Provides the latest RSS feeds for San Francisco News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page San Francisco News.Net http://www.sanfrancisconews.net/ en-us Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:52:20 -0500 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:52:20 -0500 30 Work continues under the elevated roadway of the new Presidio Parkway as the project's first phase nears its end. There's a hitch with the next ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279264&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:59:34 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279264&cat=20134e53b4e12830 A little-known California law has dealt a blow to nearly half of the for-profit college campuses in the state, barring them from offering students a coveted Cal Grant this year. The law cracks down ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279265&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:59:25 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279265&cat=20134e53b4e12830 San Francisco shares the top spot for the steepest parking meter fines in the United States and has the third-highest hourly parking rates for metered spaces. That was the finding of a new survey ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279268&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:59:17 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279268&cat=20134e53b4e12830 's wife, who so far has refused to cooperate with investigators in the domestic-violence case against him, has herself a new set of lawyers - including one who has experience with a ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203276376&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:59:11 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203276376&cat=20134e53b4e12830 (02-06) 09:34 PST OAKLAND -- The facade of a liquor store on International Boulevard in Oakland crumbled and fell to the sidewalk today, authorities said. No one was hurt when the brick masonry at ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279267&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:59:04 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279267&cat=20134e53b4e12830 (02-06) 08:41 PST SANTA ROSA -- A 61-year-old woman was shot and killed in her Santa Rosa apartment Sunday, police said. A caller reported hearing a single gunshot from the apartment at 934 Clark ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279269&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:58:57 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279269&cat=20134e53b4e12830 (02-06) 05:52 PST ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia's top court on Monday struck down a state law designed to discourage assisted suicides after a legal battle brought by four members of a suicide group ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279273&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:01:42 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279273&cat=20134e53b4e12830 In this Jan. 6, 2012 photo, attendees check out the unveiling of 4G devices at the Verizon booth during the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas. Challenging Netflix, Verizon said Monday, Feb. 6, ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279275&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:01:37 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279275&cat=20134e53b4e12830 (02-06) 08:10 PST LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) -- Britain has recalled its ambassador from Syria for consultations on the escalating violence in the country, Foreign Secretary William Hague said ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279274&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:01:33 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279274&cat=20134e53b4e12830 A San Jose man was arrested Saturday morning after he allegedly kidnapped his ex-girlfriend and assaulted a man who tried to save her. Vincent Esparza Padilla, 38, of San Jose kidnapped his ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279277&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:01:25 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279277&cat=20134e53b4e12830 NEW YORK -- The overnight rating for the New York Giants' Super Bowl win over New England was less than 1 percent shy of the record tied last year. New York's 21-17 victory Sunday night on ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279252&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:57:15 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279252&cat=20134e53b4e12830 British hip-hop artist M.I.A.'s obscene gesture in the Super Bowl halftime show is prompting apologies from NBC and the NFL. But it isn't immediately registering as a moment that viewers ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279253&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:57:12 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279253&cat=20134e53b4e12830 MADRID (AP) -- Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title Monday and banned for two years after sport's highest court found the Spanish cyclist guilty of doping. The Court ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203277253&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:57:09 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203277253&cat=20134e53b4e12830 HONOLULU -- A second Marine is going to trial for allegedly hazing a fellow Marine who later fatally shot himself in Afghanistan. Sgt. Benjamin Johns has been charged with a wrongfully humiliating ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279254&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:57:08 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279254&cat=20134e53b4e12830 SAN FRANCISCO -- Oh, the weather outside was frightful: Clear, sunny skies mixed with a crisp bite of cold air, no wind and a high-pressure "bubble" keeping out clouds and ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279256&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:57:05 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279256&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Twelve Santa Clara County probation officers are standing in a circle, each twirling a rope with a noose at one end. They're pretending to lasso a criminal under their supervision.Then an ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203278937&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:57:01 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203278937&cat=20134e53b4e12830 PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of America's top ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279257&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:56:57 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279257&cat=20134e53b4e12830 The campus bookstore at San Francisco