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Susan Shargel, an insurance broker in San Francisco, says she's seeing health insurance plans offering fewer options for doctors and hospitals.

Kitty Morgan, an editor with deep experience in developing lifestyle content, is joining the San Francisco Chronicle as Assistant Managing Editor - Lifestyle Content Director.

Demand for T-shirts made by the San Francisco police chief's son in honor of "Batkid" and his historic day fighting crime in San Francisco last month have reached epic proportions, the chief said today.

How a quirky, best-selling Northwest restaurant guide had a 34-year run, spawned a leading book publishing company, and quietly faded away.

KCBS radio "Foodie Chap" and KPIX 5 television "Eye On The Bay" host Liam Mayclem introduces us to the culinary stars behind the food and wine loved by so many in the Bay Area.

The Shining: Forwards and Backwards is exactly what it sounds like: a screening of The Shining with a reverse projection of The Shining screened on top.

Merrill Newman, center, walks beside his wife Lee, left, and his son Jeffrey after arriving at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013.

The New Zealand singer-songwriter, who recently learned that she'd been nominated for four Grammy Awards, delivered nothing less than a breathtaking performance during the second night of Bay Area alternative-rock radio station Live 105's annual holiday shindig at Oracle Arena in Oakland.

Authorities have arrested a man suspected of grabbing two cats from a homeless woman and tossing them to their deaths in the San Francisco Bay.

Steve Johnson shows you how to use the variable Stroke Width tool in Adobe Illustrator CS5 as explained in his book, Adobe Illustrator CS5 on Demand.

Dear Deborrah : I am a 30 year old black male who recently moved to the Bay Area.

The mural artist Juana Alicia said she and her friends have undertaken a fund-raising campaign to restore a Mission Street mural from 1988 that survived until October when a vandal smeared it with paint and tagged it with the word "Toy."

Of all Mission's graffiti, none likely appear with as much ubiquity than the stencils of a wheeled suitcase inscribed with the words, "Tenants Here Forced Out."

Merrill Newman, left, walks beside his wife Lee and son Jeffrey after arriving at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday.

Pyro and Sunkiss have been stuck in cargo at the Bogota Airport with little or no food.

Lisamaria Martinez makes her way into the Union City BART station Nov. 18, 2013, in Union City.

A pedestrian critically injured in a hit-and-run on Valencia Street in San Francisco early Thursday morning died later that day, according to the medical examiner's office.

Four homeless people have died of hypothermia in the San Francisco Bay Area since last week, authorities said, highlighting the danger to people without shelter as the region is gripped by freezing temperatures.

A man suspected of throwing two cats into San Francisco Bay last week was arrested Friday afternoon, a San Francisco Animal Care and Control spokeswoman said.

A Sacramento man was arrested in Antioch Friday morning in connection with the fatal shooting of a 30-year-old man in San Francisco's Bayview District in June, police said.