9 Stories You Should Know About: Monday, Jan. 5

San Francisco police officers fatally shot a 32-year-old man Sunday after he pulled what turned out to be a replica gun while trespassing on restricted property in front of Mission Station, authorities said. The shooting happened outside the station at 630 Valencia St. at about 5:14 p.m., with an officer reporting shots fired and a person down, and then requesting an ambulance. Full story

With Jerry Brown beginning his historic fourth term as governor, KQED's John Myers looks ahead to what initiatives Brown may undertake to cement his legacy -- and what the year may hold for the state Legislature and key political figures. Full story

A ceremony scheduled Tuesday in Fresno will be largely symbolic, since planning and demolition for a 130-mile stretch of track began several months ago, but one thing is certain: Once construction begins, the $68 billion bullet train will begin steaming ahead. "Before, you never knew if and when the project would really get going," said Larry Gerston, a political expert at San Jose State University. "Now, as those tracks get laid, mile by mile, it gets harder and harder to turn back the idea." Full story

The rah-rah cheerleader persona that Libby Schaaf has cultivated since handily defeating Jean Quan in November doesn't always jibe with the woman inside City Hall who is never afraid to put down the pom-poms and roll up her sleeves. "Her mannerism is this nice little goody two-shoes person, but when she bites, she doesn't let go," said former Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente, who gave Schaaf her start in city politics 16 years ago. Full story

Beverley Concannon was in the bathroom of her home in Oakland’s Dimond neighborhood when she heard two loud bangs. She realized someone was kicking in her front door.
She called police, then walked into the hall and came face-to-face with a stranger. Within moments, she felt a piercing blow to her left shoulder. She had been shot by one of four young men who then fled with her laptop, driving away in a Toyota Camry that had been stolen from an Oakland hills home three days earlier. Full story

Scores and scores of photographs, captured by a deeply embedded photographer, offer an intimate portrait of Silicon Valley as it was translating the world from analog to digital. But at the whim of their brilliant and cantankerous subject, Steve Jobs, they were scarcely seen -- until now. Full story

As people gathered around a barbecue to taste the last of Drakes Bay owner Kevin Lunny's oysters, they lamented the loss of the business. For Lunny and his family, the celebration was bittersweet. Full story

San Francisco had something to prove. Its leaders wanted the world to know they had rebuilt since the earthquake and fires of 1906, and they wanted to woo the travelers and commerce that would be headed west through the just-completed Panama Canal. So they decided to throw a global party. San Diego had something to prove too. It had about 40,000 residents — about a tenth of San Francisco's population — but no cable cars, no Gold Rush glamour, no Mark Twain quotes. And a Mexican civil war was simmering just south in Tijuana. But San Diego wanted tourists and ship traffic. Even after President Taft and Congress threw their support behind San Francisco, San Diegans pressed ahead with plans for their own exposition. Full story

You already know you should be getting seven to nine hours of shut-eye a night. But are you? Probably not. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 percent of employed U.S. adults clock less than that, and the results aren't pretty. Not only does lack of sleep hamper longterm productivity, it can ravage your skin and your sex drive. Full story