• There were major tensions Thursday as once again Caltrans began clearing part of the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland. Some residents tried to protest the clearing with a blockade of mattresses, while others scrambled to gather their belongings to clear off the Caltrans-owned portion of the property. [Chronicle]
  • The Oakland A's plan for a new $12 billion waterfront ballpark at the Howard Terminal site near Jack London Square has gotten another leg up, as a judge has rejected challenges to its environmental review. Opponents have been arguing that the A's should be rebuilding on the existing Coliseum site, among other things. [Chronicle]
  • A man was arrested Thursday for allegedly beheading a woman in the middle of the street in San Carlos, and the woman apparently had a restraining order against him. The killing reportedly took place in front of the woman's children, and the weapon was reportedly a sword. [KRON4 / Chronicle]
  • Two women, on from Fairfield and the other from Vallejo, were arrested in San Francisco last week in connection with nine armed robberies. [KRON4]
  • The heat wave has brought big crowds to SF's network of public swimming pools. [KPIX]
  • Birdsong's Instagram-famous fried chicken sandwich with the whole foot and claw sticking out, dubbed Claude the Claw and created during for pandemic takeout, is now the basis of a restaurant near Oracle Park called Birdbox. [Eater]
  • Excelsior dive bar The Broken Record is closing after a 15-year run. [Hoodline]