• Over 400 BART passengers had to be evacuated from a disabled train this morning between Lake Merritt and 12th Street Stations in Oakland. The situation caused systemwide delays around 10 a.m., and the whole evacuation took an hour. [ABC 7]
  • 26-year-old Malik Dosouqi, the suspect in two stabbings last week on consecutive nights on the same rural stretch of road in San Mateo County, made a brief court appearances today. Dosouqi is due back for his actual arraignment in two weeks, and investigators say they are still only speculating about his motive. [CBS SF]
  • A federal judge has dismissed a suit brought by cab drivers who claimed that age discrimination was used in banning their cabs from SFO. The judge said the new policy was "promulgated on the basis of taxicab efficiency and propping up those medallion holders most heavily hurt by the industry-wide crisis." [Examiner]
  • A fire in Livermore caused major commute delays on I-580. [Bay City News]
  • More information has emerged in the standoff in San Jose that ended with five people dead. [ABC 7]
  • A Pleasant Hill man is pissed that PG&E came and cut down two 70-year-old oak trees on his property, after he thought they were simply trimming them. [ABC 7]
  • Gas prices in San Francisco have come down, on average, 27 cents since this time last month. [CBS SF]
  • A goat had to be rescued out of a drainage pipe in the East Bay hills over the weekend. [Mercury News]