-- In the 3600 block of Waterbury Court way down in San Jose last night, a double shooting left one man critically injured and another man dead. According to CBS 5, "no arrests have been made and no description of the suspect or suspects was immediately available."

-- 17-year-old Rosie Blanckenburg left home on her bicycle for Berkeley High at 8 a.m. yesterday morning, and never showed up for class. According to SFGate, "a check of recent Internet blog entries by Blanckenburg indicated that she was 'possibly depressed.'" Kensington Police Chief Greg Harman says that "there's no reason to believe there was foul play." As of now, anyway.

-- Nina Reiser's children call her "a liar" and "a thief that stole their dad's money." Ouch. Good luck with that, Nina.

-- Reasons why the young are scary, part 43264: After a young man savagely beat a 70-year-old Alameda man with a wooden chair leg, the rapscallion then climbed onto the victim's bed and went to sleep because he was exhausted. As of this morning, authorities aren't sure why the assailant, James Wallace Hayworth, 19, attacked the elderly man. The assailant is currently in police custody.

-- And finally, a future blue square recipient, former Alameda high school teacher and Sea Scout leader Eugene Austin Evans, was arrested this week for having sexual relations with "four boys, ages 13 to 17, aboard the S.S.S. Farallon." Allegedly. What's more, this is the same guy who went all the way to the "U.S. Supreme Court to stand up for the Boy Scouts of America's policy to exclude gays and atheists." Yep.