9 Stories You Should Know About Today

Berkeley business owners were assessing the damage early Monday after protesters vandalized and looted stores, set fires and clashed with police on a freeway during the second straight night of demonstrations in the city against police killings of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York. Full story

Recommended: a running account of Sunday's march and unrest in the East Bay. Full story

Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said he wants the people who are causing widespread violence during protests in his city to “take off their masks and show us who you really are.” Bates along with other Berkeley residents believe their right to peacefully demonstrate over the failure of a New York grand jury to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner,an unarmed black man, has been hijacked by outsiders. Full story

Tom Dalzell looks too strait-laced to be the arbiter of the eccentric. Nonetheless, almost two years ago, Mr. Dalzell, 63, set out in his khakis and comfortable shoes to walk every street, alleyway and path and document this city’s material oddities on a website he calls Quirky Berkeley. “There is a tremendous diversity of thought here,” Mr. Dalzell said. “And one of the ways we express our lack of conformity is with the quirky things we put on our houses and in our yards.” Full story

As protests rage across the country in reaction to police officers not being charged in two separate killings of unarmed black men, the call for cops to wear body cameras has grown to a steady roar. It’s with this backdrop that the San Jose Police Department received praise last week for 12 officers volunteering to wear body cameras as part of a pilot program. What several reports failed to mention, however, is that internal politics has temporarily derailed the program. Full story

Fresh off last week's storm that brought most of the Bay Area to its annual rainfall totals, the Bay Area is bracing for another soaking later this week that could help produce one of the wettest Decembers in a decade. A powerful storm system is expected to hit the Bay Area beginning Wednesday night and drop as much as four inches of rain in some urban areas, according to the National Weather Service. The system is also expected to bring heavy winds with gusts up to 50 mph. Full story

It was a day to ponder the joy and risk of life on the sea when the fishing community of Bodega Bay met under gray skies Sunday afternoon to honor four fishermen who died when their boat capsized Nov. 1. Full story

Napster did not last long, two years. But ... it irrevocably altered not only the way in which Americans absorbed music but also their belief system in what they should pay. The conviction theologically held by many boiled down to a single word: nothing. Full story

Give the Raiders their due. Instead of folding the tent against their Bay Area rivals, Oakland played its finest game of the year on defense and rode a three-touchdown day from Derek Carr to dial up Sunday's biggest upset. Two years removed from the Super Bowl, Jim Harbaugh's squad looks nothing like a playoff team. Full story