Wednesday March 17, 2010 Updated 2:56 PM PDT
A state appeals court says a 15-year-old boy whose Web site was flooded with anti-gay slurs and threats can sue a schoolmate who admitted posting a menacing message but described it as a joke.
BART officials are investigating what caused a year-old part that helps connect train cars to snap suddenly Tuesday morning, causing the nine-car train to come apart before stopping at the west edge of the Transbay Tube, , snarling the commute.
Matier & Ross: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom 's idea of holding a special election to name his successor if he's elected lieutenant governor appears to be DOA.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Tuesday that Central Valley farmers will will receive 25 percent of the water they were hoping to get. That's better than the 5 percent the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation was planning to give them before a series of winter storms drenched the state.

Two San Francisco motorcycle police officers collided this afternoon during a motorcade training exercise and were taken to the...
Chronicle 3.17.10 2:28 PM
An outage knocked out power to the lights on the Bay Bridge's western span and parts of San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood...
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Seven hundred eighty-one feet never seemed so tall. That's the elevation of the highest peak along Acalanes Ridge in central Contra...
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Will bottled water, turkey sandwiches and celebrity gossip magazines help rescue San Francisco from its budget blues? Well, they can't...
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A judge has awarded a San Francisco attorney $7,000 in damages in a rare trial under California's anti-spam law - $1,000 for each...
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Four leaders in California's Legislature won a prestigious political award Tuesday for working across party lines last year to solve...
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Orange County - Relatives and friends of four women who have been missing since the 1970s told investigators they recognized their...
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