Because you can't go home. One of our guilty pleasures during storms is sitting around and looking at live traffic updates to keep track of the mayhem. We snapped this screenshot just now. Accidents and incidents literally every minute? We'd be glad we're taking MUNI except that it's closed at Market at 3rd... Anyway, as far as we can tell, if you live in Marin and work in Contra Costa, or vice versa, you can't......

Uh oh! Did you stop by the Jamba Juice on Lincoln Avenue in Willow Glen in San Jose any time during the first two weeks of August? An employee may have given you hepatitis A. Turns out one of the food handlers didn't realize she was sick and she might have given it to you if she didn't wash her hands properly. If you were at the JJ from August 9-16, get a shot. If......

We were on the 7 a few days ago and four gutterpunk types were complaining about how the city had taken their stuff from camps in Golden Gate Park. One of them, a long-haired fellow with a small backpack and very large pants, went on and on about how he was going to get a grant to put GPS chips in all of his things so he could get them back. Who, exactly, would pay......

Photo of accident scene at Park Presidio and Balboa in the Richmond....

Did you see (video footage) all that smoke (pictures) yesterday? A fire at 17th and Noe Street between the Mission and the Castro at around 6:30 yesterday evening displaced at least 14 people, and sent seven to the hospital for smoke inhalation. One man had to be rescued off the roof. The fire spread to the building next door too, but firefighters managed to put it out before that building was too damaged. The SFFD......

Those of you who commute from Marin to 280, you may want to go down Van Ness today -- all southbound traffic has been stopped through Golden Gate Park just south of Fulton and down Park Presidio as the authorities clean up the mess (no story, but video clip on front page) from an overturned lumber truck. The driver is reported to be fine; the accident happened around 5:15 a.m. It sounds like the driver......

Predictably, the second day of Winter Storm December 2004!!!!! has caused the usual tie-ups on the roads. And not just the usual entertaining footage of some poor sap trapped in a teeny car in Lake Army Street Underpass either! ...