- A body found near China Camp Park in San Rafael is being treated as a suspicious death. The Marin County Sheriff's Office said the body was found on the side of N. San Pedro Road. [NBC Bay Area]
- Co-CEO of Oracle, Mark Hurd, has died at age 62. Hurd stepped away from his role at the Redwood City-based company last month due to health issues. [Associated Press]
- Both the state's and San Francisco's unemployment rate just hit a new record low. California gained 21,300 jobs in September, extending a record job expansion of 115 months that surpasses a similarly long expansion in the 1960s. [Chronicle]
- Operations at the NuStar refinery in Crockett have been suspended indefinitely as the company continues investigating the cause of Tuesday's explosion and fire. [ABC 7]
- After losing its permit to operate in SF, e-scooter company Skip announces layoffs. [Examiner]
- Some controversy has been stirred around Never Surrender Fest, a metal fest happening in Oakland this weekend, as anti-fascist activists say that some of the acts espouse neo-Nazi symbology. [KQED]
- Three Santa Clara schools were on lockdown Friday after a bomb scare in Bowers Park. [Bay City News]
- A high-surf advisory was in effect for the entire Bay Area coastline today. [ABC 7]
- A local bartender discusses how the job has become more complicated in the age of Trump chaos and #MeToo. [Chronicle]
- The clothing store X-Generation is shutting its Upper Haight outpost by year-end in order to focus on its Mission location. [Hoodline]
- Hillary Clinton was giving no fucks in a podcast interview this week, claiming both that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is being groomed as a Russian asset to run as a third-party candidate in 2020, and that Jill Stein was "totally" a Russian asset playing a similar role. [CNN]
- Gabbard has responded, via tweet, calling Clinton, "the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long."
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