• Two Maltipoo (Maltese-poodle) puppies were stolen from a woman at a Potrero Hill shopping center on Wednesday. The woman had arranged to meet a potential buyer for the puppies, and she says a man showed up and stole them. [NBC Bay Area]
  • The SFTMA is holding an open house today to discuss pedestrian safety on Taylor Street following Sunday's deadly crash. The event is part of the agency's ongoing series of open houses connected to the Better Market Street project. [ABC 7]
  • The BART board is voting on the appointment of a new general manager this morning. The decision has come down to a single candidate, current interim general manager Bob Powers. [Examiner]
  • A witness in a murder trial in Contra Costa County gave some dramatic, sometimes contradictory testimony Wednesday. The unidentified woman is the ex-girlfriend of William Melvin Edwards Jr., and she admitted to hearing him confess to shooting someone but kept insisting, also, that he "didn't do it." [East Bay Times]
  • An 80-acre fire has been burning in the foothills near San Jose since Wednesday afternoon. [Mercury-News]
  • Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors reached a compromise on measure going on the November ballot to rezone public land for teacher housing. [Examiner]
  • The Chronicle today brings us a brief history of the Sony Metreon, and how within three years of its 1999 opening it was already being called "troubled." [Chronicle]
  • A teenage girl is in critical condition and three other people were hospitalized after a car crash in the Bayview last night. [Examiner]