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.

The owners of the plane that caught fire on Saturday at SFO received a threat against its aircraft shortly before the incident, according to a report issued by federal officials Thursday.

Gene Darny, owner of Lotta's Bakery on Polk Street, says an industrywide decline in small neighborhood bakeries might discourage most prospective pastry entrepreneurs, but for him, it became an opportunity.

A conventional filmmaker, Alex Gibney, salutes one of literature's legendary rebels, Hunter S. Thompson, in the documentary "Gonzo," and this matching indeed yields no revelations about its indomitable, outrageous, iconoclastic, substance-consuming, gun-loving subject.

It's always sad to see a great player lose his special skills while still unwilling to acknowledge that. Willie Mays lost his home run stroke three years before he retired and famously misjudged a fly ball in the 1973 World Series.

The Academy of Art graduate, 39, of San Francisco, won the coveted Elisabeth Gordon Chandler Prize in the 2008 National Competition for Figurative Sculpture in Connecticut last month. Bae was one of 13 people in the nation chosen by the National Sculpture Society to compete.

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86. Its just incredible...

Joey Chestnut has reclaimed the top spot as winner of the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi in a 10-minute chow-down and then beating him in a five-dog eat-off. The men tied at 59 frankfurters in...

NAME _ Jesse Alexander Helms. AGE _ Born Oct.18, 1921 in Monroe, N.C. EDUCATION _ Monroe public schools; Wingate Junior College and Wake Forest College. FAMILY _ Wife, Dorothy Coble Helms; children Jane Knox, Nancy Grigg and Charles Helms; seven...

Some quotes of Jesse Helms, who died on the Fourth of July at age 86: Im so old-fashioned I believe in horse whipping. _ During a debate in 1991 on an AIDS-related amendment. Well, there is no joy in Mudville tonight. The mighty ultraliberal...

Bettina Schardt knew that the combination of drugs she drank in the living room of her home in Wuerzburg last week would kill her, and she died alone. But this was no ordinary suicide. A German doctor told her just the right formula of antimalarial drugs and...

The plan was nothing if not audacious: A turncoat persuades rebels to bring together their most prized hostages and march them 90 miles through Colombias wilderness. A month later, disguised commandos primed with acting lessons land in a helicopter and trick...

Google to close Denver office
Google Inc. will close its Denver office but keep two others in the area. (GOOG)

Anesiva VP to leave company
South San Francisco pain drug maker Anesiva Inc. said Patrick Broderick, a vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, will leave the company July 11.

Goldilocks is dead, CSI looking for the body, says Wells economist
With crude oil hitting $145 a barrel and jobless numbers looking recessionary, the so-called Goldilocks economy that was neither too slow to throw people out of work nor too strong to fuel inflation is over, according to a report issued Thursday by a Wells Fargo economist. (WFC)

GoFish Corp. completes private placement, adds HQ
GoFish Corp. raised the remaining $2 million of a $3.5 million private placement.

Ask.com wraps up Dictionary.com acquisition
Ask.com finished buying Lexico Publishing Group LLC, which owns dictionary.com. (IACI)

Power Pole Fire Causes Outages For SF Customers
A fire on a power pole in San Francisco's Mission District Friday morning left 235 Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers without electricity, a company spokesman said.

Big Sur Evacuation Zone Grows; More Homes Burn
A ferocious� wildire continued creeping closer to� Big Sur� Friday, after jumping a fire line and claiming more homes. An extended evacuation order now includes both sides of� a 39-mile section of state Highway 1.

San Jose Libraries Close Doors On Sundays
Beginning this weekend, San Jose will be closing the doors to several of its branch libraries on Sundays in an effort to save the city an estimated $350,000.

Public Transit On Weekend Schedule For July 4th
Various Bay Area transportation companies are operating on weekend schedules Friday for Independence Day.

Fiery East Bay Helicopter Crash Kills 2 Men
A flight instructor and his student were killed in a helicopter crash near Interstate 680 in Alameda County Friday morning after the aircraft hit power lines and ignited a grass fire, authorities said.