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The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra has released a new recording , nicely timed to coincide with the closing concert of its current season on Sunday, May 19, at Davies Symphony Hall.

They don't enjoy the task and they wish they didn't have to do it, but San Mateo County sheriff's deputies form a de-facto anti-suicide squad as they patrol the Caltrain commuter tracks - and on Thursday they saved another life.

Long confined to door-to-door delivery circuits, fresh-pressed juice is graduating to permanent retail locations across San Francisco.

Quick: Aside from the Mission, name some major commercial strips in San Francisco where La Boulange has not opened an outpost yet.

A bacon restaurant closes in San Francisco because the neighbors could not stand the smell.

Seven San Francisco activists from the squatted social center called the SF Commune, were brutally attacked by police and arrested Thursday evening after being invited into the SF State University dorms by students there.

Last month's international ranking of the best biking cities in the country didn't include a single United States city.

A disease is working its way through palm trees and it is leaving many for dead.

Up a shaft and onto a roof. Atop a train. Alongside a freeway. Over barbed wire.

Larkin Street Youth Services does great and important social work with homeless youth in San Francisco, for which it receives generous support from city taxpayers, as well as federal grants.

There's a certain euphoria that comes with Thursday morning. It's all about anticipation: with the bulk of the week lalready handled, the mind begins to wander towards the leisure potential of Friday and Saturday.

Locations include Center for Sex and Culture, 1349 Mission St, San Francisco; Faithful Fools, 234 Hyde St, San Francisco; Hospitality House, 290 Turk St., San Francisco; Cal PEP, 2811 Adeline St., Oakland, St.

It's no secret that cell phone thefts - especially robberies - are on the rise in San Francisco.

After a six-hour manhunt that began in the unincorporated part of San Jose, federal marshals on Wednesday night captured a mentally ill "person of interest" following the brazen and deadly stabbing of a 40-year-old woman and a 1-year-old child.

Q Sunday in San Francisco could be a gigantic tie-up. We have Bay to Breakers, the Amgen Tour bicycle race and the Alcatraz swim.

Heavy delays and disruptions impacted the entire Caltrain line for the morning commute, after a train fatally struck a pedestrian in South San Francisco this morning.

Editor's note: This column is part of Mission Local's series of conversations with Supervisor David Campos, addressing issues and events in the Mission and the city of San Francisco.

A famous East Coast mafia hitman during the deadliest mob wars of the 1960's became the first member of the witness protection program when he moved to the Bay Area.

The title of the final concert in the twentieth anniversary season of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble is Cello Squared! It will offer three performances that will feature the two LCCE cellists, Tanya Tomkins and Leighton Fong.

Residents reported hearing a man screaming near the intersection of Innes Avenue and Arelious Walker Drive at 1:45 a.m., said Officer Gordon Shyy , a police spokesman.