Gas prices soar, Sunnyvale tech startup acknowledges underpaying Mexican workers, Condoleezza Rice’s golf shot injures woman at Pebble Beach, more.
- Gas prices have soared to around the $4 per gallon mark statewide. Mercury News
- Former San Jose State football star Yonus Davis was sentenced to three years in prison for selling massive amounts of the party drug Ecstasy. Mercury News
- Sunnyvale clean-tech startup Bloom Energy took responsibility for underpaying 14 Mexican workers, saying its actions were “inconsistent with our culture and values.” Mercury News
- Daly City woman is charged with forging the signatures of 16 San Jose city officials and their spouses on petitions for a ballot measure that passed in November. Chronicle
- Federal agents have joined in the investigation of the killing of a 13-year-old girl whose body was found in a Fairfield park. Chronicle
- Stanford prof and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hit a female spectator in the head with a shot on the 6th hole during the pro-am at Pebble Beach. AP
