-- 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......

Hey kid. An SFist editor would like to have some words with you. A 16-year-old from Belmont was arrested for planting those bombs around SF General yesterday. He was caught with another explosive device in his house, and they think he might have planted some bombs near SF General last month too. And yeah, you may have heard -- it turns out they were actual bombs. A student at Berkeley High and her date were......

So Newsweek's come out with its rankings of "the top public high schools in the country," and the Bay Area has 9 10 schools in the top 300: Magnet school Lowell High in SF topped the list at 57, and Monta Vista in Cupertino came in second (85). The rest of your schools: Mission San Jose in Fremont (140), Burlingame High School (196), Mountain View High School (213), Andrew P. Hill in San Jose......

Do people not give swirlies anymore? Four San Ramon teenagers were kicked off the JV football team after they were caught giving a wedgie to another teammate and dragging him around on the floor with a rope tied around his ankle while someone else kicked him in the groin. The second-to-last paragraph states in its entirety, "All those involved in the 30-second attack were sophomores," which kind of tells you all you need to know.......

Well, at least it wasn't in the Transbay Tube -- a woman went into labor on the steps of the Berkeley BART stop today. With triplets. Watch where you're walking this afternoon! People at first ignored the woman's cries for help (when asked about this, a BART spokesperson hypothesized that it might have been because she "looked homeless"), but finally, a Berkeley High School teacher on break ran up and caught the first of the woman's three premature babies in his t-shirt. The teacher called an ambulance, who took the baby to Oakland's Children's Hospital, and then transferred the mother to Alta Bates, where she had the other two triplets. All three babies are all doing well. BART, ever budget-conscious, noted that "We do not have any plans to give them lifetime passes at this point." Meanwhile, folks, be a pal and give up your BART seat to that nice pregnant woman struggling to stay upright as the train speeds to MacArthur. Do you want to give up your t-shirt to save her child? ...

In the "How would Mario Savio feel?" department, Dale Gieringer of California NORML posted the following on Indybay.org: Berkeley may have a reputation for cannabis tolerance, but that hasn't penetrated to the city's public education establishment. A few days ago, Cal NORML received a call from a Berkeley High School student asking for information. I told him the answers to his questions were all on our website. "I can't get to your website," he......

...until we become the next Mrs. Gavin Newsom, that is! Last week's winner goes first, and that's the East Bay Express. A cartoon strip illustrating the cartoonist's dreams (flying on a magic carpet with stewardesses). A gadfly in Emeryville. Are teachers prepared to teach Ethnic Studies at Berkeley High? Cover story: the man who may have been framed as the East Bay 580 sniper. Hey -- just 'cause a guy's got a meth lab doesn't mean he also shoots at passing cars! The restaurant reviewer writes up brief reviews of crappy restaurants he went to (complaints: too-sweet vinaigrette, too many kabobs). And a Michael Jackson v. Prince mashup dance party: ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma ma coo sa. And here we are with the Bay Guardian. Look, we're not going to pretty it up for you this week: Great Scott, this is a boring issue. Land use issues over a building that the Chronicle was in – in 1924. Raising PG&E franchise fees. Cover article: Man unjustly fired by the juvie courts for complaining about overtime. Schools need cash. Why is hip-hop not angrier about politics? A genderqueer choreographer. Latino queercore punk. We cannot move this issue into the recycle bin fast enough. The SF Weekly and the pick of the week after the jump. ...