Top of the morning’s news
- The National Weather Service issues a heat advisory for the Bay Area through 8 o’clock tonight, with temperatures expected to top 100 in some places. Chronicle
- Fueling speculation that it might retry Barry Bonds on three deadlocked counts, federal prosecutors asked a judge to postpone the hearing in the case until Aug. 26. The Bay Citizen
- The Gannett chain laid off 700 newspaper workers, or about 2 percent of its workforce. Romenesko
- State Sen. Leland Yee shows up after the Muni board’s vote to give Nathaniel Ford a $384,000 severance and ends up being asked tough questions about why as senator he voted to take $250 million from Muni over a three-year period. The Bay Citizen (plus video)
- Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom had his press spokesman deny that he is interested in running for Lynn Woolsey’s congressional seat if, as reported, she decides to retire. Chronicle Politics Blog
- The Senate unanimously approved Leon Panetta to replace the retiring Robert Gates as secretary of defense. HuffPo
- Kate Sears was seated as Marin County Supervisor to fill the seat left vacant by Charles McGlashan’s death. Marin IJ
- Alameda’s city council approved a contract with its besieged Fire Department over angry protests from the public demanding that firefighters take pay cuts. Chronicle
- Newly released documents show that PG&E employees, and not contractors, installed the compromised San Bruno pipeline that exploded, killing 8 people, as part of a construction job 55 years ago. Mercury News
- Oakland Mayor Jean Quan’s budget for the fiscal year that begins in a little more than a week remains up in the air after the City Council was unable to nail down union concessions that were supposed to help reduce the city’s projected $58 million deficit. Chronicle
- Angry cab drivers protested San Francisco taxi regulations in a noisy demonstration in front of City Hall but a threatened strike failed to take hold downtown. Chronicle
- The city of Oakland agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a claim from a woman who lost her leg after being hit by a car while walking near the MacArthur BART station. Oakland Tribune
- The Warriors gave team president Robert Rowell his walking papers. Oakland Tribune
- Less than a week before a University of New Mexico football player was tossed off a US Airways flight at SFO for wearing baggy pants, the airline allowed a man wearing little more than women’s underwear to fly, the airline conceded. Chronicle
- Oakland Mayor Jean Quan announced as the new city administrator Deanna Santana, San Jose’s deputy city manager, ending a months-long search. Oakland Tribune
- Sacramento police arrested a mother after determining that her baby likely died from burns suffered in a microwave oven. AP
- It was nine hits and eight runs for the Twins against Madison Bumgarner after only one out in the first last night in Minnesota, and the Giants lost 9-2. Chronicle
