Day Around the Bay: Jed York Suspended For Six Games Over Solicitation Arrest

Local:

• A married couple in their sixties were both found dead of gunshot wounds outside their home in the Berkeley hills Friday, with a gun lying nearby, in what sounds like a murder-suicide. Police say they are not looking for any suspect, and there is no threat to the neighborhood. [Chronicle]
• 49ers owner Jed York has been officially punished by the NFL for his embarrassing August arrest in a prostitution sting in Ohio. For violating the league's personal conduct policy, York is being fined a half-million dollars and is suspended from attending six games, three of which he has already skipped this season. [KTVU]
• 'Zoo Lights,' the popular holiday season nighttime event that ended in 2018, is returning to the SF Zoo, perhaps to compete with the very popular Glowfari at the Oakland Zoo. [NBC Bay Area]

National:

• Christa Pike, the convicted killer who the state of Tennessee failed to execute by lethal injection on Wednesday night, remains unconscious and on a ventilator, in critical condition. Legal and ethical questions now remain regarding when a state can execute person, because they have to be conscious and fully aware of why they are being executed, under the law. [New York Times / Associated Press]
• The Flydubai co-pilot who allegedly stabbed the captain of an Israel-bound flight and tried to crash the plane Wednesday was reportedly removed from a previous job at Oman's national airline — he is an Omani citizen — over his extremist and radical views. [CNN]
• New York Governor Kathy Hochul issued a strong rebuke of the Cornell University police department and the local district attorney for their handling of a rape accusation in 2024 that has now become national news. [New York Times]

Video:

• Here's a quick dispatch from Golden Gate Park, where opening act Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams kicked things off a couple hours ago at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 26. If you're not going to make it out there this year, might we suggest downloading the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass app on your Apple TV or Roku, or catching the livestream here.