• Billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, has just set a real estate record in San Francisco, purchasing a mansion on Billionaire's Row in Pac Heights for $70 million. The property at 2840 Broadway apparently changed hands in an off-market sale, and it was last purchased in 2011 for $33 million by Sloan Lindemann Barnett, daughter of billionaire art collector George Lindemann, and her husband, Roger Barnett; Architectural Digest called it "the most beautiful house in America" in 2021. [Chronicle]
  • Smoke from a passenger's laptop prompted a dramatic plane evacuation at SFO on Friday. This was an American Airlines flight to Miami, three passengers were reportedly injured while evacuating, and some passengers evacuated using inflatable slides. [NBC Bay Area]
  • An electrical fire in West Oakland early Friday morning left one resident in the attic of a duplex dead from smoke inhalation, and 19 people were displaced, including seven adults and 12 children. [KRON4]
  • A woman who was fatally stabbed in Richmond on the Fourth of July has been identified as 48-year-old Elindenia Silva of El Sobrante. [East Bay Times]
  • Insurance company Allstate says it was wants to raise California homeowners' insurance rates by an average of 34%. [KTVU]
  • The trial of actor Alec Baldwin for the October 2021 on-set shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has been dismissed with prejudice, apparently over ammunition evidence that the prosecution withheld from the defense. [KTVU]