• Following a threat of a lawsuit, the Haight Street McDonalds gets rent-a-cops. [Hoodline]

  • BART blames a manufacturing defect, hydrogen bubbles in fact, for the piece of rail that broke the other week. [CBS 5]

  • A judge has tossed out Sinbad’s bid to remain open, but the court battle will wage on probably into next month. [Hoodline]

  • That leather-themed public plaza in SoMa is now trying to get grant money. [EBAR]

  • They say you need to make almost $40 an hour to afford the average 2-bedroom apartment in SF. That’s all? [CBS 5]

  • Expert says we shouldn’t freak out over all those dead whales. [ABC 7]

  • The employer of the window washer who fell 11 stories last fall has been fined for safety violations. [Chron]

  • Now there's a group that wants to extend the Mission development moratorium to the Bayview. [Examiner]

  • An inmate in a Sacramento prison might have her gender reassignment dreams shattered if she’s paroled. [Chron]