San Francisco Chronicle

Joshua Brody and his wife, Juliana Grenzeback, have been married for seven years, but they have never lived together. Grenzeback lives in a neat, pleasant house in San Francisco. Brody...

An $18 million fixer-upper? In a quintessential Bay Area real estate saga, the onetime residence of San Francisco Symphony benefactor Louise M. Davies is being auctioned on behalf of a...

The average luxury home in the San Francisco Bay Area now runs a cool $2.7 million, up $329,000 from one year ago, according to a study by San Francisco's First...

On Saturday morning, when the deal to bring LaTroy Hawkins from Chicago was announced, it looked as if it was a debatable gamble. By the afternoon--after San Diego's Phil Nevin...

Tom House was a modestly built left-handed relief pitcher with a below-average fastball. He also used steroids. House has acknowledged trying steroids for "a couple of seasons" during his playing...

Scott Peterson, convicted of murdering his wife and unborn child, had been on Death Row barely an hour when the first proposal arrived from a woman who wants to be...

Scott Peterson, convicted of murdering his wife and unborn child, had been on Death Row barely an hour when the first proposal arrived from a woman who wants to be...

Tough to have sympathy It's so hard to write this through the tears. Poor Barry "Puffy" Bonds, what have we done to you? "You guys (the media) wanted me to...

Dusty Baker has had chances to win that long-awaited championship, and his teams haven't come through. Life could be worse. Over the long haul, it should be enough that his...

One of those now-it-can-be-told stories that the White Sox, A.J. Pierzynski's new employer, surely haven't heard: During a Giants exhibition game last spring, Pierzynski took a shot to his, shall...