- A wild-life animal care agency rehabilitated and will return a bobcat back to its natural habitat Thursday evening in Marin County. [KRON 4]
- [Wired] has "Your 5 Totally Achievable Security Resolutions for the New Year."
- Concord Police have arrested a suspect in the sexual assault of an 80-year-old woman. [KRON 4]
- Beth Spotswood tries laughter yoga. [SF Chronicle]
- San Francisco-based AppDynamics, which makes software that companies use to measure the performance of their apps, is going public. [SF Business Times]
- Two shot in San Jose home invasion. [ABC 7]
- A traffic collision turned into a robbery Tuesday night after a motorcycle-riding man stole a cellphone from another motorist. [Bay City News]
- The trial of an East Bay man accused of stalking and threatening to kill a former mentor is on hold as doctors examine whether he’s mentally competent. [Bay Area Reporter]
- The owners of a statewide chain of sleep clinics based in the South Bay have agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle the government’s claim that they defrauded the Medicare program. [SF Chronicle]
- An East Bay family is grieving after another family member is taken from them. [CBS 5]
- SF residents are urged to recycle their Christmas trees. [Bay City News]
- Local notables (and, improbably, I) talk about the SF building projects that thrill us the most. [Curbed SF]
- Man and bouncer face off in Union Square. [SF Examiner]
- Snap is trying to convince investors that they're the next Facebook, not the next Twitter. [Wall Street Journal]