• The pilot who had to ditch that plane in Half Moon Bay blames "bad gasoline." The pilot says he already siphoned particulate matter out of the gas tank, but apparently he didn't get all of it, and the plane lost power. [CBS SF]
  • The judge in the Ghost Ship trial has loosened the gag order she imposed on the attorneys in the case. Judge Trina Thompson said attorneys could speak with the press but could not speak publicly about the closed hearing in which three jurors were dismissed on Monday. [Bay City News]
  • Police have arrested a suspect in last Friday's stabbing homicide at Van Ness and Fern. 38-year-old Tony Shervaughn Phillips has been booked on homicide charges, and the victim was ID'd as 42-year-old Curtis Neal of San Francisco. [Examiner]
  • Several big environmental groups filed suit in SF today against the Trump Administration's rollbacks of the Endangered Species Act. The groups include the Sierra Club and the National Parks Conservation Association, and the California attorney general is likely to file a separate suit too. [Chronicle]
  • The Business Times looks inside Oakland's newest residential high-rise. [SF Business Times]
  • The jury in the Ghost Ship trial concluded deliberations today without a verdict, and now goes on a previously scheduled break until September 3. [KRON4]
  • Not quite a heat wave, but another warm spell is coming this weekend, with 80-degree temps around the Bay, and 90s inland. [ABC 7]
  • A British tourist is being blamed for a car crash near Yosemite National Park that killed two people. [SFGate]
  • SF Weekly has some advice for dog owners whose pets swallow weed or edibles. [SF Weekly]
  • Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is going to be on Dancing With the Stars. [KRON4]