- The Marin Humane Society is grappling with the unexpected and anonymous nocturnal delivery of 34 cats and kittens in cardboard boxes on its doorstep. Three suspects who abandoned the animals were caught on surveillance video. [Bay City News] [CBS 5]
- East Bay brewer makes Jurassic beer using 45-million-year-old yeast. [SF Business Times]
- Postmates is raising at least $100 million to fuel its on-demand ambitions. [TechCrunch]
- Supervisor Aaron Peskin has introduced legislation that would provide $100,000 in city funding to those impacted by the Aug. 24 earthquake that killed hundreds in the Italian town of Amatrice. [SF Examiner]
- A man was shot to death near a busy San Mateo shopping center Tuesday night, and two suspects were later detained after a freeway chase that ended on San Francisco city streets. [SF Chronicle]
- That sea turtle mural in the Mission by the artist named fnnch was defaced for at least the third time this time this week, likely by the same tagger. [Capp Street Crap]
- The [Huffington Post] asks, "Are the Oakland Raiders Super Bowl Contenders?"