The San Francisco Chronicle

What began as a scam targeting elderly Asian women in San Francisco who believed themselves cursed by bad luck has unfolded into a possible nationwide organized crime ring, police said Thursday. San Francisco officers...

Facebook priced its stock at $38 per share Thursday, officially giving the social-networking giant the largest Internet initial public offering in history and one of the biggest ever. The IPO price was at the top end of...

People want it both ways: They holler for youth, then complain when the kids do not play with the same skills and smarts as a 10-year major-leaguer. Winning and developing simultaneously is not easy. Frustrations abound....

Some relationships are thicker than team bonds, especially the catching fraternity. Cardinals manager Mike Matheny and Giants catcher Buster Posey wear different colors. Even so, Matheny has passed along advice to Posey...

A Vallejo family expressed outrage Thursday that police shot and killed one of their dogs after it ran toward an officer coming to their home to take a report. Police said the officer had no choice but to shoot when the...

A bicyclist struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Dublin was identified Thursday as 57-year-old Bo Hu. Hu, whose listed residence is in China, was riding his bike or walking with it north on Dougherty Road near...

A San Francisco man has been arrested in connection with a Mission District killing in March, police said Thursday. Anthony Lacayo, 19, was arrested on suspicion of homicide Tuesday after a two-month investigation into...

(05-18) 01:48 PDT Orlando, Fla. (AP) -- When George Zimmerman tries to convince a judge or a jury that he shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense, the evidence in the case appears to be a mixed bag. More than 200 pages of...

(05-17) 19:26 PDT MONTREAL, Canada (AP) -- Facing the most sustained student student protests in Canadian history, Quebec's provincial government introduced emergency legislation Thursday that would shut some...

(05-17) 18:44 PDT Oakland, Calif. (AP) -- Oakland police say they seized 16 guns and arrested two people in a raid of a commercial building Wednesday night. Police say some of the guns seized were assault rifles, while...

A San Mateo man who fell off an elevated highway ramp early Thursday and told police he had been trying to flee an armed carjacker made the story up, police said. The 47-year-old man, whom investigators would not...

(05-17) 13:00 PDT , (AP) -- Facebook Inc. is selling 180 million of its shares in its initial public offering. Another 241. 2 million are coming from existing stockholders, including the company's earliest investors and...

(05-17) 10:48 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney and his party together raised $40.1 million in April. The figures put the likely GOP nominee's fundraising haul closer to the $43.6...

(05-17) 07:55 PDT PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea's most famous accordion quintet has added a new 80s-era pop song to their repertoire: A-ha's "Hunting High and Low." The North Korean students shot to YouTube...

(05-17) 07:12 PDT Madison, Wis. (AP) -- Lost in the hoopla over the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker after he took on union rights is an ongoing secret investigation that has already ensnared a handful of...

Richmond voters will decide this fall whether to impose what could be the nation's first municipal tax on soda and other sugary beverages - a penny-per-ounce surcharge intended to fight childhood obesity. The City...

The man charged with murder for allegedly bludgeoning a Berkeley hills homeowner broke the jaw of an Alameda County sheriff's deputy Wednesday, authorities said. Daniel Jordan DeWitt, 23, was being placed in waist and...

Mark Zuckerberg is the guiding force behind Facebook's meteoric rise from college dorm room project to global Internet powerhouse. But with Facebook poised to hit Wall Street on Friday in one of the biggest initial...

In April, Ben Jacobs threw what may have been the year's most elaborate party devoted to the film "Point Break." More than 100 people piled into his SoMa apartment to watch the 1991 Keanu Reeves-Patrick Swayze classic....