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- CHP in Oakland busted a pack of ATV and dirt bike riders who had been participating in a sideshow and aggressively crossing the Bay Bridge on Sunday evening, impounding several vehicles and making arrests. CHP is now investigating whether there is any possible connection to the sideshow riders who assaulted Alex Quintana on the 101 in SF two weeks ago. [Chronicle] [NBC Bay Area] [ABC 7]
- The victim of a mugging on Saturday near 5th and Mission took matters into his own hands by hailing a cab and tailing the perpetrator until police arrived to apprehend him. [Chronicle]
- Former SF deputy city attorney Joanne Hoeper has been awarded $2 million in damages by a jury after her 2014 firing in a whistleblower claim involving shady city sewer contracts. [Chronicle]
- The Guardian, the BBC, and Britain's Channel 4 have all pulled advertising from Google and YouTube after finding their ads being served on videos from the likes Michael Savage and David Duke. Google responds admitting “we don’t always get it right.” [AdWeek]
- San Francisco fashion boutique Modern Appealing Clothing is suing Ivanka Trump's fashion line over unfair competition in the women's clothing business. [Chronicle]
- On the heels of the 2015-16 El Niño, members of the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory recently observed 19 pelagic red crabs in Bodega Bay, the first sighting of live ones this far north of their usual home on the Mexican coast since 1985. [Chronicle]
- Three San Jose police officers are on paid leave following an incident in which they were led on a four-mile chase by an aggressive naked man in a vehicle, and ultimately shot at him a reported 12 times, critically injuring him. [ABC 7]
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