- An earthquake warning rang out on all cellphones that have the ShakeAlert system activated at 1:40 am Thursday, saying that a 5.0M quake was coming. The brief earthquake was later downgraded to 4.6M, it was centered a mile from Boulder Creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and it caused some mild shaking in San Francisco. [Associated Press]
- The victim in Tuesday's fatal stabbing near Milpitas High School has been identified as 17-year-old Jarred Cavan. Cavan's girlfriend Raya says she tried to protect him, and says that they were ganged up by a group of about eight others; another 17-year-old has been arrested for the stabbing. [KTVU]
- While homicides trend upward in San Francisco, violent crime is down 29% in Oakland for the first three months of the year. [KRON4]
- Leigh Hanson, the woman who served as former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's chief of staff during her tumultuous tenure and for several months afterward under the interim mayor, Kevin Jenkins, is now suing the city saying that Jenkins fired her over blowing the whistle on his violation of city rules, including accepting gifts from lobbyists. [Chronicle]
- Assemblymember Buffy Wicks [D-Oakland/Berkeley] just helped introduce a half dozen new state bills that will facilitate the growth of low-cost, factory-built housing to help ease the state's housing shortage. [NBC Bay Area]
- The nonprofit Chinatown Media and Arts Collaborative (CMAC) has purchased the six-story building at 838 Grant Avenue, aka the Empress of China building, with plans to establish a culture hub and a museum, likely focused on the history of Chinese Americans nationwide. [Chronicle]
- The office portion of downtown's 181 Fremont tower, which had been leased up by Meta just before the pandemic and never really occupied, is now filling up with AI startups and only has a few floors left available for lease. [Chronicle]
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