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- Somewhat ridiculously, the non-profit developer the Mission Economic Development Agency has been freaking out in opposition to the mom-and-pop Royal Cuckoo market trying to get a license to sell beer and wine at a small bar inside the 19th Street market. [Mission Local]
- LeBron James has given his stamp of approval to the fried chicken sandwiches at The Bird in SF, and he's already been in twice. [Eater]
- Documents released by the California Contractors State Licensing Board, which revoked the license of Segue Construction, the company responsible for building the Berkeley development where that fatal balcony collapse happened two years ago, reveal that unstable and water-absorbent materials were used in the balcony's construction, contrary to materials specified in construction plans. [Berkeleyside]
- A homeless man is suspected of stealing a wedding band and a backpack belonging to Ricky Best, the Army veteran who was stabbed to death aboard a commuter train last week in Portland. [CNN]
- Here are some redesigned renderings of a tall tower proposed at Market and Van Ness. [Socketsite]
- Palo Alto schools have been the sites of a wave of sexual assaults. [Mercury-News]
- A bill that would abolish Daylight Savings Time in California has passed in the Assembly, and is on to the state Senate. [KCRA]
- SF gynecologist: Don't put oak galls on your vagina. [Chronicle]
- Supervisors are scrambling to explain why their districts shouldn’t have homeless Navigation Centers. [Chronicle]
- Uber says that situation with shortchanging drivers was an error, but it was one they knew about for a while and did nothing. [NYT]
- 10 months later, the 36-year-old mother who was paralyzed by that falling tree branch in North Beach remains hospitalized at Laguna Honda, struggling to recover. [SF Chronicle]
- A fire this week at the SoMa Inn Cafe may have been started by a Molotov cocktail. [Hoodline]
