SF News Sunday Links: Missing Utah Woman Who Disappeared Near Santa Cruz Beach Found Safe Another person has gone missing at the same spot in Big Sur as the father and daughter killed last week; Antioch is using a special desalination process to treat brackish water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta; and Danielle Staley has been found safe after disappearing on November 6.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Locker Room Bullying Prompts Forfeiture of Antioch High School Football Game Amazon laid off 780 Bay Area workers this week and twice as many layoffs are coming next year; two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to continue funding SNAP payments; and several Antioch High School football players were allegedly caught on camera bullying another student.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ‘Yellow Fever’ Mosquito Spotted in Antioch, Residents Urged to Dump Standing Water NASA lost track of one of its probes, which ended up on a Texas farm; the SF Bar Association says SF DA Brooke Jenkins is creating a hostile environment for judges; and the “yellow fever” mosquito is thriving in Antioch thanks to the rain.
SF News Saturday Links: Extended 101 Carpool Hours Blamed for North Bay Traffic ‘Carmageddon’ The Cupertino Whole Foods that had multiple pest infestations is set to reopen soon; new research from Stanford found that wildfire smoke is the most dangerous aspect of climate change in the US; and North Bay commuters are experiencing average speeds of 15 miles an hour along Highway 101.
SF News 15-Year-Old Antioch Teen Shot and Killed at July 4 Block Party In SF's Bayview Antioch 15-year-old Tyrell Washington was visiting SF’s Bayview District on July 4 to be with friends and family. He was among five people shot at a block party there, and he’s the only one who did not survive.
SF News Illegal Fireworks Spark Dozens of Bay Area Fires on July 4th, Injuring Several and Killing Two Dogs Illegal fireworks ignited dozens of fires across the Bay Area on the Fourth of July — from Oakland and Alameda to Antioch and San Jose — with Oakland Fire Department responding to more than 60 fires.
SF News Antioch Police Fatally Shoot Man Outside Home After Alleged Threats Police in Antioch fatally shot a man who they say was armed with a knife on a suburban street Monday morning, and the man may have been having a mental health crisis.
SF News Former Antioch Cop Gets Seven Years In Prison for Siccing K9 on Suspects, Fraudulently Getting a Pay Raise The longest prison sentence yet in the ongoing Antioch Police Department scandals came down Tuesday, as a now-former officer who ordered grisly K9 attacks and falsified work to get a pay raise has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
SF News 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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SUV Hits Parked DOT Vehicles in Deadly San Mateo Bridge Crash Late disco legend Sylvester's former Twin Peaks condo is on the market; the Ashby BART station flea market may close at the end of June; and a driver was killed when their speeding SUV crashed into parked San Mateo DOT vehicles.
SF News Antioch Grandfather Will Face Felony Charges for Letting Three-Year-Old Shoot and Kill Himself The grandfather who somehow allowed a three-year-old toddler to access a loaded gun and shoot himself will indeed face felony charges of child endangerment and criminal storage of a firearm.
SF News East Bay Developer Charged With Trying to Bribe Antioch City Councilmember With Coffee Mug Full of $5,000 Cash A Concord-based housing developer was stalled on city permits in Antioch because they hadn't completed some other required work. So their CEO allegedly tried to bribe a city councilmember with $15,000, $5,000 of which was straight-up cash crammed into a coffee mug.
SF News Police Pursuit In Antioch Leads to Deadly Four-Car Crash Yet another police chase has led to yet another death in the East Bay after a wrong-way crash near the Antioch Bridge Tuesday night led to multiple collisions.
SF News Antioch Police to Recommend Charging Grandfather of Three-Year-Old Boy Who Shot and Killed Himself Antioch police think they’ve determined how a three-year-old boy acquired a gun and shot and killed himself last week, and they are pushing for gun-handling charges against the toddler’s grandfather.
SF News Three-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots Himself In Antioch The Antioch Police Department is looking for answers over how a three-year-old boy came into possession of a gun at his grandparents' house, after the youngster shot himself in the face Tuesday night, and died shortly thereafter at a hospital.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Elvira Donates Tesla With 'Elon Sux' Painted On It To NPR Trump issued an executive order calling for swathes of US national forests to be used for timber; Elvira donated her Tesla to NPR while wearing a "Make America Goth Again" hat; and a San Mateo substitute teacher was arrested for possession of child pornography.
SF News Scandal-Plagued Antioch PD Gets Yet Another New Acting Police Chief, Plus Federal Oversight The City of Antioch welcomes its third interim police chief in 18 months through its revolving door, and new Chief Joe Vigil will have the department's racist text scandal and a new federal oversight monitor to deal with.
SF News New Year's Eve Links: Drive-By Shooting In Antioch A drive-by shooting in Antioch left behind 53 shell casings but no one was injured; a house fire near Hayward left a firefighter injured; and the Watsonville man killed by storm debris on a Santa Cruz beach has been identified.
SF News Shootout at Antioch Bowling Alley Leaves Two People Dead A Saturday night shootout at the Delta Bowl in Antioch has left two people dead, and they apparently both shot each other in some sort of dispute in the bowling alley’s parking lot.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 10-Year-Old Girl Stops Carjacking In Antioch A 10-year-old girl thwarted a carjacking in Antioch; there have been over 100 delays reported so far today at SFO; and Apple is racing to release a more conversational version of Siri to compete with ChatGPT.
SF News Antioch Man Arrested After Mother and Brother Found Dead and Decomposing In Home They Shared Antioch police made a gruesome discovery Wednesday afternoon when they were performing a welfare check at a home near the DeltaFair Shopping Center.
SF News Oakland PD Officer Placed On Leave After Giant Illegal Marijuana Grow Found in His Antioch Home Last week CNN ran a report detailing that more than 50 very nice houses in Antioch were just giant hidden illegal pot grow operations, with no one living in the houses. Now it turns out one of those homes is owned by an Oakland police officer.
SF News Antioch Passes a Ban on Encouraging or Even Watching Sideshows The East Bay city of Antioch is struggling with too few cops and too many sideshows, but its city council just unanimously passed a ban on advertising, promoting, encouraging, or even watching a sideshow.
SF News 13 Antioch Police Officers Fired or Resigned As Racist Text Scandal Fallout Continues A number of Antioch Police Department officers are facing federal charges over racist texts and violent behavior on the job, and the city just cleaned house of many of them, with a total of 13 officers either being fired or resigning because the hammer was about to come down on them.
SF News Antioch Mayor Says Police Got Drone Footage of This Weekend’s Sideshows, Vows Arrests and Impoundings A rash of East Bay sideshows this weekend involved one in Oakland with a hit-and-run, but the mayor of Antioch claims he sicced drones on one of the sideshows, and he’ll bring the daredevil drivers to justice.
