• In the unfolding Oakland scandal involving a waste management company, possibly Mayor Sheng Thao, and various other figures, the Chronicle has vague details about a May 3 incident between two of the parties. This involved two-time City Council candidate Mario Juarez and Andy Duong, whose family owns Oakland main waste management provider, and the incident either included threats only, or actual violence. [Chronicle]
  • An Oakland mother who lost a stepdaughter in a party bus shooting three years ago is now grieving the loss of her 25-year-old son. Aisha Meredith tells KTVU that the "pain is unbearable" after her son, Devonya Thurston, was shot on July 1 at Go Go Amigo Market at 105th Avenue and E Street in East Oakland. [KTVU]
  • Those 13 teenage hikers in the Tahoe area who became stranded on a trail due to the Royal Fire have been reunited with their families. [NBC Bay Area]
  • A 28-year-old Concord man has been busted in a strange scheme in which he was posting fake ads selling airplanes being kept at Buchanan Field Airport, in an alleged attempt to collect payments from willing buyers and then disappear. [East Bay Times]
  • A 69-year-old woman who lost her Napa home in the 2017 Atlas Fire shows off her beautiful new, fire-resistant home, paid for almost entirely through insurance to the tune of $6.4 million, to the New York Times.
  • The SF Chronicle Editorial Board is calling out the Board of Supervisors for "handing out new pension benefits like Tic Tacs" amid the city's $790 million budget deficit. [Chronicle]
  • The New York Times Editorial Board has put out another fairly scathing editorial  urging Democrats to "speak plainly" and "tell him that he is embarrassing himself and endangering his legacy."