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- SFO's therapy pig, Lilou, has been extra busy helping to calm the rush of stressed out holiday passengers this week. [ABC 7]
- A man in his 60s was killed in his vehicle when it was struck by a train on Caltrain tracks Friday night, in the 11th Caltrain fatality of the year. [CBS 5]
- All about Muni's strange "holiday tree," at SFMTA headquarters, traditionally decorated with broken train parts and emergency signal lights. [Examiner]
- ICYMI, [The Information] named Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Person of the Year for 2017.
- The woman whose body washed up at Baker Beach has been identified as a 40-year-old from Rhode Island. [Chronicle]
- Two Hayward convenience store clerks, who are brothers, took down an armed robber Friday night and it was all caught on video. [KTVU]
- Despite all the rain we've been having, there are still drought pessimists (and we aren't out of the woods yet). [ABC 7]
- Kamala Harris on Friday filed new criminal charges of pimping and money laundering against the chief executive and controlling shareholders of the website Backpage.com. [Reuters]
- Lefty O’Doul’s is holding their 16th annual ”Last Minute Toy Drive" today. [KRON 4]