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- The off-duty Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed an intruder last week has been identified as Deputy Vedder Li. [CBS 5]
- A name change for SF’s George Washington High School has again been proposed, and proponents want it to become Maya Angelou High School. [CBS 5]
- UC Berkeley Republican snowflakes now say they’re being targeted for abuse, and someone stole their email list and is using it to send ominous messages to their club's members. [KRON 4]
- Danville police are searching for the vandals who carved a giant swastika into a hillside. [CBS 5]
- Local activists who feel like black bloc anarchists helped destroy the momentum of the Occupy movement five years ago are trying to figure out how to keep them from ruining anti-Trump protests going forward. [SF Chronicle]
- The Weekly's Pete Kane goes after SF Pride for their "cautious optimism" about Trump's LGBT plans and their reposting of a NY Times piece praising the liberal influence of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. [SF Weekly]
- Gwyneth Paltrow was spotted in Marin this past weekend. [Chronicle]
- Netflix is being targeted by a patent troll who claims to have a patent over the basic idea of downloading video from the internet. [Consumerist]
- A flock of 38 wild turkeys is causing some major traffic annoyances as they prance around the streets of Santa Rosa. [Chronicle]
- A KPIX/CBS 5 investigation, which was looking into an abandoned mercury mine near Guerneville, has just learned that the state plans to issue a serious health warning about certain fish in the Russian River that shouldn't be consumed by humans. [CBS 5]
- An investigation at UC Davis Medical Center into the deaths of several cancer patients from rare fungal infections points to medical marijuana as a possible culprit, showing that many samples contained multiple pathogens that could prove harmful if inhaled into the lungs. [CBS 5]
