San Francisco Chronicle

The great-great-grandson of the man who founded Santa Ana in Orange County 120 years ago is pioneering his own brand of homelessness in San Jose, where he survives with an...

The crack cocaine epidemic is reversing longstanding attitudes in this liberal city about casual drug use and civil rights, forcing sweeping changes in law enforcement policies. Mayor Loni Hancock, who...

Fashion trends come and go, but T-shirts have staying power. Be they threadbare, beer-stained, printed or plain, do you know anyone who doesn`t have at least one? There`s a T-shirt...

Jill Branch, a first-time mom, insists she does not go hog wild buying baby things for her infant daughter. She considers herself a practical parent. She tries to resist the...

The phone rang at 5 a.m. It was the puppy woman. ''You better get up here fast,'' said the puppy woman. ''It`s happening.'' I am a sucker for puppies, especially...

Against all the odds, former Houston securities broker John Paul Cain, 53, won a Senior PGA Tour event last month in Grand Rapids, Mich. Friday, in the $350,000 Rancho Murieta...

A luxury commuter bus with smoked windows and a dashboard of blue Naugahyde rolled down U.S. Hwy. 101 to San Francisco recently on its inaugural voyage. It looked like just...

My house was built in 1910, and it has charm. Charm is brokerese for ''ancient plumbing.'' It has chips and scrapes and cracks and bends; rain and sun and earthquakes...

Eighteen days after cable-TV subscribers pay $19.95 to watch The Who and an all-star cast perform the rock opera ''Tommy'' live from Los Angeles, Fox TV affiliates are expected to...

When last heard from, Connell Cowan and Melvyn Kinder were telling single women how to find the right man and shake off losers. Now the best-selling authors of ''Smart Women/Foolish...