State University was bustling last week. A long line snaked through the aisles, as students waited to pay for this semester's books. Junior Gloria Keane ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279278&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:54:38 -0500 San Francisco Examiner http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279278&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Follow this company has signed a 160,000 square foot lease to move its headquarters to 680 Folsom St. in San Francisco, a long-vacant former telephone building ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279258&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:46:39 -0500 San Francisco Business Times http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279258&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Larkspur Hotels has sold another property from its four-star hotel collection. This time a direct competitor was the buyer: Kimpton Hotels snapped up the 84-room Riverplace, gaining itself a third ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279259&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:46:27 -0500 San Francisco Business Times http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279259&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Rambus Inc. has bought Unity Semiconductor Corp. for $35 million in cash. Unity Semiconductor is developing technology for solid-state memory. Its employees have joined Rambus with the ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279260&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:46:22 -0500 San Francisco Business Times http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279260&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Federal and state officials are looking this week to wrap up a multibillion settlement with five major mortgage lenders over alleged foreclosure abuses, the Wall Street Journal reports. The banks ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203276266&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:46:17 -0500 San Francisco Business Times http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203276266&cat=20134e53b4e12830 The private-equity firm TPG, which has an investment arm in San Francisco, has brought in about 4 billion yuan (or about $635 million), in Chinese funds, the Wall Street Journal reports. TPG raised ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203277164&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:46:10 -0500 San Francisco Business Times http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203277164&cat=20134e53b4e12830 DMB Pacific Ventures, the developer of the controversial Saltworks project in Redwood City, is exploring the possibility of using desalinated water to supply the 12,000 homes and other facilities ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279261&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:46:05 -0500 San Francisco Business Times http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279261&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mark Zuckerberg may have a historic tax bill following Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering, Bloomberg reports. Zuckerberg could sell some $1.67 billion of stock during the IPO to pay taxes ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279262&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:46:00 -0500 San Francisco Business Times http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279262&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Managing the huge amounts of data flowing over the Internet will be a driving force behind tech mergers and acquisitions in the coming year, Bloomberg reports. Bay Area tech giants will likely be ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279263&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:45:55 -0500 San Francisco Business Times http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203279263&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Police are searching for a 14-year-old Hollister girl who appears to have run away with a 41-year-old San Francisco man last week. Serena Burr's grandmother reported the teenager as missing ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203270732&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:35:10 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203270732&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Annie Sprinkle turns to signal her partner at a meeting to discuss the goals of Occupy Bernal, a group formed by Bernal Heights residents in ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203273825&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:49:07 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203273825&cat=20134e53b4e12830 If the subject is the state budget, you know what follows: What will be cut this time? This has been an annual discussion ever since California's economy imploded and tax revenues dried up.It ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203273466&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:44:56 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203273466&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Chef, author and food activist Bryant Terry's new cookbook, The Inspired Vegan, is loaded with unexpected delicacies. (Courtesy of Jennifer ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203270565&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:44:54 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203270565&cat=20134e53b4e12830 The City has developed a comprehensive transportation plan for the America's Cup, consisting of bike-sharing stations, extended historic streetcar routes, enhanced pedestrian paths and express ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203273828&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:43:13 -0500 San Francisco Examiner http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203273828&cat=20134e53b4e12830 A hearing on how to improve taxicab efficiency and reliability will be convened at the Board of Supervisors' Land Use and Economic Development committee meeting, the first of what will be ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203273829&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:43:09 -0500 San Francisco Examiner http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203273829&cat=20134e53b4e12830 BEST WESTERN INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES SAN FRANCISCO PROPERTY UPGRADES AND RENOVATIONSThe Brand Continues Focus on Improving Hotels in Gateway Cities and Leisure Travel Hotspots PHOENIX (June 9, ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203270675&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:05:05 -0500 Best Western http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203270675&cat=20134e53b4e12830 A