• A video shot by ABC7 Eyewitness News reporter Lyanne Melendez and posted to Xitter of the notorious homeless encampment at 8th and Harrison streets in Berkeley, near the UC Berkeley campus, has gone viral. Melendez took the video, she said, as she was dropping her son off at college, saying "Shame on Berkeley" for not cleaning it up, but the site has been at the center of legal fights for years. [ABC 7]
  • Mychal Threets, the North Bay librarian who gained social media fame for spreading joy about reading two years ago and was later tapped by PBS to resurrect Reading Rainbow, said he was having a mental health crisis and checking into a hospital. [KRON4]
  • A motorcyclist died in a crash Thursday morning around 6 am on southbound 101 in East Palo Alto, leading to two lanes being closed and closing the southbound on-ramp from University Avenue. [KRON4]
  • Police in San Jose found human skeletal remains in the area of Santa Teresa Boulevard and Bayliss Drive on Tuesday after being called to the scene of "suspicious circumstances," and the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office has taken over the investigation. [KTVU]
  • An academically rigorous private school, BASIS Independent, with a campuses in Fremont and Sunnyvale, has opened its latest campus in Dublin, serving grades 5-10. [Chronicle]
  • AI apps that "nudity" photos and often have no age restrictions pose a particular issue as kids head back to school. [KPIX]
  • Under Trump, the US government has been selling truckloads of wild horses to livestock traders who are turning around and selling them for slaughter, in Canada and elsewhere. [New York Times]