Children’s hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland to merge, Berkeley pot dispensary dinged by city says it’s moving to Vallejo, fake doctor who performed surgeries goes to court, more.
- UCSF’s Benioff Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Oakland signed a formal letter of intent to merge. SF Business Times
- The owner of a Berkeley pot dispensary that the city declared a nuisance says he’ll take the business to Vallejo. Oakland Tribune
- It was the second day of a court hearing for the San Francisco man accused of impersonating a physician’s assistant and performing surgeries on unwitting patients. ABC 7
- Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland withdrew her name for vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus. Political Blotter
- A federal judge sentenced Kinde Durkee, the former campaign treasurer to Sen. Dianne Feinstein and other Democrats, to 8 years in prison for embezzlement. Chronicle
- No suspects yet in the murder of two Oakland girls, ages 15 and 16 and described as best friends, found shot to death Sunday near East Oakland’s Brookdale Park. Oakland Tribune
