• A man was critically injured Tuesday morning trying to chase down a thief who stole his laptop from a Starbucks in Oakland's Montclair neighborhood. The man ran after the thief and then was dragged by the getaway car when he grabbed onto a door handle. [ABC7]
  • Two men sustained life-threatening injuries Monday night in separate attacks in Potrero Hill and near the Ferry Building. A 53-year-old man was stabbed in an apparently unprovoked attack near Mariposa Street and Terry A. Francois Boulevard, and then a 35-year-old man was found unconscious after an apparent robbery on Steuart Street. [Chronicle]
  • Guests at Sacramento's DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel are up in arms about not being told that they were sharing the hotel on New Year's Eve with California's biggest swingers' convention. At least one family man is complaining to the local media about not being able to get a refund. [ABC7]
  • A 33-year-old suspect was taken into custody in Fremont Tuesday after leading police on two different pursuits in the East Bay over two days. [Bay City News]
  • The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today refused an appeal in a "deceptive advertising" case brought by a Santa Rosa woman who drank Diet Dr. Pepper for 13 years and didn't lose any weight. [Associated Press]
  • San Francisco firefighters successfully rescued a dog Tuesday afternoon that became stuck on a cliff near the hang-gliding launch at Fort Funston. [CBS SF]
  • An SFO-bound United flight from London today had to make a medical-emergency landing in Canada. [KRON4]