- 89-year-old great-grandmother Yik Oi Huang was beaten to death in a Visitacion Valley park in 2019, and tomorrow, that park will be officially renamed in her honor. Visitacion Valley Playground will be renamed Yik Oi Huang Peace and Friendship Park in a dedication ceremony Saturday at 11 am with plenty of performers at the park’s 251 Leland Avenue location. [Associated Press]
- That potential looming Muni strike is fortunately not going to happen, as Transport Workers Union Local 250A agreed to a new contract Thursday. Operators will get a 13% raise between now and 2027, plus bonus pay for working “high volume service days.” [Examiner]
- Former Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf is facing an ethics investigation for allegedly coordinating an illegal $100,000 contribution from Lyft to a PAC opposing councilmember Rebecca Kaplan in the 2020 elections. Oh, and Libby Schaaf is currently running for state Treasurer, so certainly an illegal campaign finance scandal could complicate all of that. [Oaklandside]
- Golden State Warriors fan favorite Klay Thompson just unfollowed the Warriors on Instagram, and people are losing their damn minds over it. I kind of hate myself for even acknowledging one of these stupid “somebody unfollowed somebody on Insta” stories as if it were real news, but Thompson is technically now a free agent, and can move to another team effective June 30, so there may be something to this. [SFGate]
- You been following that crazy homophobic Republican realtor fraud scandal in Sonoma County involving accused embezzler Kenneth Mattson? Turns out Weebly co-founder Chris Fanini is buying up a bunch of Mattson’s distressed properties, and at a lovely discount at that. [Chronicle]
- Three-time drunk driver (or at least, they caught him three times) Mauricio Ramirez Aguilar has been sentenced to life in prison for a 2020 fatal Yountville crash that killed 87-year-old veteran Constantine Tsavalas. [KRON4]