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BART Police Shooting, Insight, San Francisco »
BART officials admitted Friday that they shut off wireless communications for some stations in Downtown San Francisco to keep a planned protest from happening — a move that infuriated civil liberties groups and peeved passengers who likened the maneuver to former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak’s regime to crush a citizen uprising.
Bay Area Snapshots »
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Geary and Larkin Streets, San Francisco, Calif.
From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occasional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
San Francisco »
A veteran San Francisco firefighter was killed in the line of duty Thursday morning while fighting a dangerous four-story house fire in the city’s Diamond Heights neighborhood.
Lieutenant Vincent Perez, 48, served with the department for 21 years before he was fatally injured in the two-alarm fire.
Bay Area Snapshots, Traffic & Transit »
San Leandro, Calif.
From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occasional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Insight »
Alameda city officials promised an in-depth review of emergency procedures after a 52 year-old suicidal man took his own life at Crown Memorial Beach on Monday while police and firefighters stood at the shore and watched him sink into the shallow bay waters and drown to death.
The city’s fire department blamed deep budget cuts that eliminated its water rescue training program in 2009 as the primary reason why its firefighters did not go into the water to save the man.
Bay Area Snapshots »
Chinatown, Oakland, CA
From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occasional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bay Area Snapshots »
2011 Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA
From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occasional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Insight »
Call it what you will: a bombshell, a shocker, a show-stopper.
The Los Angeles Times’ eyeball grabbing scoop about former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fathering an out-of-wedlock child with a since retired staffer at his Brentwood home was the talk of the town when it first broke midnight Tuesday.
Insight, San Francisco »
Organizers of the 100th running of San Francisco’s zany Bay to Breaker’s race promised a toned-down and sober athletic event free of the keg-carrying floats and frat party atmosphere that plagued the annual tradition for years.
At first glance, Sunday’s event turned out calmer than in years past: fewer drunks, less public urination and a calmer crowd.
