swimming More Than a Mile Back and Forth From Tiburon to Angel Island

The latest crazy coyote behavior in the SF Bay Area is that coyotes are swimming the more than one mile between Tiburon and Angel Island, and apparently somewhere between 14 and 17 coyotes now call Angel Island home.

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Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland Fire Burns Hundreds of Porta-Potties

A brush fire in Antioch grew to 290 acres and prompted an evacuation warning Wednesday; a fire in East Oakland burned hundreds of portable toilets; and SpaceX had another massive explosion on the launchpad.

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Day Around the Bay: SFPD Conducts Multiple Tenderloin Drug Busts

The SFPD made 25 arrests in coordinated drug raids in the Tenderloin; John Fisher is selling the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team; and there are still tickets for the SF Gay Men's Chorus Pride Concert this weekend.

SF Politics

Lurie Names New Planning Department Director, Seemingly Against Wishes of Half the Planning Commission

SF’s new Planning Department director is not off to a good start with the Planning Commission that she’ll work with, as half the commission stormed out of Wednesday morning’s vote to approve Sarah Dennis Phillips as that director.

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SF Just Got Another 'Magic Mushroom Church’ in Russian Hill

A “mushroom church” called the Rising Phoenix Entheogenic Temple just opened its second San Francisco location, some six months after a much larger mushroom church left town claiming they were the victims of “religious discrimination.”

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Muni Service Cuts Kick In Saturday, Five Bus Lines Getting Their Routes Trimmed

The 21-Hayes will cease to be, effective this Saturday, getting merged into a new line called the 6-Hayes-Parnassus, as five Muni lines are getting their routes snipped in hopes of cutting SFMTA’s ballooning budget deficit.

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Suspect Accused In Marina District Antisemitic Attack Charged With Hate Crime

A suspect in an antisemitic attack on two people last weekend in SF's Marina District has been charged with a hate crime and is being arraigned today.

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Here We Go Again — PG&E Says First Power Shutoffs of Fire Season ‘Likely’ This Weekend

A pretty wide net of PG&E customers in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara counties could see their first wildfire-related PG&E power shutoff of the season as early as Thursday, thanks to this weekend’s looming high winds and dry conditions.

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Humpday Headlines: More National Guard Troops Sent to LA For No Reason

Trump activates an additional 2,000 National Guard troops in LA; workers at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland are on strike over pay; and the SFMTA board voted on banning RV parking.

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Day Around the Bay: Waymo Inches Into a Couple More Peninsula Cities (But Still Can’t Go to SFO)

The “People’s March” is returning for 2025 but not at the same time as the Pride Parade; a prisoner who escaped from FCI Dublin in 1994 was finally arrested; and Waymo is now operating in six more cities along the Peninsula.