When Montrail Brackens was finally allowed outside, guards at San Francisco County Jail No. 3 led him and several other inmates into small enclosures that reminded Brackens of dog kennels. It was late ...

If a fight breaks out in a baseball clubhouse, outsiders don’t need to know about it. That’s the players’ private sanctuary, and confrontations happen more often than one might think. If two people ...

AVENAL, Kings County — Carrying signs that read “Exit!” and “Get out, not wanted,” dozens of Avenal residents flooded the first City Council meeting since three elected leaders voted to defy a ...

For Cristina Wu Feng, the back-to-back earthquakes that tore through Venezuela on Wednesday were not a distant disaster: it was a family emergency she could do nothing about. Like many of the roughly ...

The Great American bandwagon rolls into Santa Clara’s Great America parking lot next week and even if you don’t have three grand to spend for one of the few remaining tickets for the game at Levi’s ...

The dish I look forward to most every summer is a BLT sandwich. There are only a few months out of the year when tomatoes are at their peak — meaning they’re ready to pair with bacon. (If you’ve ever ...

Nearly two weeks into the San Francisco Giants’ Pride Night public-relations nightmare, team president and CEO Larry Baer at last said something. Fans, especially those in the LGBTQ community, had ...

Whatever the San Francisco Giants’ plans for Tyler Mahle, Wednesday night’s clinic was an excellent start. The finish, for the Giants, was even better: all their offense came on two swings in the ...

San Francisco Animal Care and Control officers still talk about “Operation Chihuahua,” the 2010 event where 15 of the lap dogs were flown across the country from S.F. to New York City. “The Chihuahuas ...

A man was shot and killed in downtown Oakland on Wednesday afternoon, police said. The shooting happened just before 3 p.m. in the 550 block of 17th Street, near Clay Street. When officers arrived, ...

Should city-funded nonprofits in San Francisco have to disclose their lobbying activities in the same way that for-profit corporations do? One city lawmaker thinks so, and he’s working on legislation ...

Vitello said he and Devers talked on the plane back from Miami, called it “a good conversation … a great talk” and said “from this point on, it’s a non-issue.” He had mentioned Devers’ hamstring ...