Have you seen this couple? [SFGate] Vulgar, yes, but it will all be half-price come tomorrow. [Nature abhors a vacuum] Bonds failed a steroids test in 2001? You don't say. [ABC7] Obama Haight/hate graffiti. [Curbed] National Boring Sex Week comes to Cal. [Daily Clog] J-school student sentenced to five days in the clink for the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam. [EBX] Bad cop. [Valleywag] Apply for the San Francisco County Transportation Authority’s Citizens......

(Barry Bonds is on SFGate's Crime page. Ha!) -- A 19-year-old woman was shot -- "in the back today...at 5:39 p.m." Huh?-- during an attempted street robbery in SF's Visitacion Valley. Attacked at Velasco Avenue and Santos Street, she is currently at SFGH and listed in stable condition. And the two suspects? Are still at large. -- UC Berkeley journalism student Kevin Jones, 27, "pleaded no contest today to a misdemeanor charge of vehicular......

Well, that was a grim Daily Californian homepage yesterday. The top six stories: pedestrian hit by car on Telegraph; Berkeley summer camp evacuated due to Tahoe fire, body found near the Berkeley Marina, beloved local activist hit by train, Cal student to be tried for killing David Halberstam, and memorials for the local murder-suicide family. On the bright side, the other article on the home page is that Cal basketball star DeVon Hardin has decided......

This story about the Berkeley family killed in Tilden Park by the husband over business problems is so sad. Friends of the family describe the husband, Kevin Morrissey, as "brittle," "desperate," and as having a "very controlling side," though by all accounts deeply in love with his wife. The wife, Mamiko Kawai, is described as a wonderful doctor and the two girls as adorable. The CIA will neither confirm nor deny the husband's claims that......

--The dude who got shot yesterday isn't cooperating with the cops. --David Halberstam's attorney blames the J-School driver for Halberstam's fatal car accident. --A second gas leak in SF this afternoon? This one in Nob Hill. --There was a fire at 1 a.m. this morning on Natoma (between Mission and S. Van Ness) and 14th Street. --A Santa Cruz councilmember has issued an apology for making sexual comments to a female police officer on a......

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. ...

Wow-- this is pretty shocking: Pulitzer Prize winning author David Halberstam was killed today in a three-car accident in Menlo Park. The accident occurred at westbound Bayfront Expressway and Willow Road near the Dumbarton Bridge and according to authorities, he was one of the passengers. ...