• A helicopter crashed at Hayward Executive Airport Monday around 2:30 p.m., killing one person and injuring another. A flight instructor and a student were on board, and the instructor was killed while the student was seriously injured. [ABC 7]
  • Liberals are appearing on Fox News and conservatives are appearing on liberal networks all arguing for the same thing: breaking up Big Tech. It's making for strange bedfellows, says the New York Times. [NYT]
  • A fairly tiny, 3.5M earthquake struck this afternoon north of Morgan Hill. There were no reports of any damages or injuries. [ABC 7]
  • A federal judge San Francisco said he was complying with a Supreme Court precedent by lowering a damages ruling against Monsanto from $80 million to $25 million. The award came in a case brought by a Sonoma man who said that the weed killer Roundup gave him lymphoma. [Examiner]
  • Yosemite National Park will be restoring the names of the Ahwahnee Hotel and Curry Village following the resolution of a trademark dispute. The park's former concessionnaire sued the federal government claiming it had taken ownership of the names, and the case was settled for $12 million. [Chronicle]
  • A brush fire in East San Jose Monday morning grew to 47 acres and destroyed two buildings before being contained. [Bay City News]
  • The huge development at the SF Tennis Club site in SoMa has reduced the amount of office square footage in its plan in order to speed up approvals. [Socketsite]
  • Meadowood's casual St. Helena spinoff The Charter Oak is having a chef shuffle as opening chef Katianna Hong moves on, and chef David Guilloty takes over. [Eater]