- A "a major medical emergency involving a person on the track" shut down the Bay Fair BART station in San Leandro this afternoon. [CBS 5]
- State senator and former supervisor Scott Wiener is urging the SF Board of Supervisors not to pass a 45-day moratorium on new pot dispensaries saying it "send[s] a terrible message statewide." [Chronicle]
- Ahead of Saturday's right-wing rally, businesses near Crissy Field are forced to close. [ABC 7]
- Also, Lyft has issued a driver safety advisory over the rally. [NBC Bay Area]
- Excavations for a housing development in Fremont unearthed the remains of 32 Ohlone Indians, and experts suspect there are many, many more in the ground there. [ABC 7]
- Jane Kim on Wednesday launched a campaign called the Jobs of the Future Fund to study a statewide "payroll" tax on “job-stealing machines,” i.e. robots. [Wired]
- Uber reports big rise in bookings in second quarter, losses fall to $645 million. [CNet]
- Report says San Francisco is less livable now than 10 years ago. [Curbed]
- UC Berkeley professor resigns as prominent science advisor for US State Department with letter whose first paragraph starters spell out IMPEACH. [Daily Cal]
- Despite a court order for billionaire Vinod Khosla to open Martins Beach, the no trespassing signs are still there. [Mercury News]
- A team of 80 goats is working to unearth a long-forgotten and grown-over Fort Mason spot called Black Point. [ABC 7]
- The gay, black dean of San Francisco State University’s historic College of Ethnic Studies sued the university Wednesday claiming discrimination and harassment.
- A 22-year-old Oakland has pleaded not guilty to trying to provide material support to ISIS. [CBS 5]
- What’s Up With the Anti-Trump Street Art All Over the Mission? [SF Weekly]
- Google search results now offer a clinically validated screening quiz when users search for "depression." [Endgadget]
- A man who is believed dead after disappearing in the Yuba River earlier this week has been identified as 37-year-old Ricardo Alvarez of San Francisco. [Union]
- Two teen sisters from the Tahoe area thought to be missing after they went to watch the eclipse in Oregon and failed to call their parents for several days have been found safe. [CBS 5]
