What kind of asshole buys a lottery ticket and six months later still hasn't checked to see if s/he's won? Oh, wait... that's totally something we would do. But not if there

There's a showcase today of a new interactive map thing, Urban EcoMap, co-sponsored by Cisco Systems and the City of San Francisco, that tracks the environmental footprint of a city by zip code.

The lone teenage Somali survivor of the pirate crew who hijacked the Maersk Alabama a couple weeks back was escorted, smiling, into New York City last night for his court date this morning.

Fremont lunatic Omeed Aziz Popal, 32, has been indicted by a grand jury on murder charges for the hit-and-run death of 54-year-old old Stephen Jay Wilson in August 2006. Popal (pictured with the

It may be It's almost Earth Day, and today is also our national "high holiday," on which college students across the nation gather for smoke-outs, newscasters do hundreds of fluff pieces about stoners

After one student was diagnosed with TB by University Health Services at UC Berkeley, 225 students and faculty had to be screened for the virus infection, which they say cannot be passed through

Photo by ootsmchaggis on Flickr. Two armed kids, ages 8 and 10, with, uh, BB guns, try to hold up Oakland convenience store. (NBC Bay Area) Melissa Huckaby's lawyer wants the little girl's

It's the story every local news station and newspaper-based website is covering breathlessly, so we apologize in advance: a statewide Amber Alert has been issued for 22-month-old Yosseline Meza who was apparently abducted

Windy much? This fishing trawler got blown into, and under the San Mateo Bridge on Tuesday night and, uh, it's still there. After this morning's commute they're planning to close a lane and