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  • Eight women arrested while protesting the shooting death of Mario Woods accepted a plea deal for their role in blocking the U.S. Highway 101 off-ramp to SFO this past December. They will do community service and pay financial restitution to CHP. [KRON4] [SFist]
  • A Castro furniture store is packing up and moving to LA, with its owner saying San Francisco's homeless are partially to blame. [Hoodline]
  • Leaked documents show just how "human" Facebook's Trending Topics section really is, despite the company's suggestion that it is mainly driven by algorithms. [Guardian] [Verge] [SFist] [SFist] [Fishbowl]
  • A WWI-era cannon stolen over the weekend turned up in Martinez today. No word on whether or not it had been fired while it was in the hands of thieves. [CBS 5]
  • Google and Yahoo apps have been banned at the White House over security concerns. [Business Times]
  • Infamous child-molester William Ayres, once nationally known as a prominent Bay Area child psychiatrist, died in prison at the age of 84. [CBS 5]
  • A San Francisco man was arrested in the case of yesterday's Redwood Estates murder. The suspect led police on a high-speed chase, wrecking his car in the process, before he was arrested. A passenger was found inside the crashed car, and was pronounced dead at a hospital. [Chronicle] [ABC 7] [Examiner]
  • That ban on vending machines selling sugary and fatty foods on city-owned property won't do much in the near term, as it doesn't impact existing contracts — some as long as five to ten years. [Chronicle] [Examiner]
  • A 66-year-old photographer taking pictures on Treasure Island was assaulted yesterday when a thief rolled up in a Porsche, hopped out, punched the photographer in the face, stole his camera and tripod, and then sped off. No arrests have been made. [CBS 5] [KRON4]