Top of the morning’s news:
- It’s looking more like rain for Sunday’s 49ers-Giants NFC championship game at Candlestick. Examiner
- The California Supreme Court will review whether cities and counties may ban medical marijuana stores. LA Times
- Newt Gingrich turns allegations by his second wife into a diatribe against the news media during last night’s South Carolina debate. LA Times
- UCSF’s chancellor unveiled a “novel governance” proposal under which it could separate from the rest of the UC system. Chronicle
- The latest review of the Oakland Police Department shows no progress in reforms ordered a decade ago after the Riders police corruption case. Oakland Tribune
- Underground Metro service was snarled for more than an hour after a drunken driver drove his SUV into a Muni Metro tunnel and got stuck a half-mile in. Chronicle
- UC Berkeley faculty members got between Occupy Cal protestors and police during a takeover of the anthropology library last night. Oakland Tribune
- Saint Mary’s, which cracked both the AP and USA Today Top 25 basketball rankings, won its 8th straight game, beating Pepperdine 61-47. Contra Costa Times
