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By day he's an Alight Electric employee. By night? A Ford F-350 Super Duty hero. It seems that last night on the Golden Gate Bridge, John Beatty of Mill Valley saved the day, so to speak, after noticing a woman unconscious in her Jeep, moving into oncoming traffic. At around 6:50 p.m., Sylvia Durrance, 62, came to a stop while driving southbound in the No. 2 lane. She appeared lifeless, her body slumped over...

-- Judge tosses out California's new lethal injection procedures. [SFGate]

-- Ed Jew preliminary. [Chron]

-- Thousands -- thousands!! -- without power because of small rainfall. Sheesh. [KPIX]

-- Are you ready for the genius that is Peaches Christ and her Midnight Mass cult-film series? [Bay Area Reporter] -- Television -- glorious, warm, loving television! -- on BART cars? Hmm. [Inside Bay Area, Oakland Tribune] -- Matt Stroud takes a brief, much-needed break from his Rocky-like boxing bootcamp training. [The Snitch] -- Affordable housing advocates get pinched by the fuzz. Remember, purveyors of justice: don't drop the soap! [Fog City Journal] --...

--One person is dead after a Caltrain hit a car in Palo Alto this afternoon. [CBS 5, Merc News.]

--The Dyke March was fun. [Chron.]

--Here's today's mini-blotter: a family murder-suicide in Tilden Park; Man hit by a BART train at Balboa Park in the late morning today; a guy drove off the side of Mount Tam [Inside Bay Area, the EBX 92510, the Chron; CBS 5; Marin IJ].

Here's todays sports wrap up

-The Rai-duhs are going to take their time looking for a new coach which is code for "find somebody desperate enough to take the job." The Betting Fool wallows in the Raiders' misery.

-So we've already had our say about Art's canning, but what does everyone else say? Ray Ratto wishes whomever the next coach is good luck and Gwen Knapp thinks it should be the Mulleted One (as does Don Banks on CNNSI). Raiders Fan House runs down a list of candidates as does Inside Bay Area. In the national sites, Deadspin wonders if Al and Art are the new Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner and ESPN's Mark Kreidler thinks Al needs to get over himself and hire some big name guy. Over in San Jose, Mark Purdy picks Bill Cowher out of his ass as a potential replacement.

Well, the Powers that Be decided to actually give us two NFL games on TV this morning at once. That's the good news. The bad news is one features the Raiders and the other the Detroit Lions. Which means that someone, somewhere, thinks everyone here is so tied into who gets the #1 pick next year that everyone in the Bay Area wants to watch both teams at the same time.

An AC Transit bus was involved in an accident this morning, injuring three. The whole thing happened right around 8 in the morning at the intersection of Seminary Avenue and International Boulevard. What happened was a pickup truck ran a red light and slammed into the AC Transit bus. Damn red light runners. The bus then hit two parked cars and slammed into a building. The injured included the bus driver, a passenger, and the driver of the pick up truck. No word yet on how serious the injuries are.

Fremont might be getting the A's, but they're getting no love from filmmakers. That's because the makers of the movie version of "The Kite Runner" has decided to film the scenes that take place in Fremont not in Fremont but in Berkeley. Filmmakers say it costs too much to film in Fremont and so they often substitute Berkeley whenever they shoot scenes that take place in Fremont.

Bonds signing, Day 2... While the players are psyched and according to the Chron, Giant's fans are too, Bruce Jenkins is not. He, in fact, drops in to rip the deal, calling the front office "gutless," says the season is already over, wishes the team were more like the Dodgers, and thinks the Giants are basically nothing but a freak show right now. Jenkins must have powered the energy haterade as he cranks out two columns and makes Eve's day by posting on the blog too. The Betting Fool, however, gets all misty when comparing Bonds to the late Jose Uribe and let's his readers rip the deal. Meanwhile, Tim Liotta of the Ex sees gray people.

-Shootout on 880 leads to one death, one injured and major traffic. -The search for the lost family continues on

It's looking like a dreaded nut ring that has been terrorizing the Central Valley has been broken up as police arrested the two ringleaders on Sunday. The thieves, named Alvin and Simon, were caught with about $400,000 dollars worth of nuts on them. They were caught on Sunday when an alert factory worker noticed that several people were taking nuts out of boxes marked with the names of Central Valley nut companies and putting them into unmarked boxes. After about eleven people were taken into questioning, only two of them were charged.

SFPD not surprised that a member was off doing kiddy sex junkets in Asia as they sort of knew it for years. -Caltrain board approves plan for Wi-FI on Caltrains. Thousands of commuters jump for joy.

In a great story on Inside Bay Area (via BoingBoing), a 'preppy' blonde girl went undercover as a 'goth' brunette to see if local retailers in a Pleasanton mall would treat her differently than her friend, who dressed upscale, when applying for jobs. Turns out, yes, they did! In fact, while Hot Topic was at least polite about the fact that the fishnets-and-combat-boots style wasn't what they were looking for, Abercrombie and Fitch were downright rude and dismissive to Ms. Goth, offering the preppy looking girl who claimed to have no experience or references an invitation to a group interview (and three follow-up calls).