Bay Area communities are organizing efforts to help victims of the four disasters that struck the Samoan Islands, the Philippines, and Indonesia this week. Below are a few places to drop off donations. Additionally, the American Red Cross is working to assist all three regions, and they're accepting monetary and blood donations and volunteers. more ›

A frustrated customer at the Philippine Airlines ticket counter at SFO's International Terminal, when told he was going to have to pay for a full round-trip fare, became so incensed that he held up his cell phone and suggested that he was going to blow up the whole goddamn plane. He's now in jail in lieu of paying $50,000 bail. more ›