- The victims in Thursday morning's wrong-way crash on 101 in San Francisco have been identified. The wrong-way driver, who's been described as "impaired," was ID'd as 34-year-old Emilie Ross from Hillsborough. The two victims in the cab coming from SFO were Chicago couple Jud Bergman, 62, and Mary Miller-Bergman, 57, while the driver of the cab was 42-year-old Berkant Ahmed of San Carlos. [ABC 7]
- At one of the fundraisers he attended in the Bay Area on Thursday, former Vice President Joe Biden made a quip about Trump's attacks on him and his son. Per an attendee, "He said 'The president said my son made a billion dollars in China, gosh I wonder where it is...'” [KRON 4]
- A Stanford swimmer claims he was not invited back to join the swim team for a post-graduate year because he is gay. The university says he was not invited back for "reasons unrelated to his sexuality." [CBS SF]
- The full story of how Instagram-famous Otis the pug got abducted and found last month is a kooky one. It involves a possibly mentally ill building super and a homeless man who refused a $15,000 reward for finding the pooch. [Mission Local]
- A new Red Flag Warning has been issued for hills in the North Bay for Saturday night. Temperatures are expected to be in the 80s, with 35 m.p.h winds expected overnight into Sunday. [KRON 4]
- A Bay Area dad implicated in the college admissions scandal, Agustin Huneeus, is set to be sentenced in Boston today. [Associated Press]
- The Mendocino Sheriff's Office is investigating the illegal dumping of hundreds of old tires along the Russian River watershed. [ABC 7]
- Police are looking for two suspects who stole four iPhones from a Daly City AT&T store using wire cutters. [KRON 4]