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Singletary not focused on facing former team

48 mins ago

Mike Singletary became a Hall of Fame linebacker with the Chicago Bears during a 12-year career spent all with the same club. Photos of Singletary and his Monsters of the Midway brethren still hang in the linebackers meeting room, reminders of the Bears' special 1985 Super Bowl season.

Review: New BlackBerry Storm improves on original

1 hr 12 mins ago

The first touch-screen BlackBerry phone, the Storm, got a few things right, but generally it was a chore to use.

Schools shun Kindle, saying blind can't use it

1 hr 42 mins ago

Amazon's Kindle can read books aloud, but if you're blind it can be difficult to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will shun the device until Amazon changes the setup.

San Francisco supes overturn veto of sanctuary law

16 hrs ago

San Francisco supervisors have overturned the mayor's veto of a controversial ordinance involving how the city deals with illegal immigrant minors facing felony charges.

AOL lays off 100 employees ahead of spinoff

17 hrs ago

Internet company AOL LLC, which will soon be spun off from parent Time Warner Inc., laid off about 100 full-time employees Tuesday.

Pelosi standing ovation from SF health providers

20 hrs ago

Speaker Nancy Pelosi received a standing ovation from San Francisco health providers in her first appearance on home turf since the narrow passage of the House health care bill.

Authorities name trucker killed in bridge crash

21 hrs ago

Authorities have released the name of the trucker who was killed when his big rig plunged off the side of a new section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Former Bush aide seeks to toss torture memos suit

22 hrs ago

A former Bush administration lawyer is asking a federal court to toss a lawsuit by a convicted terrorist who accuses him of drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture.

Former Bush aide seeks to toss torture memo suit

22 hrs ago

A former Bush administration lawyer is asking a federal court to toss a lawsuit by convicted terrorist who accuses him of drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture.

Correction: Gay Marriage-Playbook story

23 hrs ago

In a Nov. 6 story about the tactics of gay marriage opponents, The Associated Press reported erroneously that gay marriage foes had won 31 consecutive statewide ballot measures against the issue. While 31 states have indeed voted down gay marriage, it was not an unbroken string of defeats. Arizona voters in 2006 rejected a proposal to ban same-sex marriage. They reversed course and adopted a ban two years later.