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Three supposed members of the Bay Riders, a motorcycle club that police say is an affiliate of the Hells Angels, have been charged with assault and gang enhancements after one allegedly stabbed a victim during a brawl on Broadway Street in December.

With all the screening technology at U.S. airports, the last line of defense is still the human hand: the pat-down search.

San Jose, SF See 1st Bay Area Babies Born In '10 Share + Comments Jan 1, 2010 11:00 am US/Pacific San Jose, SF See 1st Bay Area Babies Born In '10 SAN FRANCISCO A baby boy born at a San Jose hospital this morning may have edged out a girl born in San Francisco as the first baby born in the Bay Area in 2010.

An equipment problem on the BART tracks between the 16th Street Mission and 24th Street Mission stations in San Francisco briefly caused the closure of those two stations and disrupted service for the agency's trains in the area, a dispatcher said.

Two people died in separate collisions with Northern California commuter trains Thursday, making 2009 the deadliest year for Caltrain since 1995.

Tragic shootings, cracked eyebars, teen suicides, light-rail crashes and other problems have left many Bay Area transportation agencies eager to be done with 2009, a year one official called the most challenging in decades.

San Francisco police arrested a Concord man on Christmas Day, and charged him with sexually assaulting a prostitute and impersonating a police officer.

For the Bay Area, it was a year of terrible crimes, transportation woes, shivering Spare the Air days , uneven distribution of federal stimulus money and Twittering food carts.

Cooley says he's pretty well along in the paper worked required for filing as a candidate, but he won't make the final decision or a formal announcement until the second week in January.

Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer -- The San Francisco Chronicle , December 31, 2009 Thursday FINAL Edition Trans fat will become oil non grata in California restaurants on New Year's Day, when the state becomes the first in the country to ban the use of the artery-clogging, partially hydrogenated vegetable substance.

Jessie Shanware gets patted down by a an agent at the security gate at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco.

More than 1,600 people have been arrested in the Bay Area for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs in the first 12 days of a regional anti-DUI crackdown.

Mayor Gavin Newsom said homicides in the city have dropped nearly 54 percent, from 98 in 2008 to 45 so far this year.

More than 1,600 people have been arrested in the Bay Area for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs in the first 12 days of a regional anti-DUI crackdown.

Final Cut Studio, Adobe and Avid editors and digital filmmakers from around the world will gather together for the Ninth Annual San Francisco SuperMeet, to be held on Friday, February 5, 2010 at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA.

A 36-year-old man was arrested Wednesday morning after he allegedly armed himself with a shotgun, threatened several family members and barricaded himself inside his San Francisco home, police said.

Belva Davis talks with her director as she goes through a rehearsal for her show "This Week in Northern California" at the KQED studios in San Francisco, Calif.

Nearly 1,700 sea lions have disappeared within weeks after living for nearly two decades at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, authorities said.

Want Fries with That? A solid example of fast food, krinkle cuts that are surprisingly good .

Bay Area drivers, don't drink and ... gargle? Condemning a legal system that allowed two Peninsula residents to rack up nine DUIs each, a Bay Area legislator today will announce a bill that would give California judges the power to permanently revoke licenses of drunken drivers after three convictions.