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- A Lyft driver, called to pick up a fare at 5th and Mission at 3:30 a.m. this morning, was held at gunpoint by three suspects, two women and a man, roughed up, and forced to drive to an ATM and withdraw money to give to them. [SF Chronicle]
- A transgender woman was attacked Saturday near the Westfield Mall in an incident that police are investing as a hate crime. [Bay Area Reporter]
- The SFPD is seeking a couple (of whom they have pictures) in a cross-city graffiti spree that tagged walls in Cow Hollow and the Richmond. [ABC 7]
- Contrary to an earlier report, Nightbird, Kim Alter's new Hayes Valley restaurant, will not be opening tonight, but will hopefully open next week.
- The second anniversary of the Napa earthquake is next week and scientists are still trying to learn as much as they can about a quake that was much more destructive than expected. [ABC 7]
- More than a million more people drove over the Golden Gate Bridge last year, compared with the year before. [CBS 5]
- BART has been unable to fire a station agent facing criminal charges for allegedly beating a homeless man with a stick while on duty in Oakland earlier this year because station surveillance video and police statements were ruled inadmissible in a disciplinary hearing. [CBS 5]
- The case for making New York and San Francisco much, much bigger. [Vox]
- Twitter suspended 235,000 accounts that promoted terrorism over the last six months. [NYT]
- Charges have been dropped against a guy who allegedly threatened Acting Police Chief Toney Chaplin. [Examiner]