An an oil boom floats around the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. The Concordia ran aground on Jan. 13 after the captain deviated...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A grandmother is facing child endangerment charges after a 1-month-old boy was left alone in a car seat on a Sacramento County sidewalk, authorities said Saturday. California Highway...

Lyndon LaRouche devotees proselytizing in Marin and displaying posters that portray President Barack Obama with a Hitler-style mustache have elicited a rash of complaints to local police and public...

NEW YORK -- When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer -- "a sea of pink" traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich. -- she was so moved she sat in her...

By Kwon Mee-yoo Staff reporter The United States-based United Airlines (UA) has introduced lie-flat seats in its first and business class sections on flights connecting Incheon and San Francisco....

Everyone wants to be happy. And yet most people aren't even sure what happiness is -- much less how to get it. Unraveling that mystery is the work of smile science, a field that relies on...

that up."First, two important facts: Stanford Hospital provided great care, and it lost money on my dad. Of his final bill, Medicare only paid $67,800. Like other hospitals, Stanford only...

After a chase, two men were arrested in connection with a shooting in Richmond early this morning that left one victim in critical condition, police said. Richmond police responded to a report that...

INDIANAPOLIS o San Francisco's Jim Harbaugh has won the 2011 Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year award for leading the 49ers back to the...

are trying to cheat them out of millions of dollars. The issue: The Mieuli heirs want to sell their piece of the Niners, and they say the Yorks are lowballing them on the value of the team. The...

In this photo taken on Jan. 27, 2012 a cruise liner sails past the Giudecca canal in Venice, Italy. The fatal grounding of the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast has sharpened the focus on the...

California has the most expensive red-light camera tickets in the world - the fine is so steep that one camera in Oakland generates more than $3 million a year - and a Fremont man is launching a...

This traditional-style home at 301 Lakefield Place, Moraga is located on a private, 2.8-acre gated property. It offers five bedrooms and 3.5 baths over 3,962 square feet and is listed for $1.649...

With considerably less fanfare than it received in 1999, San Francisco's Metreon on Saturday debuted its modest and somewhat more open design. People visiting the former "entertainment...

Bevan Dufty (left) speaks at Larkin Street Youth Services Drop-In Center, where Mayor Ed Lee (right) announced Dufty's appointment as director of...

There are so many positive aspects to the fast-moving plans for the Salesforce.com campus in Mission Bay that architectural nitpicking might seem, yes, picky. But with the 9-acre first phase now one...

49ers for their new stadium is the end of any hope the team will stay in San Francisco. I still say out-of-towners who fly in to watch their team play the Niners in Santa Clara will stay in San...

An incomplete fireplace installation was identified as the cause of a Friday morning fire in Hayward that caused about $20,000 in damage, a fire captain said. Firefighters quickly extinguished a fire...

The family of a Santa Clara Marine who took his life in Afghanistan last year after several hours of hazing is accusing the military of not doing enough to stop the practice and not properly...

The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced six new members Saturday, but none of the main Bay Area candidates -- Eddie DeBartolo, Tim Brown and Charles Haley -- got the call.Instead, running back Curtis...

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Friday night for a missing crab fisherman from San Ramon who did not return from a trip off the San Mateo County coast.Searchers had combed more than 3,800...

A 54-year-old man who complained of stroke-like symptoms while 200 miles out at sea on a cargo ship was rescued Saturday by Air National Guardsmen from the 129th Rescue Wing.Two rescue helicopters...

A San Jose woman jumped out of a moving car Saturday to escape the clutches of her former boyfriend, who police say kidnapped her and assaulted a friend of hers before being arrested.Milpitas police...

FREMONT -- Gus Morrison has been here before but never under these conditions.As interim mayor, he'll be working with the rest of the City Council under tight budget constraints without a...

I'm a big believer in geographic determinism, and I suspect the clement weather in San Francisco has a lot to do with its pervading buoyant mood. That's why I disagree with the standard...

This 1960s urban renewal project embodies everything misguided in the planning of that era, treating the existing city as a thing to be razed or ignored. But give credit to the creators and their...

Among the Tenderloin's problems -- brothels masquerading as massage parlors, open-air dealing of heroin, oxycodone, crack cocaine and other hard drugs -- medical marijuana seemed low on the list...

(02-04) 17:10 PST Redwood City -- A Redwood City elementary school teacher suspected of physically abusing two students was arrested today by Redwood City police. Alexia Aliki Bogdisis, 44, turned...

(02-04) 16:46 PST Daly City -- The California Highway Patrol is searching for dark blue Prius and its driver following an incident this morning on Interstate 280 that resulted in the death of a San...

A week after a violent protest by Occupy demonstrators resulted in more than 400 arrests, calm reigned Saturday night as a small crowd of about 100 marchers was turned away from the Oakland Police...

49ers from Stanford. "There's really no sentence that you could put Bill Walsh and Jim Harbaugh" together, he said. "I have a long way to go and a lot of work ahead of me before...

This is London: Yellow construction cranes tower over inner-city building sites; popular gathering spots rumble with earth-moving equipment, along with the usual heaving masses of shoppers and...

Posey: I think sometimes you just can't explain why things happen. That's the beauty of this game, it's a crazy game and it's hard to explain sometimes. I do know that I was in...

49ers ' stirring victory over the Saints three weeks ago. "Well," Bochy croaked in his basso profundo. "The best football game anyway." Giants fans will be happy to hear...

(02-04) 17:28 PST Oakland -- An Oakland man was shot and killed this afternoon by two other men who remain at large. The assault occurred at 2:40 p.m. on the 400 block of 105th Avenue, according to...

(02-04) 10:23 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for a missing crabber from San Ramon whose boat was found off the coast near Ano Nuevo State Park. The 18-foot...

Lauri Korpikoski's second goal of the contest was the game-winner Saturday in the Phoenix Coyotes' 5-3 victory over San Jose. Korpikoski's decisive tally came 8 minutes into the third...

In many countries, journalists who investigate political corruption or major crime figures get thrown into prison, gunned down or kidnapped -- never to be heard from again.In the United States,...

One of the great challenges that violence presents to a community is that until it happens to you, it remains an abstraction. But when it happens to you, it is often too late. There is very little...

OAKLAND -- By March 2008, after two years of dieting and exercise, Shyanne Reese had shed a whopping 101 pounds from her 5-foot-10 frame and was feeling better than ever. Nine months later, those...