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San Francisco fire investigators on Wednesday were looking into whether welding work was to blame for a massive blaze that barreled through an apartment building construction site, threatening nearby buildings, prompting evacuations and forcing officials to call in about half the city's on-duty firefighters to prevent its spread.

A member of a Norteno-affiliated street gang pleaded guilty in Thursday to four counts of attempted murder in connection with a 2010 triple-fatal shooting in South San Francisco that targeted a group of men perceived to be rival gang members.

A San Pablo man and a Pacifica man were arrested by San Francisco police last week after investigators uncovered a horde of over 600 explosives that "could have leveled their homes and damaged surrounding neighborhoods," authorities said.

The United States Mint in San Francisco will soon produce an unusual coin in honor of the nation's favorite pastime.

A SWAT team has responded to a scene where a man was wounded in a shooting early Thursday morning, police said.

In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, Prue Draper, left, of the Cotati Historical Society, and Louise Santero, a longtime Cotati resident, stand next to an extremely rare albino chimero redwood tree near a railroad track in Cotati, Calif.

The man charged with assault on a San Francisco police officer shot in the Mission District made his first appearance Wednesday in Superior Court.

The New York City fire department says it has received a report of an explosion and building collapse in East Harlem.

A Pacheco man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to leading South San Francisco police on a chase through city streets then trying to carjack motorists waiting on the offramp.

The FBI office in San Francisco said the agency received "credible intelligence" that Daniel Andreas San Diego might be on the state's Big Island.

A judge has ordered a 28-year-old Kansas man to stand trial in the deaths of three adults and an 18-month-old child.

The Midwest and the Eastern Seaboard are bracing for another blast of below-normal temperatures and heavy snowfall after a few days of temperatures slightly above normal for this time of year.

Fire crews worked to control a five-alarm blaze that broke out Tuesday at an apartment building under construction near AT&T Park in San Francisco.

A man was assaulted and burglarized by three men in South San Francisco Sunday and police need help identifying two of the assailants, according to the South San Francisco Police Department.

The Prague-based Pavel Haas Quartet is named for the Czech composer who had been consigned to the Terezin transit point concentration camp by the Nazis before he was transferred to Auschwitz, where he died shortly before the end of the Second World War.

The National Security Agency was blocked by a judge from carrying out plans on Tuesday to begin destroying phone records collected for surveillance after a privacy group argued they are relevant to lawsuits claiming the practice is unconstitutional.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered a prebuttal Monday to the Democrats' all-night talk session, calling the Democrats' climate change position "cruel" because he believes it negatively impacts workers in the coal industry.