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- Newly released video appears to show an Alameda County deputy stealing a chain from Stanislav Petrov — the 29-year-old beating victim. The deputy had been accused of doing so previously, apparently with the alleged goal of using the necklace as a bribe to buy the silence of a nearby witness. [SFist] [SFist] [KRON4] [CBS 5]
- The Department of Justice has filed a permanent injunction against a San Francisco noodle maker as a result of unsanitary conditions. [DoJ] [Inside Scoop] [CBS 5]
- Hey, guess what? According to a study, Millennials want new housing built in their neighborhoods. [SF Business Times] [Chronicle]
- Kitchit, the on-demand private chef service, has shut down. [Tech Crunch] [SFist]
- It seems BART's "Fleet of the Future" problems — running its new train car into a sand berm — were caused by a cabinet door repeatedly slamming into a wire. [SFist] [SFist] [KQED] [KRON4] [BART]
- Efforts to bring high-speed rail to SF are even more underfunded than previously thought. The new shortfall? $1.5 billion. [SF Business Times] [Examiner]
- BART police want license plate readers at every single station in order to track who comes and goes. They have two up and running already. [Mercury News] [ABC 7]
- A well-liked Gilroy High School teacher is accused of catfishing minors. [ABC 7] [CBS 5]
- Want to pay $900 a month to live in a retrofitted Dodge Caravan? Some guy has a business renting them out. [Chronicle]
- A San Francisco political consultant was killed in a Devil's Slide crash. [Chronicle] [Examiner]
- The city of Santa Clara agreed to pay a Pakistani American homeland security agent and his parents $499,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed police illegally searched and trashed their home and made an unlawful arrest. [Chronicle]
- The saga, and trial, for public access to Martins Beach continues. [SFist] [Chronicle] [CBS 5]
- Some seemingly professional squatters have been throwing raves in SoMa. [SF Weekly]
- Yet another tech CEO, this time in San Jose, finds time to rip on the less fortunate. The time around, sidewalk fruit vendors were on the receiving end — with the CEO writing online that he would do "whatever it took to make them leave" even "[if] that meant destroying some of their produce." [Examiner]
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's private security costs $5 million per year. [Cnet]