• Rain is back in the forecast for San Francisco this week, starting today. Expect showers to begin around noon and become steadier in the afternoon, with some breaks in between, and some slightly heavier rain is expected Wednesday. [Accuweather]
• Mission District food vendors who typically set up near the 16th and 24th Street BART station plazas were kept away by city workers for all of Super Bowl week, in order to "clean up" the plazas, and they are fuming over the lost business. [Mission Local]
• Kaiser Permanente patients remain in a lurch as a nurses' strike enters its third week, and as the strike has expanded to include thousands more employees, with the two sides still far apart in negotiations. [Bay Area News Group]
• There were two pileups involving a total of seven cars crashing into each other in the southbound lanes of the Golden Gate Bridge Monday morning, which led to a backup that lasted about 30 minutes. [Bay Area News Group]
• Grammy winner Sam Smith kicks off a monthlong residency at the newly reopened Castro Theatre starting tonight, giving the Castro neighborhood its first glimpse of what concert crowds will look like. [NBC Bay Area]
• Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine has officially announced her run for re-election this year, in a race that will be closely watched and expensive as it stands to give Democrats a potential seat to flip. [New York Times]
• Biologists just documented the first gray wolf to enter Los Angeles County in 100 years, as the species makes a comeback across the state. [Bay Area News Group]

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