Local:

  • The suspect believed responsible for a hit-and-run rampage Tuesday morning in Berkeley has been identified as 26-year-old Ivan Salvador Ochoa Munguia of Vallejo. "The exact circumstances that brought the suspect to Berkeley remain under investigation," says Berkeley police spokesperson Officer Jessica Perry. [Berkeleyside]
  • Carla "Sissi" Smith testified today in the second sexual abuse trial of her husband, former FCI Dublin guard Darrell "Dirty Dick" Smith, as the final defense witness. Smith's testimony was limited in scope, and mostly pertained to her own time working at the prison and how she met her husband 30 years ago. [KTVU]
  • A man was stabbed Wednesday afternoon at a bus-stop waiting area outside the Daly City BART station. The incident occured around 3:20 pm, the victim's condition is not known, and it does not sound like any arrest has been made. [KRON4]

National:

  • Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show has now been pulled off the air at ABC "indefinitely" over comments he made on air Monday about the motives of Charlie Kirk's shooter. As had been rumored online over the weekend, Kimmel suggested during his monologue that the shooter, Tyler Robinson, might have been a pro-Trump Republican, and he said, "The MAGA Gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it. In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving." [NY Times / CNN]
  • Former CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez testified before a Senate committee Wednesday and said that RFK Jr. was seeking changes to the childhood vaccine schedule without any basis in science. [CNN]
  • A proposed $5.4 billion Caesar's Palace Times Square casino, along with another proposed casino on Manhattan's west side, were shot down by community advisory groups empowered with advancing the casinos' licenses in a vote on Wednesday. [NY Times]

Video:

  • Berkeley-based food oracle and cookbook scribe Samin Nosrat has a much-anticipated new book coming out, and she just made a video with Conde Nast Traveler about her favorite spots to eat in San Francisco.

Top image: Jimmy Kimmel attends the 28th Annual UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation's "Taste For A Cure" event at Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel on May 02, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation)