• Two small earthquakes rumbled under Cloverdale and northern Sonoma County on Tuesday evening. The first of the quakes measured a 4.2 magnitude, and was felt in Healdsburg and Windsor. [KPIX]
• An indoor cat in Pleasanton, who only had access to a balcony, contracted rabies somehow and had to be euthanized last month, according to county health officials. Officials believe the cat must have had contact with a rabid bat while on the balcony. [KRON4]
• A Richmond couple headed out to celebrate their 31st wedding anniversary was struck by multiple bullets earlier this month, with the husband struck in both legs and currently unable to walk. [KTVU]
• The city council in Antioch just turned down $35 million in state funding for housing for people experiencing homelessness, saying the city couldn't commit to the long-term costs of the project. [NBC Bay Area]
• Newly hired Oakland Police Chief James Beere is set to be officially sworn in this morning. [KTVU]
• Dr. Anthony Fauci was again dragged before a Senate committee this morning to be grilled about the source of the COVID-19 pandemic and to hear Republicans air various grievances and conspiracy theories, and he invoked the Fifth Amendment after telling Senator Rand Paul "you have an unhinged obsession with me." [New York Times]
• Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who won an Oscar for Best Original Song for the movie Once, and was featured in the 1991 film The Commitments, died early Wednesday in a motorcycle accident outside Dublin, Ireland. [KQED]

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