• A string of shootings in Richmond between Sunday and Monday are believed to be connected, and now the FBI is involved. One man is paralyzed and another is brain dead following a string of five shootings, and there was a sixth, possibly unrelated shooting Tuesday that left a man dead. [CBS SF]
  • Chronicle Editor-in-Chief Audrey Cooper has published an opinion piece about the Bryan Carmody case. She questions why police showed up at Carmody's house with a sledgehammer when the Chronicle obtained the same police report on Adachi's death, possibly from the same SFPD source, and questioning why the Public Defender's Office has sided with police. She also writes, "If you believe only the far right relishes bashing the press to distract from core issues, let me introduce you to San Francisco City Hall." [Chronicle]
  • The SF Police Commission grilled SFPD Chief Bill Scott on the Carmody matter on Wednesday. Scott maintains that the raid on Carmody's home was legal. [NBC Bay Area]
  • CalFire's swift conclusion about the cause of the Camp Fire, just six months after it occurred, stands in sharp contrast to their conclusions about the also deadly Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa. The agency ended up absolving PG&E of responsibility for that fire's cause, 17 months after it happened. [Press-Democrat]
  • A 20-year-old UC Berkeley student has been arrested on three counts of felony sexual assault. Finn Wolff was apparently formerly associated with the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, which says it cut ties with him in December. [Berkeleyside]
  • SF Weekly takes a deep dive into the battle to close down SF's Juvenile Hall. The story follows on a big Chronicle piece in March about how juvenile crime rights have tanked in recent years. [SF Weekly]
  • Gas prices in the Bay Area were higher than anywhere else in the nation last month. [CBS SF]
  • Expect potentially fewer cherries in farmers' markets as Gilroy cherry farmers fear the current rains are going to damage their crops. [ABC 7]