• All that spending on ads by AIPAC to attack state Senator Aisha Wahab may have had an impact, and the runoff election to complete the remainder of former Congressman Eric Swalwell's term is looking very close. While Wahab had a double-digit lead over opponent Melissa Hernandez back in June, that is currently just a two-point lead, with 62% of votes counted. [Associated Press]
  • A 50-year-old man, Isaac Bowler, has been arrested for vehicular manslaughter in the July 14 death of cyclist David Wesley Reinhart in SF's SoMa neighborhood. The collision happened around 4 am on the 200 block of Sixth Street. [Chronicle]
  • A 27-year-old man was arrested in Guerneville after allegedly punching an elderly man in the face, knocking him to the ground, and kicking him in an unprovoked, random attack. [KRON4]
  • Two people were stabbed in a suspected road-rage incident in San Jose on Tuesday, at the intersection of Curtner and Cottle avenues. [KTVU]
  • A string of auto burglaries in Piedmont on the morning of August 16 is now under investigation by Piedmont police. [KRON4]
  • Animal rights advocates have renewed calls to remove all dolphins from captivity at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo after a bottlenose dolphin that had been there 40 years recently was euthanized. [Bay City News]
  • Advocates for a 3-year-old Anatolian Shepherd named Bruce who was sentenced to euthanasia in Ventura County because he was deemed "vicious" filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to save him, highlighting how many emergency requests the court gets these days — and he was euthanized before they could consider the case. [New York Times]

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