The Bay Area saw no new COVID-19 deaths today for the first time in three weeks, a local bartender and spirits maker was arrested on child porn charges, and the Richmond man found eating his dead grandmother has been charged with her murder.
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- President Trump implored ardent supporters at a rally Wednesday behind the White House to walk to the Capitol Building and "show strength" and "fight." Many of them have, and some breached the Capitol Wednesday afternoon.
- Ravenous riders flooded SF's Embarcadero Station yesterday to snack and protest the fact that a man was handcuffed for literally eating a breakfast sandwich on BART's Pleasant Hill platform earlier in the week; it was a modern-day “eat-in,” if you will. sfist.com/2019/11/10/bar…
- Thailand’s Number One pop star is set to perform the halftime show at the Warriors’ regular season home finale against the Lakers, and the Dubs need whatever help they can get after losing four straight.
- Martin Shkreli Pelted With Poop At UC Davis As Yiannopoulos Event Gets Canceled Amid Protest sfist.com/2017/01/14/mar…
- In an unprecedented statewide move, Governor Gavin Newsom announced in a press conference Sunday that he's ordering all bars, breweries, and wineries in the state to close, regardless of their size, for an indeterminate amount of time.
- A brush fire prompts evacuations in Potrero Hill, a woman was killed Thursday night near McLaren Park, a protest is scheduled Saturday on the Golden Gate Bridge, and Twitter bans a Trump campaign video about George Floyd.
- Convicted killer John Lee Cowell, who was found guilty in March of first-degree murder in the July 2018 stabbing of Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station, was sentenced today to life in prison.
- CNN will continue its Fox News tilt this Sunday night with an hour-long special called ‘What Happened to San Francisco?’ a mini-documentary determined to push the “failed city” narrative.
- When Target announced they were closing an SF store in SoMa, they blamed “theft and organized retail crime.” Uhh, turns out that Target had the least reported crime of any Target store in the entire Bay Area.
- The In-N-Out restaurant in Pleasant Hill has now had its food-service permit revoked by the county, and at least two more East Bay locations may be next in line if the company continues openly defying vaccine-check rules.
- Our thoughts go out to longtime local TV reporter Dan Noyes, who was attacked Sunday by teens in the Presidio — but he foiled their attempt to steal his bike by threatening to put them on TV.
