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A suspect led police on an early-morning car chase through downtown San Francisco Wednesday, hitting multiple vehicles and driving the wrong way down a one-way street before being tackled and detained by a firefighter near City Hall, police said.

The stories are tantalizing but anonymous. Whisper officials told ABC News that they've vetted accounts of several people who said they have had sex with an Uber or Lyft driver, and of drivers who said they had sex with customers.

Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow entered the plea to a newly filed indictment that includes all the same money laundering and related charges as the previous one.

The measure that will be put before San Francisco voters would raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour by July of 2018.

CHICO >> Saying it was better to have the information, Chico's Airport Commission has asked for the financial impact of United Airlines pulling out of Chico.

In one of their craziest scouting experiences, the Minnesota Twins have reached a deal with a 24-year-old pitcher who has thrown 100 mile per hour fastballs in a California summer league but has never been drafted.

These aren't small meals. Between his wife, six daughters, friends, neighbors and relatives, there are often 40 people dining.

The tan, hatch-marked area shows the alternative route for the Palmdale to Burbank portion of the California High-Speed rail project through the San Gabriel Mountains.

The U.S. attorney in San Francisco announced the obstruction of justice charge and 27 related counts, which are in a new indictment charging the utility with felonies.

In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, a massive fire following a pipeline explosion roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif.

Dozens of people covered in blood and grime were led by soldiers and cops through the Russian Hill neighborhood on Tuesday. They had been staggered by a massive earthquake, but were framed by the beauty of Alcatraz and the bay in the distance.

Authorities have tracked down and arrested former Lake Oswego High School cheerleader Julia Lynn Haner, who fled house arrest in June while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Taxi, van, bicycle. Police closed Post St between Jones&Taylor. pic.twitter.com/k7kkYrmZ7E The suspect, Anthony Wisner, 25, tried to escape on a Muni bus but was taken into custody after he collision at Post and Jones streets, which injured a bicyclist, a pedestrian and four other people, including the suspect, police said.

A Northern California political consultant charged with bribery, racketeering and other counts in a sweeping indictment that also names a state senator and an alleged gang leader has pleaded not guilty.

San Francisco is known for many things - no-makeup makeup , normcore , less-than-aggressive dating culture , for example - but "sexiness"? That's debatable.

Zaznu. Remember this name. One of the fastest growing companies in Brasil, which even landed an article in the prestigious Exame magazine in Brazil , Zaznu was the first in the ridesharing market in Rio de Janeiro , transforming forever the riding habits of its resident.

Working to shed the title of San Francisco's Top Buzzkill, Supervisor Scott Wiener has taken a moment out of his normally busy schedule outlawing public nudity and crusading to restrict the public's use of city parks to remind us that, hey kids!, he's still hip to the needs/passions of the youth vote.

San Francisco-based singer, songwriter and activist Linda Ronstadt and Oakland-based writer Maxine Hong Kingston received the 2013 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama Monday White House officials said.

The head of San Francisco's Erotic Service Providers Union has been a sex worker for 24 years - and "I hope to be doing it for another 24," says Maxine Doogan.