Thursday Morning What's Up: Streets to Close for SF Marathon This Weekend
Jul 23, 2026
Prepare for street closures this weekend for the San Francisco Marathon. Closures for the race, which takes runners across the Golden Gate Bridge and back, begin around 9 pm Saturday and last until 3 pm on Sunday. [SFGate]Phoeun Pen, the Cambodian chef behind the popular Oakland pop-up Kathiew House
, says she is pausing the pop-up after a break-in at her home. An intruder stole cash and jewelry from her home, she says, before sexually assaulting her 16-year-old son, who was asleep at the time of the break-in. [KTVU]The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office ruled on Wednesday that two San Jose police officers acted lawfully in fatally shooting Mateusz Dzierbun, the knife-wielding father who was found with his dead son in Cataldi Park last July, and who reportedly charged at the arriving officers after calling them there. [KTVU]Local HIV-prevention organizations, including the SF AIDS Foundation, say they've been blindsided by the Trump administration ending a grant program that was started under the first Trump administration, which they were counting on getting renewed. [Chronicle]A Bay Area man who was convicted in 2023 of defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program during the pandemic to the tune of $1 million just had his conviction tossed by the Ninth Circuit based on the expressed bias of a juror. [Cal Matters]A 68-year-old Bay Area doctor, Qing Tang-Oxley, bought a small strip of land in Bodega Bay that was previously thought to be unbuildable, and with an architect's help built a 730-square-foot home on stilts that looks quite nice, though it cost about $2.2 million. [New York Times]Top image: Photo courtesy of SF Marathon/Facebook
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