After our urgent, coordinated actions, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie were - indeed within minutes - prevented from visiting Sai Baba at Whitefield near Bangalore. They were about ten minute's drive away from his ashram

Shell Oil Co. will pay $19.5 million to settle a lawsuit that accused it of violating rules on hazardous waste, underground fuel storage and other environmental regulations at its gas stations in California, Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday. The...

State prison officials announced a five-year plan Friday to add beds and treatment space for about 2,600 mentally ill inmates, in response to years of federal court rulings that found substandard psychiatric care in California's penal institutions. Most of...

Another day, another Bay Bridge commute slowed to a halt by an accident at the famed S-curve. On Friday morning, a motorcyclist rear-ended a truck that resulted in a broken leg for the motorcyclist and an hourlong delay for San

Mayor Gavin Newsom was spotted Friday morning at City Hall, but he wouldn't come out and discuss his mysterious disappearance. Newsom arrived at his office about 9:30 a.m., walking past members of the media who were hoping he'd comment on

Santa Clara County has agreed to pay $800,000 to the father of one of the two bicyclists struck and killed by a sheriff's deputy who fell asleep at the wheel of his cruiser, officials said Thursday. Deputy James Council's car

A federal appeals court granted a Catholic advocacy group's request Thursday for a new hearing on whether San Francisco expressed official hostility to religion in 2006 when the Board of Supervisors denounced a Vatican order to Catholic Charities not to

Pharmacists championed San Francisco's law, which made it the first city in the country to ban the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products at drugstores. Now San Francisco entrepreneur Stuart Skorman, founder of the now defunct holistic-oriented...

California is paying six to seven times more per day to care for some elderly and disabled people in nursing homes because a state-funded in-home care program is turning them away, welfare advocates and lawmakers said Thursday. Advocates for the

Edward Wycoff, who spent his murder trial cracking jokes and proudly admitting he had killed his sister and her husband in their El Cerrito home, should die by lethal injection, a jury said Thursday. The jury's decision came in spite

The Obama administration hired Jared Blumenfeld to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regional office. He takes the post after serving for eight years as San Francisco's environmental czar, where he grew his department into a major player on the...

A Richmond High School student recovering from a gang rape has told police that she was betrayed that night by one of her attackers, whom she considered a trusted friend, the lead investigator in the case said Thursday. Richmond police

Oakland Mayor Ronald V. Dellums owes the residents of this great city an explanation. And if he can't provide one, he owes his resignation. The mayor is by no means the first public figure to run afoul of the Internal

From major conferences at the Moscone Center to small coffee shops in the Mission, San Franciscans are buzzing about Mayor Gavin Newsom and the stunning turn of fortune that in a few short days took him from being a candidate

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A young Folkestone man has been killed in a car crash in Southsea, Hampshire.

Capel le Ferne farmers' market which started six years ago is still going strong.

A Dover man has been charged with a shooting incident at Alkham in October which left a motorist critically ill in hospital.

Thieves using a mechanical digger have escaped with a cash machine from a Shepway bank.