Annie Vainshtein

Black Friday doesn’t manifest the same way it did two decades ago, when people camped in parking lots and fought each other to get into department stores. But the tradition hasn’t died yet,...

‘He rearranged my bones’: S.F. woman sues APEC, volunteer over violent assault

A San Francisco man was convicted Tuesday of fatally attacking an 88-year-old grandmother during a spree of violent crimes he carried out in 2019, the district attorney’s office said.

Marin County prosecutors charged the teenage driver whose car slammed into a tree and burst into flames — killing four of her friends — with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, attorneys said.

A serial harasser of women who was sentenced to 5½ years in jail and prison has apparently been released — and was seen approaching several women in San Francisco.

Bay Area resident suspected of running ghost gun factory inside his apartment

A man who tried to stop a shoplifter at a Walgreens was assaulted in San Francisco, police said. No arrests have been made yet.

A Palo Alto man was convicted this week, for the second time, of killing his ex-girlfriend and lighting their home on fire. 

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus from office Tuesday in a vote that marked a dramatic and historic culmination of a bitter saga.

The driver of an SUV that slammed into a redwood tree and burst into flames in Marin County lost control of the vehicle while speeding, according to a CHP report obtained by the Chronicle.