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As the pace of existing home purchases in U.S. picks up and the latest Case-Shiller Index twenty-city composite ticks up, a plugged-in tipster points us in the direction of a rather sobering animation of the rising unemployment wave spreading across our country.

Queen: A recent column focused on disabled parking spaces and what to do when a seemingly able-bodied person parks in a disabled parking spot.

Speier , who represents California's 12th District which includes parts of San Francisco and San Mateo counties, did not make a complete ass of herself -- and in this context, that's a remarkable achievement.

Crowdsourcing Bike Path Planning People don't always go where you think they will.

Listen to the report In California, just 10.6 percent of board seats and executive positions of top corporations are held by women.

Screenshot of Cycle Tracks. This morning I learned about a new iPhone app called Cycle Tracks .

Share + Nov 16, 2009 2:56 pm US/Pacific SAN FRANCISCO Police have determined that a man who was arrested for stabbing a woman over the weekend is not the man who stabbed 11-year-old Hatim Mansori on a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus in September.

In an apparent attempt to head off Republican criticism of its internal inquiry into a secret audio taping controversy, Attorney General Jerry Brown has asked the Alameda County District Attorney's office to look into the matter.

State-ordered furloughs ordered at the California state medical board have resulted in a logjam of physician license applications, physicians say.

Ricoh Americas Corporation has announced that the Ricoh Technology Portal in San Francisco and Ricoh sales offices in Santa Clara and Contra Costa Counties received green certification through the Bay Area Green Business Program.

New advanced stop bars have been striped on Market Street between 10th Street and 5th Street.

Attorney General Jerry Brown's office has sparked debate about its interpretation of state privacy laws after it determined that a spokesman had not done anything illegal by secretly taping conversations with news reporters.

Michael Jackson's father Joe Jackson has launched a court bid for a share of the King of Pop's estate.

Joe Jackson is accused of running a campaign of terror against a former associate who is trying to prove Michael Jackson had an illegitimate son.

A research group that promotes affordable housing has unveiled a new way of calculating what many already know: Bay Area residents pay a high price for living where they do.

More than 20,000 people are expected to attend an annual gay pride festival and parade this weekend in Palm Springs.

CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY 15TH ANNUAL SALE OF SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA NATIVE PLANTS, NOVEMBER 5, THURSDAY, 7.30 p.m. San Francisco County Fair Bldg, 9th Avenue & Lincoln Way, Golden Gate Park.

SUMMARY: A large proportion of HIV positive former prisoners take their antiretroviral therapy irregularly after they are released from incarceration, thereby raising the risk of treatment failure and disease progression, according to a study in the September 22, 2009 issue of the open-access online journal PLoS One .

San Jose police Thursday announced the arrest of a suspect they described as one of the most prolific graffiti artists in the Bay Area.