fire in a huge warehouse on Mare Island that filled North Bay skies with smoke Sunday morning was under control but will continue to smolder, officials said Sunday evening. The four-alarm blaze ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203267043&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:16:47 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203267043&cat=20134e53b4e12830 UC Berkeley senior Jenna Westendorf said she doesn't know anything about the Republic of Georgia and probably couldn't find it on a map. But that isn't stopping her from considering ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203267046&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:16:46 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203267046&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Rep. Pete Stark gave Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich a political poke in the eye today by introducing a bill to close a loophole that lets certain self-employed people -- including ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203267037&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:13:07 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203267037&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Q Traffic problems have started on Highway 17 with the reopening of the Cats restaurant in Los Gatos, and I'm expecting some nasty collisions. A few nights ago, a car was seemingly waiting to ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203267039&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:13:06 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203267039&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Numerous Oakland Raiders fans, still angry over what they consider a bad call in a game against the New England Patriots more than 10 years ago, were thrilled to see the New York Giants prevail in ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203265210&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:23:42 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203265210&cat=20134e53b4e12830 The City of San Francisco wants more time to examine a pro-life group's challenge to an ad campaign using public property to advocate for abortion."We heard from the city yesterday, and ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203264174&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:57:49 -0500 EWTN http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203264174&cat=20134e53b4e12830 This undated photo provided by Karanda Williams shows Daniel and Belinda Conne. The couple and their adult son were found injured but alive Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 after they got lost while picking ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203263506&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:38:50 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203263506&cat=20134e53b4e12830 It's the biggest stage in all of advertising -- the Super Bowl. It's the place where some of the most acclaimed ads in television history have aired, from Apple's iconic ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203263503&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:35:38 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203263503&cat=20134e53b4e12830 LIVERMORE -- A man's ear was cut nearly off when he was hit in the head with a beer glass during a bar fight Saturday night around midnight, police said.Two men got into a dispute that led to a ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203263505&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:35:30 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203263505&cat=20134e53b4e12830 The 49ers and their fans don't want to hear this, but they know it's true, even as they shut their eyes and clasp their ears shut:The New York Giants played a thoroughly 49ers kind of game ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203263342&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:35:29 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203263342&cat=20134e53b4e12830 MANILA, Philippines -- A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines on Monday, killing a child and triggering a local tsunami alert. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203263070&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:35:27 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203263070&cat=20134e53b4e12830 (02-05) 19:08 PST Seattle (AP) -- State authorities can expect tough questions about whether more might have been done to protect the children of a missing Utah woman who were killed along with ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203262275&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:03:28 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203262275&cat=20134e53b4e12830 CONCORD -- A 69-year-old woman died in her driveway Sunday morning after being trapped underneath a car that rolled over her, police said.Joyce Arendtson died after medical personnel extricated her ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203262273&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:59:52 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203262273&cat=20134e53b4e12830 HOLLISTER -- Police are searching for a 14-year-old Hollister girl who appears to have run away with a 41-year-old San Francisco man last week. Serena Burr's grandmother reported the teenager ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261127&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:27:09 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261127&cat=20134e53b4e12830 OAKLAND -- Seven people were shot within about an hour in West Oakland and North Oakland on Sunday afternoon, police said.The shootings occurred just after 3 p.m., and all the victims are in stable ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261126&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:23:33 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261126&cat=20134e53b4e12830 A Vallejo man was arrested Saturday after a lengthy car pursuit that ended in Martinez, Vallejo police said.The driver was identified as Gerald Brown, 20, and was arrested and booked into Solano ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203260398&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:23:32 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203260398&cat=20134e53b4e12830 About 50 firefighters fought a four-alarm fire in an abandoned Mare Island warehouse for two hours Sunday morning before bringing the massive blaze under control.Vallejo Fire Chief Paige Meyer said ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261125&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:23:30 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261125&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Snow and cold temperatures affect much of Europe, former Occupy DC camp cleaned up, violence continues on the streets of Cairo, and Queen Elizabeth II prepares to celebrate 60 years of her reign. ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261124&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:23:26 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261124&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Five years ago, the medical staff at San Francisco General Hospital saved Margaret Timbrell's life after she was struck by a truck while riding her bike. Today, she is giving back. The ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261128&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:50 -0500 San Francisco Examiner http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261128&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Shoppers who don't bring their own bags would be hit with a fee under legislation being considered by city leaders. A ban on all single-use plastic bags also is part of the ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261129&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:45 -0500 San Francisco Examiner http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261129&cat=20134e53b4e12830 More rain is coming to the Bay Area this week, but the storm system is expected to be short-lived, the National Weather Service said Sunday.Periods of rain are expected in The City on Monday night, ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261130&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:40 -0500 San Francisco Examiner http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261130&cat=20134e53b4e12830 David Hanna, a 27-year-old San Francisco resident, was fatally struck on Interstate 280 in Daly City on Saturday morning when he got out of his car after ramming into a sound wall on the highway, ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261131&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:34 -0500 San Francisco Examiner http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203261131&cat=20134e53b4e12830 A Pierce County Sheriff's deputy and Graham Firefighters work around the smoldering remains of a house near Fredrickson, Wash., Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, where, according to a sheriff's ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203259791&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:44:32 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203259791&cat=20134e53b4e12830 SAN LEANDRO -- Before Burrell Field is bulldozed this spring and a modern sports complex is built in its place, the San Leandro Sports Foundation will attempt to revive an old rivalry that died in ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203259788&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:40:52 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203259788&cat=20134e53b4e12830 With his brain cancer in remission and his cognitive skills on the mend, Tony McCall is healthy enough to join his friends for football and hot wings on Sundays.During one such recent outing, when ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203259787&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:40:49 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203259787&cat=20134e53b4e12830 (02-05) 13:39 PST LAS VEGAS, (AP) -- Ford is demanding that rival General Motors pull a Super Bowl commercial that implies the Chevrolet Silverado pickup is more dependable than the Ford F-Series. ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203258266&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:04:38 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203258266&cat=20134e53b4e12830 (02-05) 14:20 PST Lansing, Mich. (AP) -- The portrayal of a young Asian woman speaking broken English in a Super Bowl ad being run by U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra against Michigan incumbent ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203258267&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:04:35 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203258267&cat=20134e53b4e12830 It's well documented that Tiger Woods hasn't played in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in a decade and he won it just once in 2000, his lone victory in six tries between 1997 and 2002. ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203258264&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:01:26 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203258264&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Bay Area residents have been asked not to burn wood Sunday by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.District officials said that due to stagnant weather patterns predicted over the next ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203257000&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:22:56 -0500 San Francisco Examiner http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203257000&cat=20134e53b4e12830 The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office is looking for information about a strong-arm robbery Thursday night in which a woman leaving an apartment complex was struck in the head before having her ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203257001&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:22:52 -0500 San Francisco Examiner http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203257001&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Pat Tura wants to change the way pedestrians and cars interact at intersections. And she's starting in her own neighborhood.A handful of recent pedestrian deaths in the Duboce Triangle and ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203256055&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:51:44 -0500 San Francisco Examiner http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203256055&cat=20134e53b4e12830 An an oil boom floats around the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. The Concordia ran aground on Jan. 13 after the captain deviated ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203254954&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:19:21 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203254954&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Lyndon LaRouche devotees proselytizing in Marin and displaying posters that portray President Barack Obama with a Hitler-style mustache have elicited a rash of complaints to local police and public ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203254465&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:16:46 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203254465&cat=20134e53b4e12830 NEW YORK -- When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer -- "a sea of pink" traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich. -- she was so moved she sat in ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203254953&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:16:44 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203254953&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Everyone wants to be happy. And yet most people aren't even sure what happiness is -- much less how to get it. Unraveling that mystery is the work of smile science, a field that relies on ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203253763&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:42:50 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203253763&cat=20134e53b4e12830 that up."First, two important facts: Stanford Hospital provided great care, and it lost money on my dad. Of his final bill, Medicare only paid $67,800. Like other hospitals, Stanford only ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203253183&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:42:48 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203253183&cat=20134e53b4e12830 INDIANAPOLIS o San Francisco's Jim Harbaugh has won the 2011 Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year award for leading the 49ers back to the ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252494&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:38:16 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252494&cat=20134e53b4e12830 are trying to cheat them out of millions of dollars. The issue: The Mieuli heirs want to sell their piece of the Niners, and they say the Yorks are lowballing them on the value of the team. The ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252486&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:03:46 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252486&cat=20134e53b4e12830 California has the most expensive red-light camera tickets in the world - the fine is so steep that one camera in Oakland generates more than $3 million a year - and a Fremont man is launching a ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252488&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:03:29 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252488&cat=20134e53b4e12830 This traditional-style home at 301 Lakefield Place, Moraga is located on a private, 2.8-acre gated property. It offers five bedrooms and 3.5 baths over 3,962 square feet and is listed for $1.649 ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252489&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:03:20 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252489&cat=20134e53b4e12830 With considerably less fanfare than it received in 1999, San Francisco's Metreon on Saturday debuted its modest and somewhat more open design. People visiting the former "entertainment ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252490&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:03:13 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252490&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Bevan Dufty (left) speaks at Larkin Street Youth Services Drop-In Center, where Mayor Ed Lee (right) announced Dufty's appointment as director of ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252491&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:03:06 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252491&cat=20134e53b4e12830 There are so many positive aspects to the fast-moving plans for the Salesforce.com campus in Mission Bay that architectural nitpicking might seem, yes, picky. But with the 9-acre first phase now ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252492&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:02:59 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252492&cat=20134e53b4e12830 49ers for their new stadium is the end of any hope the team will stay in San Francisco. I still say out-of-towners who fly in to watch their team play the Niners in Santa Clara will stay in San ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252493&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:02:54 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252493&cat=20134e53b4e12830 An incomplete fireplace installation was identified as the cause of a Friday morning fire in Hayward that caused about $20,000 in damage, a fire captain said. Firefighters quickly extinguished a ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252479&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:00:16 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252479&cat=20134e53b4e12830 The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Friday night for a missing crab fisherman from San Ramon who did not return from a trip off the San Mateo County coast.Searchers had combed more than 3,800 ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252483&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:00:04 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252483&cat=20134e53b4e12830 A 54-year-old man who complained of stroke-like symptoms while 200 miles out at sea on a cargo ship was rescued Saturday by Air National Guardsmen from the 129th Rescue Wing.Two rescue helicopters ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252482&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:00:00 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252482&cat=20134e53b4e12830 FREMONT -- Gus Morrison has been here before but never under these conditions.As interim mayor, he'll be working with the rest of the City Council under tight budget constraints without a ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252485&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:59:57 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252485&cat=20134e53b4e12830 I'm a big believer in geographic determinism, and I suspect the clement weather in San Francisco has a lot to do with its pervading buoyant mood. That's why I disagree with the standard ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252310&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:43:47 -0500 Time http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203252310&cat=20134e53b4e12830 This 1960s urban renewal project embodies everything misguided in the planning of that era, treating the existing city as a thing to be razed or ignored. But give credit to the creators and their ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203250307&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:59:26 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203250307&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Among the Tenderloin's problems -- brothels masquerading as massage parlors, open-air dealing of heroin, oxycodone, crack cocaine and other hard drugs -- medical marijuana seemed low on the ... http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203250943&cat=20134e53b4e12830 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:25:29 -0500 San Francisco Examiner http://feeds.sanfrancisconews.net/?rid=203250943&cat=20134e53b4e12830