San Francisco Chronicle

Few snorers can sleep easy in Davis these nights-the noise police are on patrol. Two weeks ago, a community services officer was dispatched in the dead of night to a...

The guitarist whose 1960s rock 'n' roll band gave the Woodstock generation the famous "fish cheer" is now representing troubled youths as a public defender. The Mendocino County Board of...

Director Blake Edwards has tapped Michael Smuin to choreograph the musical version of Edwards' 1982 cross-dressing comedy, "Victor/Victoria." Edwards' wife, Julie Andrews, will play the role on Broadway next summer,...

It's not nice to be snippy, even to software. I know that. I was raised right. She wasn't big, but my mom swung a broom like Ted Williams in the...

A thundering uproar is shattering the serenity of semirural Sonoma County as residents rally against the famed Frenchman who dared to challenge their sacred cow. For more than a quarter-century,...

Ten years ago, former TV news anchor Christine Craft sued a Kansas City station that demoted her for being "too ugly," a highly publicized and ultimately unsuccessful case that added...

A Bay Area couple is suing Northwest Airlines for allegedly kicking them off a flight in Detroit because they have a disorder that causes them to scream obscenities involuntarily. Adam...

In the beginning there was the skin patch to prevent motion sickness. Then came the nitroglycerin patch to treat people with angina, the estrogen patch to help women deal with...

Opera singer Jess Thomas, one of the greatest Wagnerian tenors of the last half-century, died Monday night at his Tiburon home after suffering a heart attack. He was 66. Mr....

When Sid Yelton was laid off from his construction job, the cards seemed hopelessly stacked against him. Yelton, 33, had been a construction worker for 15 years. It was all...