SF News Five Years Later, Oakland High School Grads Reflect on How COVID Wrecked Their High School Years As we approach the five-year COVID lockdown anniversary, a New York Times feature talks to a dozen Oakland Technical High School grads about how it affected them to spend their prime teen years stuck in their room, and just on Zoom.
SF News SFPD Arrests Gang of Teens, One of Them Just 12 Years Old, for String of Walgreens Robberies Totaling $84,000 Eight minors from across the Bay Area, one of them only 12 years old, have been arrested and charged for 23 separate Walgreens robberies in which their estimated alleged stolen loot totaled $84,000 worth.
SF News 14-Year-Old Girl Killed, 11-Year-Old Critically Injured in Richmond Stolen Car Crash Three teens and an 11-year-old were in a stolen Infinity G35 that crashed into two trees and a pole in Richmond early Monday morning, leaving a 14-year-old girl dead, and her 11-year-old sister hospitalized.
Business & Tech Instagram Tightens Up Protections on Teen Accounts, Adds Major Restrictions for Users 16 and Under After years of criticism over online bullying, ads that stoke depression, and predators chasing teens on the platform, Menlo Park-based Instagram is tightening up the controls over what teens can see when they log in.
SF News Teen Daredevils Face Jail Time For Golden Gate Bridge Shenanigans You might recall soiling your pants back in mid-May while watching the exhilarating but phenomenally stupid viral video, seen above, of two teen bros who climbed the Golden Gate Bridge, then did all
SF News Teen Who Scaled Golden Gate Bridge Offers His Security Services To Bridge Authority The 18-year-old who goes by the name Peter Teatime (not his real name?) is making the media rounds following the video he made with a friend going viral featuring them climbing to the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Teen Daredevils Climb To Top Of Golden Gate Bridge, Dangle From Cables Proving just how easy it is to jump a fence, enter the restricted area, and climb the main cables all the way to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge's towers, two teens
SF News Leaked Facebook Document Suggests Plan To Target Ads To Teens Feeling 'Worthless' And 'Insecure' A leaked document from Facebook's Australia office, marked confidential and authored by two Australian Facebook executives, purported to show potential advertisers how to target to teens as young as 14 when they were
SF News Teen Driver Plunges Car Into Santa Clara Pool Sometimes it's best to jump in at the deep end of the pool... especially when you're driving a car that would bottom out in the shallow end. That was one shred of luck
SF News Cool Kid Microsoft Wants Its 'Bae Interns' To Get 'Lit On A Monday Night' An email sent by Microsoft is enough to make one wonder if the company restarted its ill-fated (racist/pot-head) tween Twitter-bot Tay and then gave it a recruiting job. In an attempt to
SF News Deplorable Teen Allegedly Pretends To Be Midwestern Adult, Trashes Oakland Airbnb Who could have seen this going so terribly, terribly wrong? An Oakland couple rented their home via Airbnb for New Year's Eve to someone they thought was a middle-aged man from Chicago, only
Arts & Entertainment A Look Inside SF's Creepshow Summer Camp For Kids The South of Market parking lot of the Hypnodrome is splattered with multiple pools of blood at 1 p.m. on a Monday. “You can see we did blood bags this morning,” says
SF News Trial Begins In Case Of Bay Area Teenager Who Killed Herself After Being Humiliated And Bullied The parents of Audrie Pott, the 15-year-old girl who took her own life in 2012 eight days after an incident of sexual assault and subsequent humiliation by several boys, are entering the final
SF News S.F. Catholic School Cuts Girl's Yearbook Photo Over Tuxedo San Francisco's Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep school got a thwhack from the social media ruler this week after the school banned a girl's yearbook photo because she decided to wear a tuxedo. According
SF News Are Selfies Causing Head Lice Infestations Among Teens? A Scotts Valley lice expert claims that selfies, the white-hot teen sensation sweeping the nation in 2010, are causing an uptick in lice infestations among the younger generation. Is your filthy teen at
SF News Oakland Girl Brain Dead After Routine Tonsil Surgery The parents of an Oakland girl are seeking answers after their daughter, 13-year-old Jahi McMath, underwent routine tonsil surgery last week but later was pronounced brain dead. According to reports, "hospital staff have
SF News Agender Teen Burned On Oakland Bus Speaks Out For The First Time For the first time since the terrible incident in which Oakland teenager Sasha Fleishman had his clothing burned at the hands of another teenager in what appears, by all accounts, to be a
SF News Facebook Looks To Monetize Teenagers' Posts By Easing Privacy Rules Barely a week after we learned that Google Plus is going to start making us opt out of having our thoughts and personal reviews used by corporations in "social ads," Facebook has turned
SF News Prop. 8 Creep Now Targeting Trans Teens The man behind Prop. 8 may have suffered a setback when his anti-gay marriage campaign was thwarted earlier this year, but Frank Shubert isn't letting that get him down. He's now ramping up
SF News Reason #758392 To Never Leave The City Suburban teens. They're deplorable. For example... #Pleasanton PD will hold news conference at 9:30a.m. to update man beaten into coma after he asked teens to quiet down in front of his
SF News Teen Shot, Killed In Ingleside Shortly after getting off an M Ocean View line at the corner of Randolph and Bright streets, an unidentified 19-year-old man was shot and killed. The shooting happened at around 10 p.m.
SF News Teens Now Asking For Free Rides On Twitter From the annals of "Good Ideas Teenagers Have" comes this latest trend: teens who missed the bus are now hopping on Twitter to get a ride to school. Of course, the genius plan
SF News Video: Deplorable Teen Girls Fight On Muni Bus We're not sure what's more depressing here: the horrible teens fighting on a packed 5 Fulton bus or the poor eyewitness suffering from VVS. Nevertheless, this fight was caught on camera the earlier
SF News Video: Two Teenage Girls Punch, Rob Older Woman On Muni SF MTA just released footage of two teen girls attacking and robbing a woman on the T-Third line last week. The young hooligans went after the 67-year-old passenger at around 8:30 p.
SF News 'Rainbow Girls' Are No 'Bling Ring,' Says SFist Editor A group of young girls, christened by the media as the "Rainbow Girls," have been robbing high-end stores at the Westfield Centre and in Union Square. Also, they're totally lame and nothing compared
