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Starting sometime in April, library books will be available at Contra Costa County BART stations via "ATM style lending machines." A new program called Library-a-Go-Go, along with the Contra Costa County Library, will allow BART riders to simply swipe a card, select a book, wait for said book choice to drop, and then return the book after the rider is finished reading their literary gem. The machines will "hold around 400 popular and best-selling titles, both fiction and nonfiction, and will be accessible during Bart hours."

• On Friday night at around 11:30 p.m., the intersection of Leavenworth and O'Farrell played host to a shooting. It seems that shots were fired from one car into another, leaving two males seriously injured. No deaths, no arrests. Not to be outdone, Hyde and Turk set the stage for a stabbing on Sunday, 2:20 a.m. The victim was rushed to SFGH. Again: no death, no arrests.
• San Mateo saw its first homicide since 2006. A TGI Friday's employee found the dead body of their manager this morning inside the local chain. Located at 3101 El Camino Real across from the Hillsdale Shopping Center, detectives aren't exactly sure what happened. Although Marji Fields--a regular of the fine-dining establishment--tells the Gate that over the last month they have witnessed "'horrible altercations happening with a lot of the younger crowd...[t]he 20- and 21-year-olds, they come in and they get real stupid." Tell me about it, Marji.
• Speaking of rapscallions, be careful how you answer the next time one of them tries to bum a smoke off you. Over in Contra Costa County this morning, a teenager allegedly shot a Bay Point man twice after the victim refused to give the teen a cancer stick. Charming. The victim, a man in his 40s, is listed in stable condition.

And the Bay Area dominates your reality TV scene YET AGAIN!!! Danville's own Evan O'Dorney, sponsored by the proud-as-punch Contra Costa Times, wins this year's spelling bee on the word "serrefine," which is not a brand of drinking water but rather, is a small set of forceps used for clamping blood vessels.

-Three old ladies about start hugging trees in Berkeley. -City to step up fight against graffiti. -Beyond Chron wants Matt to run. -There was a kidnapping attempt in Marin. -The Alameda Main Street ferry terminal has been reopened. -The iPhone might not be so iGreat. -Man found dead under BART train at Pittsburg/Bay Point station. -Tim Goodman puts on the cranky pants today. We love when he puts on the cranky pants.

Special single-issue Blotter today -- there's a bad situation brewing in the Bay Point.

The only MacArthur we've ever encountered is the last BART stop to change from the Pittsburg/Bay Point and Richmond lines! Four folks in the Bay Area, though, have slightly different associations with the word, now that they've been awarded MacArthur genius grants of half a million dollars apiece. Three of our local winners are from Cal and one is from Stanford. From Cal, Lu Chen is a neuroscientist researching memory. Nicole King studies unicellular evolution, Michael Manga is a geophysicist studying Bay Area earthquakes, and from Stanford, Pehr Harbury is in drug bioengineering. The grant recipients can use the money for whatever they like. The other 21 winners this year include author Jonathan Lethem, an ergonomic violinmaker, a fisherman, a man who's been working to reduce auto emissions, and a rare book restorer. There was a hilarious article in the NY Times from a winner from last year, whose daughter takes great glee in defeating him at Candyland now ("I thought you were a genius, Daddy,"), and other Bay Area winners from last year (who included a local high school debate teacher) say they're all doing very well.