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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 2.9 struck two miles east-southeast of San Ramon about 8:10 p.m. Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was followed by an aftershock of 2.8 magnitude at 8:21 p.m. Article continues below this ad. The first quake was measured at a depth of...

Yesterday turned violent in San Francisco's Mission District, where a stabbing near the 16th Street Mission BART station sent three people to the hospital, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. The department said it received a call at about 5 PM for the 3030 block of 16th Street, and that two of the...

Shawn Naputi faced 56 felony theft charges for more than 80 crimes from October 2023 to May 2025; arrested 16 times since 2021 for violent crimes, multiple counts of theft. According to the Sonoma County Office of the District Attorney, on May 8, 2024, Shawn Andre Naputi walked into the Friedman’s Home Improvement...

The victim was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and the shooter fled before officers arrived, San Jose police said.

Two people suffered life-threatening injuries and a suspect has been arrested in connection with an apparent stabbing in San Francisco on Saturday evening, police said.

As all good Bay Area history nerds know, Alcatraz Prison closed in 1963, less than a year after Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin escaped from the island, never to be seen again. What is less well known is that there were serious calls to shut down the prison all the way back in 1939, just five years after it...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Weir, the guitarist and singer who as an essential member of the Grateful Dead helped found the sound of the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s and kept it alive through decades of endless tours and marathon jams, has died. He was 78. Weir’s death was announced Saturday in a statement on...

A judge scolded Waymo during an administrative rules proceeding after the company refused to disclose how many of its robotaxis had stalled during a power outage in San Francisco.

A stabbing in San Francisco's Mission district sent three to a hospital, and two are in critical condition, according to the San Francisco Fire Department.

Police responded to reports of multiple stab victims at 16th and Mission in San Francisco, right next to the BART station on Saturday. A suspect has been arrested.