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- Here's your New Year's Day brunch plan. [SFist]
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Person wandering around in the Transbay Tube delays Thursday evening BART commute. [KRON 4]
- Over half of Forbes' 40 richest entrepreneurs under 40 are in the Bay Area. [SF Chronicle]
- The Touch is closing. [Capp Street Crap]
- Real estate bidding ways plummet in SF. [Curbed SF]
- North Pole's Santa Claus back on Facebook after proving it's his real identity. [Newsminer.com]
- The East Bay mother of a soldier killed in combat in Afghanistan is mourning again after a cherished ring was stolen from his mausoleum in Contra Costa County. [ABC 7]
- An 18-year-old man suffered a single gunshot wound to the head and died in what police described as an accidental shooting at an East Bay homeless shelter. [SF Chronicle]
- Harbor seals are still sunning themselves in Alameda despite a nearby construction project. [CBS 5]
- Stencil artist and silkscreen printmaker Michael Roman has died. [Mission Local]
- A new law that makes San Francisco the first city in the U.S. to allow new parents to take time off from work without taking a pay cut goes into effect Sunday. [SF Examiner]
