SF News Families of 2024 West Portal Crash Victims Move Forward With Civil Suits Against Mary Lau Elderly driver Mary Lau will have to explain what happened in the 2024 West Portal crash that killed a family of four in two civil lawsuits filed by relatives of the family last year, and jurors will determine monetary damages, following Lau’s sentence in criminal court last Friday.
SF News Elderly Driver Who Killed Family of Four in 2024 West Portal Crash Avoids Jail Time A San Francisco judge sentenced the elderly driver who killed a young family of four in West Portal in 2024 to two years of probation, 200 hours of mandatory community service, and revoked her license for three years, and family members our outraged by the light sentence.
SF News Vigil Held For Family Killed In 2024 West Portal Crash as Lurie’s 100-Day Safety Deadline Nears Family members held a vigil Thursday honoring the family of four that was tragically killed by a driver in West Portal two years ago, and advocacy groups are reminding Mayor Daniel Lurie that the 100-day deadline on his Street Safety Initiative is next week.
SF News Driver In West Portal Crash That Killed Family of Four Pleads No Contest, Judge Sounds Lenient The elderly woman accused of killing a family of four with her vehicle two years ago in West Portal changed her plea Friday from not guilty to no contest, and the judge indicated that she was unlikely to get jail time.
SF News Elderly Driver In Horrific West Portal Crash That Killed Family of Four Heads to Court Seeking Lesser Charges The now 79- or 80-year-old woman who is accused of mowing down a family of four with her car in West Portal two years ago will be in court Friday hoping to have her charges reduced to misdemeanors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Last Squat & Gobble Set to Close After 32 Years Squat & Gobble, the local creperie chain that long outlived a crepe trend that swept the country decades ago, and even outlived that trend's 90s resurgence, is having its swan song this week at its last remainin location in West Portal.
SF News West Portal's Long-Shuttered Empire Cinema Could Become Nine-Story, 64-Unit Housing Complex Under New Proposal The former CineArts at the Empire on West Portal Avenue is just a one-story structure, but could become a nine-story housing complex with 64 units under a just-announced proposal from the family that has long owned the building.
SF News Driver Accused In Killing Family of Four In West Portal Now Accused of Hiding Wealth The elderly woman at the center of a vehicular homicide case and a civil wrongful death case stemming from the horrific March 24 crash at West Portal that killed a family of four is now accused of trying to shield her wealth from the wrongful death suit.
Business & Tech SF-Based Hims & Hers Healthcare Company, Founded By Owner of New West Portal Doughnut Shop, Donates to Trump Inauguration Hims & Hers Health, the SF-based telehealth startup founded by Andrew Dudum, just kicked $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration fund, perhaps because they're concerned about the administration's future plans when it comes to mail-order drugs.
SF News Car Plows Into Front of Walgreens In West Portal, Store Temporarily Closed A car drove into the front of a Walgreens in West Portal Wednesday morning, causing some damage to the building, and minorly injuring two people.
SF News West Portal Intersection That Was Scene of Deadly Crash Sees New Design Changes Changes have now been implemented at the West Portal intersection where a family of four was killed by an apparently out-of-control, speeding driver in March, but some in the neighborhood doubt these changes will make them safer.
SF News 78-Year-Old Woman Charged With Four Counts of Vehicular Manslaughter in West Portal Crash That Killed Family The tragic March crash that killed a family of four will result in vehicular homicide charges against 78-year-old Mary Fong Lau, who was reportedly driving her SUV at double the speed limit, and in the wrong lane at that.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Raved About the Pozole at Elena's, Chronicle Critic Was Not Impressed Associate Chronicle restaurant critic Cesar Hernandez has lodged one notable difference of opinion with former critic Michael Bauer, who continues to make restaurant recommendations on Instagram.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Sting Operation Targets Drivers In West Portal SF city leaders gathered for the annual 1906 earthquake commemoration at Lotta's Fountain this morning; police conducted a sting in West Portal targeting non-yielding drivers; and 23andMe might be taken private.
SF News Infant Dies From Injuries In West Portal Crash, Marking Fourth Victim From the Same Family On Wednesday evening, city officials confirmed that the three-month-old who was gravely injured in Saturday's crash in West Portal has died.
SF News Elderly Woman Arrested on Manslaughter Charges In Connection With West Portal Collision A 78-year-old woman was booked Sunday on suspicion of multiple charges in connection with the deadly crash in West Portal Saturday afternoon that claimed three members of a family.
SF News West Portal Bus Stop Crash Claims Third Life, Fourth Victim Still Hospitalized Three members of a young SF family, including the married parents and a young child, have reportedly died from injuries sustained while waiting at an SF bus station that an SUV struck Saturday afternoon.
SF News [Updated] Deadly Accident In West Portal Kills Three Three people, all members of a family, died in a car accident Saturday just outside West Portal Station in San Francisco.
SF News Three-Alarm Fire In West Portal Leads to Partial Building Collapse A fire broke out on a roof Monday on the commercial corridor of San Francisco's West Portal Avenue, and so far no injuries have been reported but the fire has caused a partial collapse of a building.
SF News Late-Night Weekend Sideshows Roil Quiet Neighborhoods of West Portal, Outer Sunset Two ‘hoods that do not see many sideshows were both hit with them this past weekend, as both West Portal and the Outer Sunset hosted uninvited sideshows late Saturday night and early Sunday morning.
SF Politics West Portal Stalking Case In Which Charges Were Dropped Provides More Fodder For SF Criminal Justice Critics A case involving a mentally ill man and a 15-year-old girl who says he stalked, grabbed, and generally terrified her one afternoon last year in West Portal is giving the Chronicle's Heather Knight more reason to rally critics of SF's criminal justice system.
Arts & Entertainment West Portal Movie Theater CineArts at Empire Has Permanently Closed The historic Empire Cinema in West Portal, now over 95 years old, is in search of a new operator, as Cinemark has decided not to renew its lease and to close its CineArts at Empire theater.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink West Portal Candy Shop Shaw's, Famed for PEZ Dispenser Display, Closes After 89 Years A candy shop that's been the delight of youngsters and the young at heart since 1931 has quietly closed its doors in West Portal.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: West Portal Cleans Up After Saturday Flood A tourist from SF captured the eruption of the White Island volcano on camera, BART police are conducting sweeps for fare evaders at Embarcadero, and the 49ers eked out a dramatic win against the Saints.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved West Portal Dive Portals Tavern is Closing After 82 Years Another cherished relic of Old San Francisco is biting the dust as news arrives that Portals Tavern in West Portal is closing its doors at the end of August.
