SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Killed By San Jose Police May Have Killed Child to Lure Them There A man who was fatally shot by San Jose police Sunday had allegedly just stabbed his own child and called police there; a Turkish Airlines flight to SFO had to divert due to a death onboard; and Obama tells Democrats to 'toughen up.'
SF News Garbage Piling Up In Bay Area Cities as Trash Collector Strike Enters Second Week Nearly two dozen Bay Area cities are among those nationwide being affected by the Republic Services trash collector strike, and some of these cities are being forced to get creative with dumpsters as the rubbish continues to stack up.
SF News Castro Walgreens Manager Found Guilty of Assaulting Shoplifter and Lacerating His Eye A Castro District Walgreens manager who took matters into his own hands and punched a shoplifter, which ended up cutting the shoplifter’s eye, has been found guilty of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury.
Business & Tech Turns Out, Meta's AI Data Centers Use Up a Lot of Water In Addition to Electricity Something that hasn't gotten enough attention is whether the entire AI enterprise is even sustainable, given how the computing power currently required, scaled upwards, uses incredible amounts of energy and water.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Three-Legged Dog Picnic Returns, This Time With Doggie Fashion Show Complete With Red Carpet, and We Have Photos What seems to be the world’s largest annual three-legged dog meetup returned Sunday and turned the Marina Green into the Em-bark-adero, and we’ve got pup-arazzi pics and video of these resilient dogs.
Arts & Entertainment 'Luigi: The Musical' Is as Silly as It Sounds, Also Kind of Subversive? 'Luigi: The Musical' has been something of an underground hit in San Francisco since debuting last month at the Taylor Street Theater. And while it's definitely dumb and quite rough around the edges, it is a subversive good time in line with drag parodies and the like.
SF News Green Fire North of Redding Grows to Over 12,000 Acres A Northern California wildfire that has been burning for two weeks now is just 5% contained, and has grown to nearly 12,000 acres, burning through Shasta National Forest, north of Lake Shasta.
SF News Port of SF Trying to Figure Out How to Complete Crane Cove Park Improvements Without Parks Alliance Funds Following the implosion of the SF Parks Alliance last month, the Port of San Francisco is now on the hook for $1.9 million in construction costs at Dogpatch's Crane Cove Park that were supposed to be covered by money in the nonprofit's coffers.
SF Politics SF City Hall Puts ChatGPT Tool to Work Across Multiple Departments Here in the capital of the AI boom, San Francisco, the city government has just rolled out a ChatGPT-powered tool for use by city workers — hopefully they'll still do their own fact-checking!
SF News Two Unrelated, Fatal Drownings Occur Within an Hour of Each Other Sunday In Russian River The deceivingly strong underwater currents of Sonoma County’s Russian River tragically claimed two more lives Sunday afternoon in separate incidents in Monte Rio and Forestville, and one of the victims was a teenage boy.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Fire In Fillmore District Leaves One Critical A Sunday night fire in the Fillmore District left one person in critical condition; a pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run in East Oakland; and someone hacked Elmo's Xitter account and started spewing hate speech.
SF News Bay Area Teens Spend Summer Innovating, Competing, and Coding for Impact Bay Area high schoolers are spending their summers building hardware, coding safety tools, and developing engineering projects — some for national competitions — through school programs and youth-led initiatives that foster real-world innovation.
SF News How California Volunteers Are Supporting Immigrants and Responding to ICE Across California, advocates are supporting immigrants at risk of detention by attending court, monitoring ICE activity, helping with legal paperwork, and assisting families with online hearing requests.
SF News Proposed Bill Would Allow Doctors Who Fail Drug Tests to Keep Practicing Without Discipline, Disclosure A proposed California law, AB 408, would let doctors with substance abuse issues avoid public discipline by entering a confidential diversion program — raising concerns about patient safety, failed oversight, and the potential for impaired physicians to continue practicing in secret.
SF News Sunday Links: Young Black Riders Take the Reins at Historic Bill Pickett Rodeo in Castro Valley Around 300 teens wreaked havoc on a Brentwood mall in the East Bay; a paraglider was rescued after they lost control and crash-landed at Daly City's Mussel Rock Park; and the national Bill Pickett Rodeo honors Black cowboy culture in the East Bay.
SF News Former North Bay Cop Found Guilty of Posing as Federal Agent to Rob Drivers of Weed, Cash A federal jury on Friday convicted former Rohnert Park police officer Joseph Huffaker on all six counts tied to a yearslong scheme in which he and other officers illegally stopped drivers on Highway 101 and stole their cannabis and cash — prior to the legalization of recreational cannabis.
SF News UC Berkeley Professor Fatally Shot by Masked Gunman in Broad Daylight While Visiting Kids in Greece A UC Berkeley professor was shot multiple times on July 4 in an Athens, Greece suburb by a masked gunman who reportedly fled in a waiting vehicle and remains at large. Authorities are investigating whether it was a targeted hit.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Valkyries Podcast, Audium’s 50th Anniversary, Hidden Alcatraz, and Bandaloop In this week's Field Notes: a Golden State Valkyries momcast, Audium’s 50th anniversary 176-speaker revival, Bandaloop in Oakland, Tamera Avery’s surreal art, the best swimming holes, Victorian towns, zany dioramas, and more.
SF News Saturday Links: Federal Judge Issues Restraining Order Blocking Race-Based ICE Raids Some South Bay high schools are working to educate students about using AI tools ethically while curbing cheating; former Emeryville mayor John Bauters is now a contestant on reality show, 'The Snake'; and a federal judge has blocked ICE from conducting indiscriminate raids.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Admin Erases Bi History From Stonewall Site After Earlier Trans Omission Berkeley Flea Market vendors are still setting up outside the Ashby BART station on the weekends; a worker was killed during Thursday's raid at Glass House Farms in SoCal; and references to bisexual people have been erased from the Stonewall Memorial site.
Business & Tech The Grok Chatbot Is Apparently Programmed to Check for Elon Musk's Opinions to Answer Questions Well well. Should it be at all shocking to learn that Elon Musk's xAI has built an AI chatbot that essentially seeks to parrot Musk's own views of the world whenever it gets the chance?
SF News Video: Nutty Robbery Suspect Driver Dashes Wrong Way on Bay Bridge in July 4 Melee An alleged July 4 robbery in SF led to some fleeing suspects evading police, and SFPD just released wild drone video of the suspects trying to get away by driving the wrong direction across the Bay Bridge into oncoming traffic.
Business & Tech Good News for Union Square, as Bang & Olufsen Is Returning, in the Old Britex Fabrics Location Danish luxury electronics retailer Bang & Olufsen actually closed their Union Square store long before the pandemic and subsequent downtown SF downturn, but they're coming back this October in the former Geary Street Britex Fabrics space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A New Dogpatch Hotspot Takes Shape Details on the new project from the Lord Stanley team, Osito's chef Seth Stowaway has launched a dining club, and the Chronicle reviews two reopened classic SF restaurants, all in This Week in Food.
SF News More Homeless Individuals Traveling Out to SF Airport at Night (Again) In what appears to be an echo of a trend that was happening before the pandemic, likely spurred by increased hassling by police and outreach workers in the city, SFO has been seeing increased numbers of homeless people taking the train there and hanging out, or sleeping.
