• Following on two cable car operators getting hit by passing vehicles, the SFMTA is launching a campaign and crackdown on those who try to pass cable cars, which is not legal. [KQED, Chron]
  • There was an officer-involved shooting this afternoon of a robbery suspect at 27th and MLK in Oakland. [KRON4, Twitter]
  • Here's a conceptual rendering for 30 Van Ness (not an actual rendering as it is still out for bid). [Socketsite]
  • Serial burglar sexually assaults teen in Alameda. [ABC 7]
  • Alameda County sheriff's deputies met with an explosion at an Oakland apartment where they were trying to serve an eviction notice, and inside they found the badly burned body of the person they were trying to serve the notice to. [AP]
  • A cat named Ruthie Rosemary survived a big wildfire in Shasta Trinity National Forest. [SFGate]
  • Remember this building on 26th Street where tenants were getting evicted who claimed the property manager was stealing their rent? Well he's in court this week, and a judge will decide the case in two weeks. [Mission Local]
  • Two Northern California DMV staffers are accused of fraud in a scheme in which they took bribes from commercial truck drivers in order to give them licenses they couldn't get otherwise. [HuffPo]
  • San Jose cops are maybe getting a crime-fighting drone. [KSBY]