Wednesday June 9, 2010 Updated 12:07 PM PDT
San Francisco's first-in-the-nation ban on tobacco sales in drugstores appears to be unconstitutional because it exempts supermarkets and big-box stores that have pharmacies, a state appeals court said Tuesday.
A Bay Area motorcycle dealer will pay $55,000 to settle a sex-discrimination suit by a woman who said she dreamed of being a Harley-Davidson mechanic since she was 9 and "saw a picture of Janis Joplin sitting on a chopper."
Four pioneering scientists in Northern California are among eight winners of the prestigious Kavli Prizes for inventive research advancing neuroscience, astrophysics and "nanoscience," the science of the ultrasmall.
An unusual tandem bicycle that was stolen from a garage in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf has been found and will be returned to...
Chronicle 6.9.10 10:52 AM
A former University of San Francisco basketball player was shot to death and another man was wounded in the parking lot of the Ikea...
Chronicle 6.9.10 11:16 AM
California voters defeated a measure Tuesday that would have changed state law to allow insurance companies to raise rates on drivers...
Chronicle 6.9.10 8:57 AM
A ballot initiative that would have limited the ability of local governments to enter the electricity business was narrowly defeated...
Chronicle 6.9.10 8:53 AM
Santa Clara voters Tuesday approved Measure J, the San Francisco 49ers' plan to build a $937 million stadium in their community. The...
Chronicle 6.8.10 11:21 PM
No one doused 49ers President Jed York with a bucket of Gatorade, but Measure J supporters celebrated an election victory just the...
Chronicle 6.8.10 11:23 PM
San Francisco voters approved a $412 million bond measure Tuesday to shore up and expand San Francisco's emergency water supply system...
Chronicle 6.9.10 4:00 AM
Local news, sports, weather, business, and entertainment drawn from the morning Chronicle and SFGate exclusives every weekday.
12:02 PM San Francisco: Autistic girl to get her stolen bicycle back sanfrancisco.cityandpress.com/node/1473623 (SanFranciscoCP)
11:52 AM San Francisco: Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to Rehear Rambus Cases bit.ly/95aFqh (SanFranciscoCP)
11:38 AM OAKLAND: Political Writer Carla Marinucci Previews The Governor's Race: bit.ly/bCDRS0 (ktvu)
This week's community op-ed comes from artist Randolph Belle, the founder and director of Support...
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