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In an emotionally charged courtroom that heard from a father who said his daughter no longer hugs him and a mother who said she did the best she could in raising her boys, a Contra Costa judge on Friday sentenced West County half-brothers to life in prison for the kidnap and brutal rape of an East Bay woman on Valentine's Day 2010.

As the West Bank erupted today in a "day of rage" against Israel's ongoing invasion of Gaza and its lopsided death toll during 18 days of combat with Palestinians, anti-war activists in the Bay Area have been holding daily protests outside the Israeli consulate in downtown San Francisco and preparing for what they hope will be a big demonstration ... (more)

At the White House Innovation for Disaster Response and Recovery Initiative Demo Day on Tuesday, agency officials will unveil their City72 Toolkit , a guide for other cities and jurisdictions to riff off the city's SF72 system for disaster preparedness.

Page 5 of the superseding indictment shows the charges against Yee. The full document is at the bottom of the article.

A woman died early Friday after a smoky fire broke out inside her clutter San Francisco apartments, firefighters and neighbors told KTVU.

Police announced an arrest in the shooting death of a man killed during a bloody Fourth of July weekend in the city's Bayview District.

Firefighters responded to a fire at a high-rise building near the San Francisco Golf Club Friday morning that's left at least one injured, a San Francisco fire dispatcher said.

The Embarcadero BART station is getting a thorough cleaning this week, which is great until you see just how disgusting they were all along. In other words, that's not a paint job you're seeing there.

SocketSite is reporting that San Francisco's goal of building a little more than 31,000 housing units between 2007 and 2014 is not going to be achieved.

In regards to the prison censorship issue, I am just chiming in to let it be known that it isn't a "nudity" thing ; it's a Black-Latino thing, period! Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi talks with prisoners in the seventh floor jail above his office in the Hall of Justice in downtown San Francisco.

A former FBI employee and his wife pleaded guilty to bank fraud Thursday, with the husband further admitting that he had lied to the agency to maintain a top-level security clearance, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

A former associate professor at San Francisco State University's College of Business was arrested late Wednesday night and charged with taking photos of students from San Francisco universities, according the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and college officials.

Fifty Julys ago, up the road near San Francisco, in the unfortunately named Cow Palace, the Republican National Convention gave its presidential nomination to Arizona senator Barry Goldwater, who knew he would lose: Americans were not going to have a third president in 14 months.

Bullets flying through windows and a double hit-and-run resulted in the injuries of four people on Tuesday in the Bayview, one of whom is an 80-year-old woman.

Among the nurses in the AIDS ward at San Francisco General Hospital during the epidemic's nadir in the denial days of the 1980s, Steve K. stood out. "People always asked me how I stayed so calm, why nothing bothered me," he said Tuesday. The answer: he was stoned the whole time during his 35-year-long daily marijuana habit.

I need to develop a system whereby if anyone in Northern California is even thinking of establishing a jazz venue, that information is immediately transmitted to me via some form of ESP or Vulcan mind meld or something.

Looking for a way to unwind? Check out the Mandarin Oriental's new "Spa Happy Hour" offering.

San Francisco's appetite for underground dinners seems to be insatiable. Five-year-old Lazy Bear has become one of Yelp's highest-rated restaurants and is preparing to open a permanent restaurant in the Mission .

Police are searching for a pair of women they say attacked an ex-boyfriend of one of them and then robbed him.