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When the federal shutdown paused SNAP payments this November, Sandra M., 53, rushed downtown to San Francisco’s Al Pastor Papi to get free burritos for her family. Keeping her place in line was a struggle. The Mexican restaurant regularly sees a busy lunch rush, but its staff wasn’t prepared for the surge of people...

A former San Francisco city official admitted guilt on Thursday to orchestrating a massive theft of taxpayer money, confessing to embezzling more than $600,000 from the city’s workers’ compensation division and facilitating a kickback scheme involving other public employees. Stanley Ellicott, the former assistant...

Tenderloin beat cops turned a brief chase into a potentially life-saving gun grab this week, disarming an armed robbery suspect after a foot pursuit and struggle, according to San Francisco police. Officers discovered a pistol tucked into the suspect’s waistband during the encounter, the department said yesterday,...

A 25-year-old man was sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison for killing a 19-year-old man during an attempted robbery in San Francisco’s Portola district in 2020, prosecutors said.

At 92 years old, Bill Baker has lived a long life — but he often speaks only about a small portion of it from more than 70 years ago. “I'm good at answering questions,” he said. “That's what I do, and I can answer questions all day long.” For more than 10 years now, that’s been his main occupation, but he was in a...

U.S. prosecutors charged a man with assaulting an ICE officer, marking at least the second criminal case to stem from clashes between protesters and federal agents in San Francisco this summer.

It’s 7 a.m. on a Friday morning and Carolina Avelar is behind the wheel of her Chevy Volt, squinting through the glare of early light. Avelar, 27, is on lookout in Richmond’s busiest commercial streets for signs of Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity. She’s done the weekday morning shift for months.

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A homeless man who attacked a Berkeley High student Wednesday for no reason has been charged with felony assault and child abuse, according to court records and police. Suspect Denarian Shipp had already been arrested by BART police that day on suspicion of battery, resulting from a fight on a BART train. He was...

Pfc. Tanner F. Rubio, a 21-year-old Marine from Dixon in Northern California, died Wednesday in a tactical vehicle mishap during training at Camp Pendleton.