• Santa Clara County released the results of its 2019 point-in-time homeless census, and found a 31% increase in the homeless population since 2017. The count found that the number of homeless in San Jose rose from 4,350 to 6,172 in two years, an increase of 42%. [CBS SF]
  • Preliminary numbers also show the San Francisco homeless population up 17 percent, but the full 2019 census is not due until next month. [SF Business Times]
  • A judge on Wednesday ruled that none of the members of the San Francisco Public Defender's Office can defend filmmaker Kevin Epps in his upcoming murder trial. The entire staff, the judge said, has a potential conflict of interest. [KQED]
  • The 41-year-old man arrested and charged in the fatal stabbing of a 42-year-old man in the Bayview over the weekend was roommates with the victim. Both were living in a transitional housing facility for parolees and probationers. [Examiner]
  • ABC 7 has analyzed police scanner chatter from the day in April that Stefon Jefferson allegedly shot three men in the Bay Area. Jefferson fled to South Lake Tahoe but was spotted by law enforcement there and eventually arrested following a chase and shootout. [ABC 7]
  • While he's first going to be prosecuted in Nevada for the attempted murder of a police officer and multiple other counts, Jefferson has now been charged in the three local killings. The Alameda County DA's office filed the charges this week. [CBS SF]
  • Kevin Hines, a 38-year-old man who survived a suicide attempt off the Golden Gate Bridge in September 2000, is speaking out about suicide prevention on CNN this weekend. Hines has made regular media appearances describing his instantaneous regret after jumping, including one in 2017 on ABC 7. [CNN]
  • The rain coming on Saturday is set to linger through Sunday morning, i.e. during Bay 2 Breakers. [ABC 7]
  • Architect I.M. Pei has died at the age of 102, and Curbed talks about his one major Bay Area commission, the Buck Institute in Novato. [Curbed]
  • Nearly half of all shipping vessels that come into San Francisco Bay are participating in a program to reduce their speeds to 10 knots to reduce the chance of mortally wounding whales if they are struck. [NBC Bay Area]
  • State lawmakers on Thursday delayed a bill that would make Election Day a statewide holiday. [CBS SF]
  • A medical emergency at Forest Hill station caused some Muni Metro delays starting around noon today. [SFMTA/Twitter]