Monday Morning Headlines: Dreary Weather Should End Soon

This dreary, persistently gray weather has been thanks to a cutoff low pressure system that is slowly moving out of the Bay Area. A warm-up is, thankfully, supposed to come on Tuesday. [Chronicle]
As Antolin Garcia-Torres heads back to trial in the Sierra LaMar murder case, after his previous conviction was overturned, Santa Clara County prosecutors and the defense were scheduled to make pre-trial motions Monday morning. Defense attorneys are trying to exclude any discussion of sexual motives in the case, while prosecutors say that a sexual motive is "an entirely proper inference" given the evidence. [KRON4]
Longtime San Francisco Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper announced that he is being treated for throat cancer, saying it is unrelated to the cancer he was treated for five years ago. [KPIX]
A male passenger went overboard on a Carnival cruise traveling from Puerto Vallarta to Long Beach on Saturday night. [ABC 7]
The Chronicle is now highlighting how residents of "The Hub," the city-created zone that isn't quite a neighborhood around South Van Ness and Mission, are complaining about how Tenderloin and Civic Center area drug activity has been pushed to their doorsteps. [Chronicle]
Santa Cruz-based Joby Aviation announced Friday that one of its autonomous aircraft successfully made a cross-country journey, from Concord to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, without any assistance from its onboard safety pilot. [Engadget]
Presley Gerber, the son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber and brother of actress Kaia Gerber, has died at age 27 while at a rehab facility. [ABC 7]

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