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A judge cited a conflict of interest Thursday while denying a public defender’s request to represent a man charged in the grisly slayings of five people inside a San Francisco home.

After a short-lived occupation of less than 24 hours, Occupy participants in San Francisco were evicted Monday from a previously vacant building they had attempted to re-purpose as a social and community center. Around 80 people were arrested...

A battered yacht and its bruised crew limped into port Monday after a giant wave smashed over the stern with such force that it carried away the boat’s steering wheel and knocked the crew about like bowling pins. A Coast Guard cutter reached...

The man suspected in the brutal slaying of five people in a San Francisco home has been charged with five counts of murder with special circumstances, making him eligible for the death penalty. The San Francisco district attorney’s office...

A 27-year-old Occupy protester was stabbed Monday night outside the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco, one day after another activist was stabbed in the same spot, police and demonstrators said today.

The suspect in last week’s slayings of five people near City College of San Francisco was sentenced in 1998 to 11 years in prison for robbing a Chinese restaurant in Santa Clara County, according to court records. Binh Thai Luc, 35, of...

Over the past nine weeks, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi hasn’t spoken to his wife and has seen his 3-year-old son only sporadically.

Over the past nine weeks, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi hasn’t spoken to his wife and has seen his 3-year-old son only sporadically.

Mayor Ed Lee has given Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi until this afternoon to resign or face removal from his office, according to media sources. A spokesman with the mayor’s office said Lee will address the issue later in the day, and reporters...

A contrite and emotional San Francisco sheriff apologized Monday for a domestic violence incident with his wife after a judge sentenced him to three years of probation and ordered him to attend an anti-domestic violence program. “There...