SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Chakrabarti Going All In For Chan Saikat Chakrabarti has turned his campaign into a PAC supporting Connie Chan; the Giants could be giving its evangelical players a pass over those Pride Night hats; and why are there so many shopping carts stuck in Colma Creek marsh?
SF News Day Around the Bay: SoCal Faults Reach Historic Stress Levels, According to Study Stress has grown to the highest levels in 1,000 years on the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults; a mountain lion has been captured in Redwood City; and a restaurant co-owned by E-40 was robbed on Sunday.
Bay Area Sports Self-Described 'Christian' Homophobes In Giants' Bullpen Deface Pride Night Hats Well, the San Francisco Giants' pitching staff isn't winning any fans in the Bay Area's very large LGBTQ+ community, and several of them used Friday night's Pride Night game to show a quiet act of protest over the team's annual gesture of inclusivity.
SF News UC Berkeley Police Arrest Man Suspected of Sexually Assaulting 11-Year-Old Camper In Dorm A 27-year-old man believed to be a camp counselor was arrested Saturday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a child camper overnight in a UC Berkeley dorm, and his resume indicates he’s worked at a long list of local schools.
Arts & Entertainment Fireworks to Happen on Golden Gate Bridge For Nation's 250th on July 4th For the first time in 14 years, and only the third time ever, there will be a big fireworks show on the Golden Gate Bridge to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday on July 4th.
SF News Laney, Merritt Colleges Announce Merger After Spring Classes End, Blindsiding Faculty and Students In an effort to address steep enrollment declines, Merritt and Laney colleges abruptly announced plans to merge under the new “Oakland City College” name by next fall, while keeping both campuses open — a move that left students and faculty blindsided.
Bay Area Sports The Government of Qatar Gave All-Expense-Paid Trips to 1,000 Qatari Soccer Fans, Had Them March In SF Most countries don't pay for their fans' travel to see World Cup matches, but then most countries aren't as wealthy as Qatar and hoping to make a splash in their first World Cup that they actually qualified for.
SF Politics Newsom Says Trump Is Now Having DOJ Investigate Him and His Wife Next on the list of political enemies whom President Donald Trump has pettily sought to intimidate or punish using the Department of Justice is Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
Business & Tech Over 100 Stanford Grads Disrupt Google CEO’s Commencement Speech Over Contract With Israel As Sundar Pichai began his commencement address at Stanford University Sunday, more than 100 graduates staged a walkout, blowing whistles and chanting in protest of Google’s Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government.
SF News Trader Joe's Theft Suspect Killed In Struggle With Police Was Former Store Employee The details remain unclear surrounding a Friday death on Nob Hill in which SFPD officers were seen wrestling with an alleged thief outside the Trader Joe's, a struggle that ended with the two officers and the suspect all struck by a passing vehicle on California Street.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Fire Near Altamont Pass Quickly Contained A wildfire grew to 22 acres near the Altamont Pass Sunday afternoon; there were multiple big sideshows around San Jose Saturday night; and World Cup fans swarmed Levi's Stadium for the first match there between Qatar and Switzerland.
SF News Suspect in Two Unsolved California Homicides Captured in Laos, Extradited Back to Santa Clara to Stand Trial On Friday, a rare joint release from two California counties confirmed that 31-year-old Myung Jin Kim was arrested in Laos and extradited back to California earlier this week to face prosecution in Santa Clara and Orange County in relation to two unsolved fatal shootings from the past decade.
Bay Area Sports Former 49ers All-Pro Pass Rusher Aldon Smith Found Dead at 36 On Saturday morning, 49ers All-Pro pass rusher Aldon Smith was found unresponsive in the front passenger seat of his pickup truck by a friend in Los Gatos. Less than an hour later, the former No. 7 overall NFL draft pick in 2011 was declared dead at San Jose's Good Samaritan Hospital. He was 36.
morning links Sunday Links: San Jose Car Crash Leaves One Dead, Three Injured A car crash in San Jose left one dead and three injured after the driver reportedly ran a red trying to evade police, Vallejo's Six Flags Discovery Kingdom suffers power outage, and beloved film critic Gene Shalit dies at 100.
SF News Vigil at SF Castro Honors Pulse Nightclub Victims on 10-Year-Anniversary of Mass Shooting On Friday, a vigil was held at San Francisco's Castro Theatre in remembrance of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida that left 49 people dead a decade ago. The annual gathering marked a major milestone this year as people gathered to recognize the tenth anniversary of the tragedy.
SF News San Jose Police Allege Suspect Knew Female Victim In Fatal Stabbing Officials with the SJPD’s Homicide Unit released a statement following a fatal stabbing at a North San Jose apartment complex late Thursday night that left one woman dead and another man injured. Authorities now allege that the unidentified male at the scene was responsible and knew the victim.
SF News Saturday Links: SFFD Mounts Daring 7-Hour Cliffside Rescue at Dead Man's Point SFFD mounts a daring overnight rescue of hiker trapped at Land's End; baby penguins arrive at SF Zoo; and SF Giants pitcher Landen Roupp reps a bible verse for Pride.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Found Dead in Bushes on UC Berkeley Campus UC Berkeley gardeners discover body in bushes on campus; SFPD fears a rise in Pokemon card robberies; and "Last Black Man in San Francisco" director Joe Talbot drops a new ad for his favorite city.
Arts & Entertainment Actor Colman Domingo Met His Husband In Berkeley Through a ‘Missed Connections’ Ad In 2005 A-list actor Colman Domingo recently reflected on meeting his husband through a rom-com–worthy “Missed Connections” encounter in Berkeley, as well as on his younger days living in SF in the 90s.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Farewell to Shuggie's and Anomaly, Bonjour to Esme It's a week that has seen three high-profile closure announcements as well as fire-caused closure at Che Fico, but on the brighter side, Esme is now softly open on Divis, and we have more in This Week In Food.
SF News Chinese Authorities Arrest UC Berkeley Foreign Policy Scholar, Alleging He’s a Spy A month after Trump told China's leader that Americans were spying “like hell” on the country, a scholar at UC Berkeley, who fled Myanmar in the '90s, was arrested in China on suspicion of espionage.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Students Reimagine the World Cup Vuvuzela With a Quieter ‘Pleasant Horn’ A more compact and pleasant-sounding alternative to the ear-splitting vuvuzela has arrived, thanks to a group of enterprising engineering students at Diablo Valley College in the East Bay.
SF News One Dead After Fiery Crash In Which Vehicle Flew Off Overpass In SF One person died and four others were injured in a fiery crash Thursday night just after midnight, in between SF's Dogpatch and Potrero Hill neighborhoods.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Temporarily Closed Due to Damage From Thursday Fire Chef-owner David Nayfeld said in a social media video Friday morning that Divisadero hot spot Che Fico, which had a fire in a chimney flue Thursday, suffered some damage and will have to close for an indeterminate period of time.
SF News Massive Blaze In Tracy Destroys One-Million-Square-Foot Warehouse, No Injuries Reported Fortunately no one was injured when a one-million-square-foot Tracy warehouse owned by a medical supply distributor was rapidly engulfed in flames Thursday, after a fire broke out on the roof and caused it to collapse.
