Phillip and Nancy Garrido each pleaded guilty Thursday to the kidnap and long sexual enslavement of Jaycee Dugard, avoiding a trial that would have forced Dugard to take the witness stand and recollect the 18 years she…











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California’s parole board doesn’t find convicted murderers suitable for release very often. And when the board granted parole in recent years, the inmate usually found the governor waiting to bar the door. But not Gov….











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When he took over the San Francisco mayor’s job in January, Ed Lee faced a number of issues on his to-do list. Among them: pick a police chief, balance the budget and rein in skyrocketing pension costs. He made strides…











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A teenage girl who said she was accosted by an older man on a Muni bus this afternoon fought him off with pepper spray but also spritzed two other passengers and the driver with the liquid irritant, San Francisco…











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Park Ranger Dave Flores was riding shotgun in a green East Bay Regional Park District truck in the Oakland hills overlooking the bay Friday morning when something caught his eye – sunlight reflecting on metal, some 200…











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Projected annual health care costs of nearly $500 million to cover San Francisco’s employees and retirees this year prompted a Board of Supervisors committee Thursday to take a hard look at hospital pricing and…











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The Obama administration wants a federal appeals court to maintain the ban on openly gay service members until the Pentagon is ready for them, probably by the end of the year, and to reject a demand for an immediate…











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Capt. Greg Suhr, a 30-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department whose roller-coaster career has included command of two of the city’s toughest station houses and an indictment for allegedly conspiring to…











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Police Capt. Greg Suhr turned San Francisco’s Bayview Station into a place where youths went to go to work, not to jail. “We had 12 to 15 kids who wouldn’t have been working last summer if it wasn’t for the captain,”…











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Late-night or round-the-clock BART service, an idea that’s been briefly tested over the years but never adopted, could get a six-month tryout beginning this fall. Under a demonstration project that will be presented to…











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