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15-year-old Allison Bayliss of Danville was last seen Monday morning riding to San Ramon Valley High School. Her bike was found near the Golden Gate Bridge. SF Appeal reports: “At about 4:45 a.m. today, Bayliss’ family informed authorities that they had found Allison’s bike in the Battery East parking lot, just to the east of the bridge on the San Francisco side.” A search is now underway for the missing teen. [ more › ]

17 years in the making, the MacArthur Transit Village project has finally broken ground, making way for what will be a huge and potentially transformative development in a fairly desolate part of Oakland. The project, sponsored in part by the Oakland Community and Economic Development Agency and the Federal Transit Authority, will ultimately include a 624-unit residential project on the site of what is now the MacArthur BART’s parking lot. [ more › ]

In this week’s installment our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society reveal some proprietary secrets and brief lessons on how you, dear readers, can also engage yourself in their particular line of work. [ more › ]

Untitled photo by Justin Beck. [ more › ]

Giovanni Ramirez, the 31-year-old parolee arrested Sunday for allegedly taking part in the attack that left Giants fan Bryan Stow in a coma, is now claiming he has three witnesses ready to tell the court that he was in his apartment on opening day and nowhere near Chavez Ravine. TMZ, with it’s many slimy fingers around Los Angeles, scooped the info from Ramirez’ lawyer. Ramirez’ arrest came after his parole officer noticed a resemblance to the suspect sketches posted all over town. According to the Examiner, Ramirez’ record includes attempted robbery and possession of “composite or hard wooden knuckles”. He’s also had a few other assault and drug-related charges dismissed, so he’s not exactly a model citizen. [ more › ]

The state Assembly voted against fishermen who rip off shark fins and toss the still-barely-living sea creatures back into the ocean. “AB376 bans the sale, trade or possession of shark fins, a delicacy that costs hundreds of dollars per pound and is used to create a soup popular among Asians,” reports KTVU. “The Assembly approved the bill 60-8.” Although the extinction of these sharks pose a threat to underwater ecosystems, some have decried the shark fin ban as an assault on Asian cultural cuisine. Namely, both Mayor Ed Lee and mayoral candidate Sen. Leland Yee champion the destruction of our endangered shark population for soup. [ more › ]

Part of National Missing Children’s Day on Wednesday, May 25, the Presidio Trust, the United States Park Police and the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association will hold a free Fingerprint Your Child from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio. Fingerprint cards will be given to parents to keep and distribute to law agencies if, God forbid, anything bad should happen. Parents can also add additional information such as a physical description, medical and dental records, even a DNA sample on the cars, which can then be used by any law enforcement agency to help identify a missing child. No other personal information collected will be kept or stored by any government agency. [ more › ]

In today’s morning links: Free coffee and protests (a winning San Francisco combo), Oakland’s re-opened Kwik-Way is reviewed by the locals, a parklet grows on Fulton and neighbors celebrate with a pie party, planking is the latest way for people to annoy you on Muni, another café pops open on Polk, Danville authorities search for a missing 15-year-old girl, a Gilroy man exposes himself to a lemonade stand, a tour bus swerves off the 80 near Vacaville, and one blind item. Just for fun. [ more › ]

Due to a technical glitch of sorts, Harold Camping has revised his rapture date to October 21, 2011. If you recall, the Family Radio minister’s prediction of a ruinous May 21 rapture never happened. During a long-winded 90-minute radio show on Monday night, Camping explained himself thusly: “Were not changing a date at all; we’re just learning that we have to be a little more spiritual about this…But on Oct. 21, the world will be destroyed. It won’t be five months of destruction. It will come at once.” [ more › ]