Local:A mixed commercial and residential structure went up in flames in downtown Oakland Wednesday afternoon, sending smoke billowing over the city. The fire, on Webster Street between Sixth and Seventh streets, was extinguished as of 2:30 pm. [KTVU]Sausalito City Manager and former SF Port Director Elaine Forbes has resigned from her post Sausalito, two months after her arrest on burglary charges during an apparent mental health crisis. [ABC 7]The San Francisco Zoo said goodbye to Lulu, a 24-year-old female mandrill and longtime zoo resident, who died Tuesday following a medical procedure to remove a growth from her neck. [SF Zoo]National:Hurricane Lowell, which is spinning over the Pacific about 400 miles south of Hawaii, exploded into a Category 5 storm today — only the seventh storm on record to ever to do that in the central Pacific. The storm, which was expected to miss the Hawaiian islands by hundreds of miles, is now expected to take a sharp turn to the north this weekend, and it could still hit the western Hawaiian islands if it does so. [Chronicle]A shooting occurred today in Minneapolis at an apartment complex in the city's Loring Park neighborhood in which two people, and the gunman, were killed, and four people, including two police officers, were injured. [New York Times]There is new stress on the bond market which will, in turn, make it more expensive for Americans to get mortgages, and it's mostly because of the ongoing war with Iran. [CNN]Video:Arguably, George Lucas's billion-dollar vanity project, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, belongs more in Los Angeles than it does here. And as it's now getting its public unveiling this week, we can think about what could have been, back when Lucas was toying with putting the museum in the Presidio over a decade ago, and then, later, on Treasure Island, before ultimately choosing LA. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Los Angeles Times (@latimes) ...read more read less