- The runway under construction for two weeks at SFO reopened Thursday night at 8:15 p.m. to normal traffic. The project was completed more than a week early, much to every traveler's relief. [Chronicle]
- Shots were fired Thursday night near the library at the San Jose State University campus. There was evidence of multiple rounds, but no suspects have been identified and no one was injured — and this followed the arrest of a heavily armed student on the campus who had allegedly made threats on social media. [Chronicle]
- Nurses are on strike at three East Bay hospitals today, in Alameda, San Leandro, and San Ramon. The San Ramon strike is part of a larger statewide demonstration against Tenet Hospitals, and these precede a looming strike by Kaiser nurses. [ABC 7]
- BART service was interrupted Thursday afternoon between North Berkeley and Richmond because of a fire on the train tracks. [CBS SF]
- The family of a 21-year-old woman who was killed in 1996 in a pizza parlor where she worked in Crockett is renewing a push to find her killer. [NBC Bay Area]
- A 29-year-old Fremont man was arrested on suspicion of a hate crime after allegedly assaulting two women, in one case admitting that the woman's ethnicity was the reason he hit her. [CBS SF]
- New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race. [NBC Bay Area]
- The infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania is set to be taken offline today, though safely dismantling the thing will potentially take decades. [Associated Press]