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San Quentin Inmates Rescue Boaters From Bay

San Quentin State Prison holds a lot of bragging rights. Home to California's male death row, the prison sits on a desirable plot of Marin County overlooking San Francisco Bay and has hosted the likes of such crooning celebrities as Johnny Cash ("At San Quentin," 1969) and B.B. King ("Live at San Quentin," 1990). As of...

A Sign? Man Bursts Into Flames at San Francisco Sex Shop

For seven years, Roger Huang, a pastor who runs a rescue mission in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, has been trying to shut down the sex shops there. This week he may have seen a sign that his efforts are working. On Wednesday, a man burst into flames while inside one of those porn shops, police said. Could this...

Drivers Donate $61,000 for Giants Fan Beaten Into a Coma at Dodger Stadium

Motorists driving by Dodger Stadium on Monday donated $61,000 to help San Francisco paramedic Bryan Stow, the Giants fan who was beaten into a coma last month by two men. It was the second time in less than a month that the parking lot hosted a fundraiser -- on March 14, passing drivers and pedestrians helped...

Legendary Big-Wave Surfer Sion Milosky Drowns at Mavericks

Sion Milosky had surfed waves just like this one before. But this time, the colossal wall of water at Mavericks plunged him deep into the ocean and would not let him go. Milosky, a famed big wave surfer from Hawaii, died late Wednesday after wiping out and being caught in a two-wave hold-down off the coast of California's...

Feds Deploy More Radiation Monitors in Western US

SAN FRANCISCO -- Growing concern by Americans over exposure from damaged nuclear plants in Japan has prompted officials to deploy more radiation monitors in the western United States and Pacific territories, federal environmental regulators say. Officials with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said they do not expect...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST - LOCAL

There's An Election Next Week?

Changes the state legislature's term limits from allowing for sever years in each of the two houses to 12 years that can be serves entirely in either house.

THE HUFFINGTON POST - LOCAL

PHOTOS: Local Chefs Compete In San Francisco's 'Pork Olympics'

In San Francisco, you aren't a chef until you get your pig tattoo.

THE HUFFINGTON POST - CULTURE

Terence Clarke: The Cult of Beauty

The exhibition The Cult of Beauty , now in its only U.S. showing at The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco (through June 17) reminded a friend of mine that, when she lived in New York City in the 1960s, "you could have bought most of these paintings for a song."

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San Francisco Public Park System Ranked Best In The Nation (PHOTOS)

As if San Francisco needed another trophy to add to its already impressive mantlepiece, the city's park system has been crowned the best in America among the nation's largest cities.

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Cuba's First Daughter Tours San Francisco Gay Rights Organizations

The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro is in San Francisco to meet with gay rights activists and to chair a panel at a prestigious academic conference.

San Francisco News From the Web

05/31/12 Cities' tough transition from blue collar to white Source: SFGate.com - San Francisco CA As cities try to reinvent themselves after losing large swaths of their manufacturing sectors, they are discovering that one of the most critical ingredients for a successful transformation - college graduates - is in perilously short supply.
05/31/12 Mayor Lee to unveil new San Francisco budget Source: The San Francisco Examiner - San Francisco CA Mayor Ed Lee will unveil his two-year city and county budget proposal today at City Hall in the Board of Supervisors chamber.
05/31/12 5 Things to Look Forward to When GSW Move to SF Source: CBS - KPIX 5 - San Francisco CA Last week, the Golden State Warriors' ownership announced plans of moving the team to San Francisco in 2017.
05/30/12 Battleship USS Iowa arrives in Southern California Source: The New York Times The battleship USS Iowa was at anchor off the coast of Los Angeles on Wednesday morning, completing a four-day journey south from San Francisco.
05/30/12 Jury convicts four San Francisco men for murder of... Source: FOX - KTVU 36 - Oakland CA A Marin County jury convicted four San Francisco men Wednesday morning of conspiracy and the murder of Novato businessman Tong Van Le, 44, as he sat in his car in the garage of his home in 2008.

Background on San Francisco

San Francisco (), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.6 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland.

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