LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Glee" is about to learn if the Emmys care to sing its praises. The hit musical-comedy show about a high school glee club was a leading nominee at Sunday's Emmy Awards, including bids for best comedy series and cast members Matthew Morrison, Lea Michele, Jane Lynch and Chris

TOKYO (AP) -- Residents of neighboring resort towns in central Japan are waging a battle against a marauding monkey that has bitten dozens of people in the past few weeks -- and the monkey is winning.

The San Francisco Bay Area is expected to be partly cloudy today, with inland conditions becoming mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs on the coast in the upper 60s, inland in the mid 70s and winds of 5 to 15 mph are anticipated.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Seven U.S. troops have died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's embattled southern and eastern regions, while officials found the bodies Sunday of five kidnapped campaign aides working for a female candidate in the western province of Herat.

A burning mattress caused a two-alarm fire in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood early Sunday morning, a fire dispatcher said. One person was transported to San Francisco General Hospital from the fire, the dispatcher said.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Paris Hilton's latest run-in with the law began when a motorcycle officer got a whiff of suspicious smoke emanating from a Cadillac on the Las Vegas Strip.

Two San Francisco police officers were involved in an exchange of gunfire in the city's Bayview neighborhood on Saturday night. No one was hit in the crossfire and police are still seeking multiple suspects, according to San Francisco police Sgt.

Oakland's Jason Campbell carted off field after suffering a stinger

Hercules police responding to a missing persons report found a man dead in a home Saturday afternoon.

As Bay Area governments lead the charge on banning plastic carry-out bags, a bill reaching the final stages of the legislative process could make cloth bags a necessity for all state shoppers.

Full-time court reporters in the Bay Area can earn $60,000 to $100,000 a year -- or more -- depending on how many hours they're willing to work.

IT'S THE END OF the workweek, your attache case feels like a block of cement with a handle, and you drag yourself off the BART train at the Rockridge station, weary to the bone.

A woman leaped to her death this morning while trying to escape from a burning eighth-floor apartment in San Francisco, police said. Officers found the woman dead on the sidewalk on the 800 block of OFarrell Street, between Polk and Larkin streets, at about...

A 53-year-old homeless man was beaten to death Saturday near Kezar Stadium in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park, police said. The city medical examiners office identified the victim as Michael Ponder. Officers found his body about 7:30 a.m., said Sgt. Troy...

A man threw himself in front of a Muni bus on a San Francisco street and was killed Saturday, police said. Officers determined the death was a suicide and the driver was not at fault, said Sgt. Troy Dangerfield, a police spokesman. It happened shortly after 6...

As a Fremont police officer clung to life Saturday, the suspect in his shooting was captured in San Diego just one block away from the U.S.-Mexico border by a sharp-eyed police officer. Andrew Barrientos shot at two Fremont officers as they tried to arrest...

NASAs Kepler spacecraft, whose powerful telescope is scanning the stars in the Milky Way, has discovered two giant planets with abruptly changing orbits around their star that could offer insights into the birth and history of solar systems everywhere in the...

Forget the Dow and the GDP. Heres the latest economic indicator: The U.S. birth rate has fallen to its lowest level in at least a century as many people apparently decided they couldnt afford more mouths to feed. The birth rate dropped for the second year...