Jennifer Wadsworth

Baton Rouge, San Francisco

Senior Editor at The San Francisco Standard

senior editor @sfstandard. previously @theadvocatebr @metronewspaper @sanjoseinside. bylines @washingtonpost @thedailybeast @sfgate etc.

Articles

SF sheriff’s second-in-command arrested after hit-and-run

6 days ago | sfstandard.com | Jennifer Wadsworth |Jonah Owen Lamb

One of the San Francisco’s highest-ranking law enforcement officials was arrested Saturday on suspicion of a hit-and-run. Sheriff Chief of Staff Richard Jue was booked early Sunday on a charge of hit-and-run with property damage. The Sheriff’s Department confirmed that the 65-year-old law enforcement veteran is under criminal and administrative investigation. Jue spent three decades at the San Francisco Police Department before becoming Sheriff Paul Miyamoto’s second in command in 2020.
Thousands turn out for San Francisco's 'No Kings' protest

1 week ago | sfstandard.com | Ezra Wallach |Jennifer Wadsworth

Massive crowds descended on the streets of San Francisco Saturday as part of the nationwide “No Kings” protest against Donald Trump, which coincided with the president’s military parade in Washington, D.C. About 3,000 people had gathered at the protest centered on Dolores Park by midday Saturday. Several people carried upside-down American flags. A helicopter flew overhead.
Rookie cop arrested, 5 injured in DUI rollover crash

1 month ago | sfstandard.com | Jennifer Wadsworth |Jonah Owen Lamb |Ezra Wallach

A rookie cop driving under the influence a day after graduating from the San Francisco police academy slammed into another car early Saturday in the Outer Sunset, The Standard has learned. The high-speed crash happened around 2 a.m. at Sunset Boulevard and Rivera Street and left five people injured — two of them critically, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. Jail records show the driver, Ryan Kwong, was booked early Saturday on suspicion of five felony DUI-with-injury counts.
Selling desperation: These home insurers deny claims at shocking rates

1 month ago | sfstandard.com | Jennifer Wadsworth

As insurers flee the state, once-obscure, unregulated carriers have stepped up to take their place. And they're denying an extraordinary number of claims. Michelle Fuller banked everything on the three-bedroom Victorian on 15th Street in the Castro, which she bought in 2005 for $985,000. After her only child left for college, Fuller downsized to a small apartment but didn’t sell the home. She hired a property manager and rented it out.
Revealed: Landlord group hired paid protesters to oppose rent control

2 months ago | sfstandard.com | Jennifer Wadsworth

By Jennifer WadsworthPublished Apr. 16, 2025 • 6:00amJackson Brody was combing Craigslist for work when he stumbled across an ad for a paid gig in the East Bay. Pocket $250 for one evening close to home? Seemed almost too good to be true. Hours after replying to the ad, the 27-year-old got a late-night callback.
‘Our last chance’: SF fertility clinic lost embryos, lawsuits say

2 months ago | sfstandard.com | Jennifer Wadsworth

The allegations come amid a national wave of litigation against clinics and companies involved in IVF as industry growth outpaces regulation. The allegations about Chang’s unsettling appointment on May 22, 2024 — detailed in one of two new lawsuits against Spring Fertility’s Bay Area clinics — come amid a national wave of litigation targeting clinics and companies involved in the fertility process as the industry’s growth outpaces regulation.
‘Gross retro transphobia’: Another SF spa is accused of discrimination

Mar 10, 2025 | sfstandard.com | Jennifer Wadsworth

Calder Storm was lounging in a hot tub with a friend at Imperial Day Spa when two attendants approached him with a question: “Are you transgender?” The employees told him they received a complaint and said Storm, who is transmasculine and has a state ID to back it up, would have to leave. The exchange that followed was caught on a video that’s racking up thousands of views on YouTube.
52 hours in the ER: Cancer patient's wait highlights staffing shortfall at UCSF

Mar 10, 2025 | sfstandard.com | Jennifer Wadsworth

It began with a slight change of gait. “I put my foot on the floor, and it felt weird — like my brain wasn’t telling my foot what was happening,” Marisa recounted. As a 63-year-old cancer survivor, she knew enough to err on the safe side. So, on her nurse’s advice to go to the hospital where she’d been treated by oncologists, she drove from her home in El Cerrito over the Bay Bridge and through San Francisco to the emergency department at UCSF Parnassus in the Inner Sunset.
'Devastating': Trump research funding cuts could cost the Bay Area billions

Feb 14, 2025 | sfstandard.com | Jennifer Wadsworth |Noah Baustin

New rules would strip upward of $138 million from UCSF in one year, according to The Standard’s analysis of federal data. UCSF neurology professor Adam Boxer anxiously faced the prospect of having to call off a landmark clinical trial before it started — one that could lead to the first effective drugs for a deadly brain disease. A Feb.
Bay Area chiropractor accused of sexually abusing students

Feb 9, 2025 | sfstandard.com | Jennifer Wadsworth

After a teacher groomed and abused her during high school, a young woman turned to chiropractic care to reconnect with her body. It was so effective that she enrolled at Life Chiropractic College West in hopes of helping other survivors heal. Instead, she says, she found herself reliving the trauma when a professor molested her at his private practice. When she tried to report the assault, the school ignored her, she says.