• Once again, all the panic about there being a Giants game the same night as a Chase Center concert proved unfounded. There wasn't much terrible traffic Tuesday night as Dave Matthews Band was playing, and a Muni train headed toward the arena was reportedly mostly empty. Did everyone just walk? [Chronicle]
  • Andrea Varriale, the partner of the Italian police officer who was fatally stabbed in Rome in July, allegedly by a Bay Area teenager, is under investigation for not carrying his service weapon. It has come to light that neither Varriale nor the victim, Cerciello Rega, were armed on the day of the conflict. [SFGate]
  • Plumes of steam that looked like smoke coming out of the top of Salesforce Tower this morning caused some alarm... since it is September 11th. It was the result of condensation from the building's startup systems. Nothing to see here, folks. [SFGate]
  • Firefighters across San Francisco are holding ceremonies at their stations this morning to commemorate their colleagues in New York who lost their lives 18 years ago on September 11th. [ABC 7]
  • Randolph Haldeman, the photographer for a local swim team who was accused of child sex assault in Menlo Park, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday. [KRON 4]
  • A UC Berkeley graduate student was injured in a lab explosion on Tuesday. [CBS SF]
  • During Day Four of that runway construction project at SFO on Tuesday, around 300 flights were delayed. [KRON 4]
  • As a result, all hotels around SFO are booked up, and airlines aren't covering hotel stays for delays that are out of their control. [Chronicle]
  • The Bay Area Pet Fair, sponsored by Pet Food Express, happens this weekend at the fairgrounds in Pleasanton. [CBS SF]