San Francisco Chronicle

Halogen cooktop burners and toilets that double as bidets with temperature controls were among the goods being hawked by 383 building suppliers attending the four-day Pacific Coast Builders Conference. While...

The A`s got the better of the baseball world again Monday by signing pitcher Todd Van Poppel, the outstanding high school player who had vowed to attend college before playing...

San Francisco filmmaker Wayne Wang, currently working with Amy Tan on a film version of her best-selling novel ''The Joy Luck Club,'' says he`s going to fight the Motion Picture...

Threatened by low-cost competition from Hewlett-Packard Co. and others, Apple Computer Inc. is preparing to introduce two new low-cost laser printers next month. Laser printers are a core business at...

Wearing tight bicycle shorts and a cut-off T-shirt, Jose Canseco looked powerful, handsome and indestructible. When he stood in the batting cage at the Oakland Coliseum and tied into an...

Researchers reported that Soviet doctors have identified eight women who contracted the AIDS virus by breast-feeding their infected babies. Although transmission from the mother to her unborn child has been...

St. Clair Drake, professor emeritus of anthropology at Stanford University and a noted scholar in black American studies, has died at his Palo Alto home. He was 79. Mr. Drake,...

A survey of more than 900 black gay and bisexual men indicates that most are informed about the transmission of AIDS, but that nearly half continue to practice unsafe sex....

Citing sluggish sales and the high cost of repair, Sears, Roebuck & Co. said it will close shop in San Francisco Sept. 15. The decision by the Chicago-based chain to...

Edward Louie, who invented the fortune-cookie machine, died Friday. He was 69. In the late 1960s, looking for a way to spare his family the ordeal of turning out thousands...