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Google has come under fire in the past year for everything from privacy policies to censorship.

A Piedmont man who is a trained optician was arrested Tuesday for allegedly wounding an off-duty federal officer assigned to San Francisco International Airport in a shooting outside the officer's home in Newark.

San Francisco police are looking for a suspect in a Tuesday afternoon bank robbery in the city's Mission District.

The California Supreme Court this week considered crucial legal issues that are likely to shape two violent Bay Area criminal cases, one a pending San Mateo County murder trial in the slaying of a 15-year-old student.

A look at reaction to the ruling by a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel declaring California's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional: - "When Proposition 8 doesn't allow parents like mine to marry, it isn't just defining their love as taboo or wrong.

A 63-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing another man at a homeless shelter in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood on Monday evening, police said Tuesday.

Domestic violence charges against San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi have prompted an advocacy group for domestic violence victims to raise money for a billboard that would highlight the issue.

Every year, San Francisco firefighters respond to emergency calls from a street alarm box system that was in use when horses still pulled the engines.

A three-judge panel with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule Tuesday on whether California's same-sex marriage ban violates the Constitution.

Lelia Boroughs, 84, wasn't known to many. At least not outside her apartment building in San Francisco's lower Pacific Heights.

Mayor Ed Lee and former Mayor Willie Brown are accused of corruption in a case that Matt Gonzalez is working on.

Although Bay Area Japanese noodle connoisseurs have long insisted you need to go to the South Bay for great ramen, the popular comfort food is beginning to develop a legion of followers here in San Francisco.

The Philadelphia-based purveyor of skinny jeans has several models posing in the company's new line of clothing across San Francisco.

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The public-policy group SPUR has issued an eye-opening report about the vulnerability of San Francisco's housing stock to a major earthquake.

Travelers Maria Poole, right, and Lindsey Shepard, practice yoga at San Francisco International Airport's new Yoga Room.

Tucker and Marks Design, tuckerandmarks.com Suzanne Tucker designed the capacious living room of the 2007 Decorator Showcase House - an Italian Renaissance-style manse in Pacific Heights - with fictitious clients in mind: a successful couple with a stockpile of furnishings both inherited and collected .

It takes gumption to give yourself the new title Director of Hope. What do you do, call San Franciscans all day long telling them their kid just might win the school lottery, they might one day win the condo conversion lottery and that - if those longshots fail - they could always win the actual lottery? Well, no.

There's a hidden corner of the City by the Bay where rusted cranes used to build WWII battleships loom over dilapidated artist studios, where working-class fishermen bob up against first-class ocean liners docked for repair.

People in the Bay Area tend to think country music sucks. And the truth is, a lot of it does - especially the kind that the major labels in Nashville have been sending our way for years, all big hair and slick chords, easy cliches and smug flag-waving. The only thing that makes it different from any of the other dross on the pop charts is the ... (more)