Bay Area’s overheated housing market by zip codes, Jerry Brown’s coming struggle with Dems over education funding reform, another round of pink slips at struggling Electronic Arts, more.
- The Bay Area’s overheated housing market is spreading pre-crash prosperity from Silicon Valley into the East Bay. Mercury News
- The Mercury News surveys the fight Gov. Jerry Brown faces—with lawmakers of his own party—over his sweeping plan to overhaul the way public education is funded.
- Aaron Ahern, the 11-year-old Martinez boy severely injured in the Boston Marathon explosions returned to Boylston Street, in a wheelchair, while continuing to recover. Contra Costa Times
- More layoffs at struggling Electronic Arts in Redwood City. Mercury News
- Both of those sisters arrested on felony child abuse charges and accused of swaddling infants at a Livermore child care center so tightly they could hardly breathe are pregnant. Mercury News
- Former Jefferson Starship member and Marin resident Pete Sears’ custom-built bass guitar, stolen during a riot at a rock festival in Germany 35 years ago, has turned up in Europe after being kept in a closet for years and is being returned to him. Marin IJ
- Non-citizen immigrants would be eligible for jury duty under a bill that cleared the state Assembly Thursday. Sac Bee
- Alameda planners turned down a request from a developer for a restaurant and brewery to open at a former car dealership on Park Street. Mercury News
- San Ramon-based Chevron reported quarterly profits of $6.18 billion. Contra Costa Times
- The 49ers traded up 13 slots to take LSU safety Eric Reid with the 18th overall pick in the NFL draft. Mercury News
- The Raiders, with the overall No. 12 pick in the draft, grabbed University of Houston cornerback D. J. Hayden. Mercury News
