• A set of logs laid along the parking lane of a West Oakland street have successfully deterred homeless RVs from parking there for about a year. The city has inquired about who put them there, but they've let them stay even though they're technically obstructing a right of way. [East Bay Times]
  • The Ng family, the landlords in the Ghost Ship fire case, can no longer be criminally charged for involuntary manslaughter. The three-year statute of limitations expired at the end of the day Monday. [KTVU]
  • Surveillance video shows the sequence of events that led to an off-duty CHP officer being choked unconscious at the Bay Street shopping center in Emeryville on Friday. The situation begins a woman in a white coat approaching a group of teens to ask about her cell phone, which was stolen earlier in the evening. [Chronicle]
  • Supervisor Matt Haney is expected to announce a new escalation in the war on poop today. New funding is allowing Tenderloin streets to be pressure-washed once a week instead of once a month. [KRON4]
  • A broken water main was making a water feature out of the intersection of Noriega and 18th Avenue this morning. This follows several broken water mains last week in Potrero Hill. [NBC Bay Area]
  • We're in a break between rain storms, and a Healdsburg hardware store shows off its empty shelves of tarps of sandbags. [ABC 7]
  • Marin County is looking to expand its emergency shelter capacity for extreme weather events. [KRON4]
  • The lawsuits are mounting over natural gas bans in Bay Area cities. [Chronicle]
  • A San Jose woman was frantically searching for her missing, rare blue macaw, and he has since been found. [ABC 7]
  • The Warriors keep losing, and they lost again to the Atlanta Hawks. [Chronicle]