Son of a Castle Douglas chemist and former President of Ghana dies

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are paying tribute to a legend. Douglas lost his father, Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas, in February at the age of 103.

Sam Heughan 's new whisky will officially be available in the UK from tomorrow. The Outlander star revealed last year he would be bringing out a new whisky called Sassenach and now the wait is finally over for UK fans.

Donald Trump is tapping a series of donors, supporters and other figures to fill spots on the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Former President Barack Obama will sit for an interview on Showtime’s Desus & Mero this Sunday, the latest stop on the A Promised Land author’s TV book tour.

Traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge slowed to a crawl Saturday afternoon because of a protest caravan supporting the struggles of farmers in India, according to reports.  The jam was reported just before 2 p.m. PT and had started to ease up around 5:30 p.m., according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton are volunteering to get their COVID-19 vaccines on camera as soon as the US Food and Drug Administration authorizes one for public use.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has officially joined the ranks of public officials who have been busted for breaking their own coronavirus guidelines. A Tuesday report from the San Francisco Chronicle says that the mayor dined at the upscale French Laundry restaurant the day after California Gov.

Mayor Sam Liccardo, of San Jose, Calif., apologized Tuesday for spending Thanksgiving with his family in apparent violation of state coronavirus rules and said he will “commit do better.” NBC Bay Area first broke the news of Liccardo’s Thanksgiving Day visit to his parent’s home in Saratoga – about 15 miles southwest of San Jose.

San Jose, Calif., Mayor Sam Liccardo reportedly visited his elderly parents' Saratoga home for Thanksgiving in apparent disregard of the county's COVID-19 holiday travel warnings, according to NBC Bay Area. The mayor's press team initially told NBC Bay Area that Liccardo was staying home for Thanksgiving but later said a spokesperson "misspoke" and that the mayor spent the holiday with his parents.

San Jose officials have pushed for a change to Santa Clara County’s sanctuary city policy after learning that a suspect in a stabbing spree was undocumented and had been deported multiple times, according to reports. Mayor Sam Liccardo and Police Chief Eddie Garcia have appealed to Santa Clara County regarding its policy for the second time in little more than a year, the San Jose Spotlight reported.

An already difficult National Football League season just got tougher for the San Francisco 49ers.

San Francisco’s surge in coronavirus cases placed the city back in the state’s most restrictive “purple tier,” signaling new rules starting Monday, Mayor London Breed announced on Twitter Saturday.  A limited stay-at-home order will mean all nonessential indoor businesses will close and members from different households will not be permitted to gather between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.

Natalie Oganesyan editorLongtime technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist and former CEO of Zappos Tony Hsieh died as a result of injuries sustained in a house fire Nov. 18 while visiting family in Connecticut, the New York Times reported.

A former San Francisco rookie police officer who killed an unarmed Black man just weeks into the job has been charged in connection to the death.

Mark David Rich and famous folk are notorious for their itchy real estate feet, buying and selling multimillion-dollar homes with the same ease and alacrity as mere financial mortals might, say, buy a new pair of shoes or change out the baking soda box in the fridge. One exception, at least in San Francisco, is Hollywood veteran Winona Ryder, who’s owned the same home in the city’s affluent Cow Hollow neighborhood for 25 years.

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas are celebrating a huge milestone in their marriage as they've now been husband and wife for 20 years.

pic.twitter.com/8aFyeF4Q0F— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) September 15, 2020At the time of their first date, they lived hundreds of miles away from each other with Doug based in Los Angeles and Kamala in San Francisco.Despite the distance, their first date went well and as Emhoff enthused on YouTube: ‘We’ve been together ever since.’His decisiveness let Kamala know he was serious about her and in her memoir she shared how he arranged their second date the morning after their first.

“I get a lot of private messages from folk saying they look forward to it.”Anyone who wants to join in should search for Rocking Raymondo on Facebook for details.