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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.

In this March 8, 2012, file photo, Robert Maegerle, left, walks out of a federal courthouse with attorney Jerome Froelich Jr. in San Francisco.

Nic Offer, lead singer of Sacramento dance punk act !!! , doesn't feel like the mixed reviews for his band's latest album “Thriller” were fair as critics may have taken the album name a bit too literal.

A preliminary hearing began in San Francisco on Wednesday for a husband and wife accused of running a brothel in the Sunset District.

Five California men who say they came under police scrutiny for innocent behavior sued the Obama administration Thursday over an information-sharing program designed by the federal government to help flag potential terrorist activity in the wake of the Sept.

Two brothers arrested Tuesday in connection with separate fatal shootings in San Francisco on Monday morning are being held without bail, according to a chief sheriff's deputy.

The rebooting of "Godzilla" and "Planet of the Apes" makes San Francisco look like the new Tokyo or New York ... in terms of being destroyed on film.

Sarah Benary and her husband, Oron Benary, make mead, an alcoholic beverage made from honey, in the Bayview in San Francisco.

Wanted: Couple to run Victorian B&B on an island in the strait that separates San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay.

"Lost Sirens" was the influential synth-pop band's ninth studio outing -- and its first since 2005's "Waiting for the Sirens' Call."

In a vote that should prompt other California policymakers to act, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance insisting that people who suffer from severe mental illness receive care, rather than leave them to languish on the streets.

Later this evening, July 9, the San Francisco AIDS service organization Magnet celebrates their 11th Anniversary.

Four San Francisco men have been arrested for allegedly defrauding the state food stamp program of more than $480,000, authorities said.