The Golden State Valkyries play their first WNBA Finals game in franchise history today and they've tapped 94-year-old Oscar winner (and East Bay resident) Rita Moreno to serve as the team's honorary drum-banger. Meanwhile, some fans are celebrating the Valkyries' playoff run and the Halloween seaso n with the aptly-named "Boohalla." [SF Standard; KRON4]Staff at Marin Humane got an intense surprise earlier this week when someone left a bucket in their lobby that turned out to have a live rattlesnake at the bottom. The unidentified person reportedly "turned and left without a word" after depositing the bucket. [KRON4]LVMH, the French luxury company that oversees Louis Vuitton and Dior, has purchased a building on Post Street in Union Square, possibly portending a move for Louis Vuitton’s current SF flagship location on Geary Street. [Chronicle]A sewage leak is temporarily halting oyster harvesting efforts at Tomales Bay. [KTVU]Officials with Santa Clara University have announced that, starting next fall, they plan to offer free education to eligible low-income students. [NBC Bay Area]A new lawsuit filed by a 39-year-old Washington man accuses OpenAI's ChatGPT of giving him unlicensed medical advice that, in turn, led him to suffer a mental health crisis. [KPIX]The FBI has added a 75-year-old Southern California woman to its newly created Most Wanted Fraudsters list for allegedly stealing more than $15 million while posing as an aircraft heiress. [KTVU]Pope Leo XIV was discharged from the hospital today after undergoing lung cancer surgery earlier this week. [NPR] ...read more read less