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Two children injured in school bus crash Two children injured in school bus crash Two children were taken to the hospital with minor injuries Tuesday morning after their school bus was involved in a collision … More »Two children injured in school bus crash

Two children to hospital in bus wreck Two children were taken to the hospital with minor injuries after their small school bus was involved collision near San Leandro Tuesday morning, authorities said. … More »Two children to hospital in bus wreck

Car fire slows traffic at Caldecott Tunnel Car fire slows traffic at Caldecott Tunnel The wreck was first reported at 8:17 a.m. but California Highway Patrol officers did not issue an alert closing the … More »Car fire slows traffic at Caldecott Tunnel

Five people have been arrested in the murder of a man who died after he and a woman were found bound and gagged on a San Francisco street, police said. More »5 Arrested In Murder Of Man Found Bound And Gagged On SF Street

A crash involving two cars and a school bus near San Leandro Tuesday morning injured three people, including two teenage students, according to the California Highway Patrol. More »3 Injured In San Leandro School Bus Crash

Two audits are raising questions about nearly $200,000 in employee expenses at one of the nation's largest ports, which was recently embroiled in a strip club spending scandal. More »Audits Find More Questionable Spending At Port Of Oakland

The long-awaited plan to transform a section of Jefferson Street into a pedestrian-friendly thoroughfare is expected to begin next month. A key segment of Fisherman’s Wharf, Jefferson Street attracts 40,000 … More »Tourist-friendly Wharf street makeover to begin soon

Homicide investigators are hunting for clues after an unidentified man and woman were mysteriously left bound and gagged on a San Francisco street Sunday night. About 8:30 p.m. Sunday, police said, a man … More »S.F. police search for clues after pair left bound, gagged in street

A man was struck and killed by a truck on Market Street on Monday afternoon. The collision was reported about 2:30 p.m. at Market and Beale streets, police spokesman Officer Carlos Manfredi said. The truck … More »Pedestrian hit, killed by truck in S.F.

Yahoo is spiffing up and expanding its email service in an attempt to regain some of the ground lost to Gmail. More »Yahoo revamps email in bid to catch Gmail

Some well-known male chefs are getting behind a New Jersey girl's call for Hasbro to make a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven. More »Top chefs join call for gender-neutral Easy-Bake

Five people have been arrested in the case of a man and woman found bound and gagged in the middle of a San Francisco street. More »5 arrested in case of pair found bound, gagged

It's finally Halloweentime! (Though Walgreens would have you believe that season started in August.) Hollywood prepares appropriately with a few spookier picks (for kids, Frankenweenie , reviewed below; … More »Zombie dogs! Neeson! Southern-fried jail tales! And more, in this week's new movies

After voters approved Prop. 13 in 1978, capping property taxes for landowners, we had to sit down in the Legislature and figure out how to implement it. One of the biggest questions was how and when properties … More »Willie Brown is so full of shit on Prop. 13

Mayor Ed Lee seems to think that the controversy over Housing Authority Director Henry Alvarez is just going to blow over, but he's wrong. There's too much here. And it's not just about the lawsuits employees … More »The Housing Authority mess

A Minor Cycle: Five Little Plays in One Starry Night.: A collaboration between playwright Greg Giovanni and Theater of Yugen presenting five short plays influenced by classical Japanese dramatic forms. … More »Now Playing

Artists' Television Access. OpenScreening: The only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Thu., Dec. 6, 8 p.m. $5. A Non Sequitur Dog From Hell: Works by SFAI Film Class Projects. Refreshments … More »Arthouse Movie Listings December 5-11, 2012

It's not an insult to the work of Swiss novelist/memoirist/archaeologist Annemarie Schwarzenbach that readers, in the decades since her death in 1942, have found her writing not quite as interesting as … More »Travel Channeling: December Books Search for the Self

Intel launched a data-center chip using low-power technology found in smartphones, stepping up competition in the nascent microserver market and winning a nod from Facebook. More »Facebook lines up behind Intel on new, low-power server chips

Cindy Chavez will hand off leadership of the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council to chief of staff Ben Field, while continuing to lead the affiliated think tank Working Partnerships USA. More »Cindy Chavez steps aside as Labor Council leader

Are more red-light cameras needed in Contra Costa County? More »Roadshow: Angst on I-680 express lanes, where drivers illegally cross double white lines

What were those lights floating over the Mission District early Sunday? They're unidentified, which means... Photo Credit: cris_ruiz91/Instagram More »UFOs Sighted Over SF's Mission District

A dispute over crab prices that has stifled the harvesting and sale of Dungeness Crab for more than a week has reportedly neared a close. Photo Credit: Joe Rosato Jr. More »Crab Price Dispute Nearing a Close

Some of the year’s highest tides will hit California shorelines this week. Photo Credit: Getty Images/David McNew More »High "King" Tides to Slam Coast

North Coast fishermen are heading back out to sea Wednesday to resume crab fishing after buyers agreed to increase the price to $3 a pound. Fresh local crab should be back in stores by Thursday, said Bodega … More »North Coast crab fishermen headed back to work as price dispute ends

Medical providers running afoul of rules prohibiting sales in commercial areas More »Berkeley targets third marijuana outlet

Chief Craig Steckler, 68, has worked in law enforcement for 45 years. His last day as chief is scheduled Dec. 30. He will be replaced by Capt. Richard Lucero, who has been appointed interim police chi … More »Fremont police chief to retire after 20 years on the job