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Factors including a lack of exercise, smoking and a lack of education can all contribute to the disease, and reducing the risk from these could prevent some nine million cases by 2050, the research published in The Lancet Neurology today suggests.

We spent several hours with "Yellow Submarine" animator Ron Campbelll July 11 at Antiquities of California in San Francisco on beautiful Pier 39. We had a great time discussing when he worked on the Beatles cartoon series and the movies.

With the bankruptcy and closure of the San Jose Rep, San Jose's cultural and entertainment meccas downtown continue to face difficult times.

In this photo taken Friday, July 11, 2014, Elk Grove Unified School District teacher Michael Jones and his former student Kandance Stagner, a foster child, walk around Laguna Creek High School, where Stagner recently graduated from, in Elk Grove, Calif.

Resting places for the dead in San Francisco turned out to be not that restful. From the city's beginning, elected officials struggled with problems caused by cemeteries in the wrong places.

An unidentified woman was shot early this morning while inside her vehicle at 18th and Florida streets, CBS San Francisco reports.

A man locked up for 18 years after being wrongfully convicted in a double-murder case is poised to get $3.5 million from San Francisco.

Bay Area commuter ferries will likely be expanding in the coming years with Richmond a likely candidate as the next place to offer service to San Francisco.

Maureen and Steve's San Francisco wedding truly captured the essence of the city.

A wise philosopher once said, "Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."

Certain flour-dusted circles have been known* to build altars to Tartine Bakery's Chad Robertson.

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Sheriff's Deputy Delray Shelton said the county worker, 29-year-old Steven Haywood, was driving three inmates from a drug treatment program in San Francisco to the Merced jail on Wednesday and let the 31-year-old inmate out.

Election fraud charges were filed today against a man who worked on the campaign of a San Francisco Board of Supervisors candidate in 2012, the district attorney's office said.

Federico Buenrostro Jr., the former chief executive of California Public Employees' Retirement System, entered his plea in San Francisco federal court.

A mobile application company that allows motorists to auction off parking spots for money has been "temporarily disabled" in San Francisco following a June cease-and-desist order by the city attorney, the company blogged Thursday.

In San Francisco, where tensions between established artist communities and Silicon Valley continue to rise, Luke Groesbeck, a former tech worker and the founder of the fledgling public art organization Art City , wants to help his hometown reinvest in the former.

A man suffered severe burns in a one-alarm fire at an apartment unit in unincorporated San Leandro Friday morning, according to the Alameda County Fire Department.

San Francisco-based bank's second-quarter profit up 3 percent, helped by higher deposit balances and a drop in loans that went bad.

The "world's best" 10 cities, according to Travel+Leisure readers , include only two from the United States-and San Francisco isn't one of them.