• In a preliminary hearing Thursday for the man accused in the April shooting that took place outside a Mission Street barbershop, we learn that an argument may have begun over a thrown piece of bread. 30-year-old Alexander Martinez, the man accused, claims he did not mean for his gun to go off when he aimed it at 23-year-old Venezuelan immigrant Alberto Vargas Quero. [Mission Local]
  • Two people were killed after going over a cliff in a vehicle Friday at the notorious Devil's Slide on Highway 1 in San Mateo County. [KTVU]
  • Waymo has sued the guy accused of slashing its cars tires 17 times last month, and the company is suing someone else who they say intentionally rear-ended one of their vehicles. [Wired]
  • A 71-year-old woman, Melody Han Lo, was reported missing in Oakland after last being seen Thursday afternoon on the 2900 block of Fruitvale Avenue. [KRON4]
  • The iconic Flood Building at Powell and Market streets in San Francisco has struggled to fill the prominent retail space left vacant by The Gap four years ago, and owner Karin Flood tells the Chronicle she had a national fashion brand interested until they heard about the Banko Brown shooting across the street last year. [Chronicle]
  • Alphabet made a play to buy cybersecurity firm Wiz for $23 billion, which would have been the company's biggest acquisition to date, but the CEO decided to walk away from the deal and go public. [New York Times]
  • Cal Shakes is turning to crowdfunding to close a fundraising gap of $350,000, which they thought would come from grants and corporate sponsors, ahead of their first self-produced show in two years, As You Like It. [Chronicle]