These are excerpts from the San Francisco Police Department's daily log of activities. Incidents are listed by police precincts and the neighborhoods they patrol.

These are excerpts from Peninsula police departments' daily log of activities. Incidents are listed by city.

In recent years, Mayor Gavin Newsom has jetted around the globe spreading the gospel of San Francisco to foreign businessmen, lobbying Washington, D.C., politicos and global municipal leaders while raising his national and global profile as he prepares for life after City Hall.

A hit-and-run accident and another major collision minutes later may have one thing in common: two allegedly intoxicated women, police said.

The Big ONE 2008, a free two-day event focusing on community building and sustainability, takes place today and Sunday at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

Rock fans who party too hard at Bay Area concerts over the decades have helped to keep a San Francisco health care clinic open.

Researchers have uncovered a new clue to the cause of Alzheimers disease. The brains of people with the memory-robbing form of dementia are cluttered with a plaque made up of beta-amyloid, a sticky protein. But there long has been a question whether this is...

The upper Mississippi River was expected to largely reach its high point Sunday, cresting at several spots north of St. Louis after rising for weeks and flooding towns in Missouri and Illinois. National Weather Service forecasters said the Mississippi would...

Five people have been slain in shootings this weekend in Oakland, including a man gunned downed near an illegal sideshow car rally on 90th Avenue and another killed at a Chinese restaurant on Foothill Boulevard, police said today. The Alameda County coroner...

Rescuers battled huge waves and strong winds Sunday to reach a ferry that capsized during a deadly typhoon in the Philippines a day earlier, but found no immediate signs of the more than 740 passengers and crew. Coast guard frogmen who managed to get to the...

The message from the National Weather Service to the Bay Area: Just be glad you dont live in Arizona. Or Southern California, for that matter. The high-pressure system that drove up temperatures all over the western United States late last week didnt let up...

He might have been forgotten. Milton Dinerboiler grew up in Elkhart, Ind., during the Depression. He lived alone with his father, who was killed in a car accident when the young man was just 16. Dinerboiler joined the Army shortly thereafter and went to fight...

Concord insurance brokerage Jenkins rebrands
Jenkins Athens Insurance Services, the Concord insurance brokerage and employee benefits firm, has renamed itself Jenkins Insurance Group in a brand repositioning move that consolidates all of its services under one name.

Seesmic raises $6 million in round two, Omidyar joins board
EBay founder Pierre Omidyar will join the board of San Francisco video company Seesmic as part of a $6 million venture funding round.

URS Corp. wins Air Force radar test site contract
URS Corp. will work for the U.S. Air Force in Alamogordo, N.M., under a support and maintenance contract worth up to $76.5 million over 7 years and 9 months. (URS) (PKI)

Linden Lab plans virtual world fair for Second Life's 5th birthday
Linden Lab plans a two-week virtual party to celebrate the fifth birthday of its simulated world Second Life.

Wine Institute names Margaret Duckhorn this year's chairman
The Wine Institute, the San Francisco-based advocacy and lobbying group for California's wine industry, elected Margaret Duckhorn of Duckhorn Vineyards as its chairman for the 2008-09 fiscal year, officials said Thursday.

Mentally Disabled Camper Missing On Mt. Tam
The Marin County Sheriff' Office has sent a search and rescue team to look for a 49-year-old mentally disabled man who was reported missing Sunday morning on Mount Tamalpais.

Gas Prices Blow Bay Area Bands' Touring Budgets
Filling up at more than $4 a gallon or more is taking a toll on Bay Area bands.  If they're not canceling their tours, small indie acts are banding together, stuffing themselves into smaller vehicles or cutting short their tours.

500 NorCal Fires Burn; Largest In Napa Valley
Lightning sparked more than 500 fires that burned around Northern California on Sunday. The largest had spread across 5.5 square miles of grassy woodland in Napa and Solano counties.

4 Oakland Men Believed Dead In Boating Accident
Authorities said four Oakland men were missing and believed drowned after their overloaded boat sank in a Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta canal near Tracy early Sunday.

Relief As Temps Drop, Bay Area Heat Wave Ends
Bay Area residents feeling stressed by a heat wave found relief Sunday from triple and near triple-digit temperatures that had become commonplace in recent days.