Friday Morning Constitutional: School Board Throws $6M More at Payroll Problem

SFist News 12/9 5:49A Jay Barmann

The SF school board just voted Thursday night to authorize $6 million more to the contract to fix its broken payroll system. The original no-bid contract with Alvarez & Marsal was $2.8 million, to fix the mess of the EmPower system that has left...

San Jose tees up massive golf course development

KRON4 12/9 5:43A Bay City News

SAN JOSE, Calif. (BCN)-- The San Jose City Council has opened the door for a developer who wants to build thousands of homes on a massive former golf course on the East Side. In a unanimous decision this week, the council voted to loosen traffic...

Man accused of selling drugs to high school students arrested

KRON4 12/9 5:23A John Ferrannini

SUNNYVALE, Calif. ( KRON ) - When Sunnyvale police executed a search warrant on a man accused of selling narcotics to high school students, they found weapons, narcotics and cash according to a tweet . Brandon Sanchez-Mejia, 22, was arrested "on...

Vallejo police investigate Thursday morning homicide

KRON4 12/9 5:01A John Ferrannini

VALLEJO, Calif. ( KRON ) - Vallejo police are investigating a Thursday morning homicide, according to a press release. Officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 1600 block of Tennessee Street around 5:34 a.m. When they arrived, they...

Daly City police investigating commercial burglary at restaurant

KRON4 12/9 5:01A Bay City News

DALY CITY, Calif. (BCN)-- Police in Daly City are investigating a commercial burglary that occurred last week at a restaurant. The burglary occurred at Tom San Ramen overnight between 11:40 p.m. on Nov. 30 and 10:20 a.m. on Dec. 1, according to...

Santa Cruz County looking for artist to create public art at multi-use pathway

KRON4 12/9 4:52A Bay City News

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (BCN)-- Santa Cruz County is looking for an artist to create a public art component for the Green Valley Road multi-use pathway that connects Watsonville and unincorporated areas of Santa Cruz County to schools, parks, social...

Suspect arrested in connection with battery, other crimes in Petaluma

KRON4 12/9 4:44A Bay City News

PETALUMA, Calif. (BCN)-- Police in Petaluma on Thursday arrested a man in connection with battering two men in a hotel parking lot. Kyler Udell, 27, of Fairfield, was arrested on suspicion of robbery, false imprisonment and battery resulting in...

Great Highway to remain car free on weekends

KRON4 12/9 4:27A Sara Stinson and John Ferrannini

SAN FRANCISCO ( KRON ) - San Francisco supervisors voted to keep the Great Highway car free on weekends until 2025. It's been car free for about a year-and-a-half from Friday at noon to Monday at 6 a.m. — the city has been debating if it should...

California average wages projected to top 6 figures soon

KRON4 12/9 3:32A and Nexstar Media Wire

DENVER ( KDVR ) — Californians will be among the nation's top earners in the next decade if payroll analysts are correct. Tipalti, a payroll and expense automation company, analyzed wages and wage growth among U.S. states for the last decade....

Former NYT columnist Bari Weiss releases ‘Twitter Files Part Two’

KRON4 12/9 1:55A Julia Shapero

Former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss released the second installment of the “Twitter Files” on Thursday night, sharing images of accounts that Twitter allegedly placed on various types of “blacklists.” Weiss posted several images of what...

Fizzling voting rights push angers Black lawmakers

KRON4 12/9 1:53A Mike Lillis

The move by House Democratic leaders to fast-track a defense policy bill without tackling voting rights has ruffled some members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who saw the must-pass Pentagon package as their last best chance to address...

These 10 House Republicans flipped their votes on the same-sex marriage bill

KRON4 12/9 1:49A Jared Gans and The Hill via Nexs

( The Hill ) -- The House has sent the Respect for Marriage Act to President Joe Biden’s desk after all Democrats and 39 Republicans in the body voted to support the bill. The legislation, which passed in a 258-169-1 vote, would officially repeal...

Paul Whelan’s family speaks after Griner prisoner swap

KRON4 12/9 1:47A and Nexstar Media Wire

( NewsNation ) — Each morning, the U.S. national anthem echoes from the walls of detained American citizen Paul Whelan's Russian prison cell. "He gets up every morning and sings the national anthem, I think as much to irritate the guards as to...

Sinema leaving Democratic Party, will register as independent

KRON4 12/9 1:38A Geoffrey Rowland and The Hill vi

( The Hill ) -- Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has announced that she will leave the Democratic Party and officially register as an independent. “I’ve registered as an Arizona independent. I know some people might be a little bit surprised by this,...

Brittney Griner is back in the U.S.

KRON4 12/9 12:52A

Brittney Griner has returned to the United States, nearly 10 months after the basketball star’s detention in Russia made her the most high-profile American jailed abroad and set off a political firestorm. Griner’s status as an openly gay Black...