SF News American Airlines Plane Cabin Walls Come Apart After Taking Off From SFO Yesterday, an American Airlines flight headed to Dallas/Fort Worth returned to San Francisco International Airport when passengers noticed that the cabin walls were buckling and tearing apart. American Airlines flight 2293 returning
Arts & Entertainment Video: Elderly Pirates Fan Somehow Gets Into Giants Dugout Yes, Giants ace Madison Bumgarner delivered against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL Wild Card game, as we expected. But what we didn't expect is that the shoddy Pirates security would allow a
SF News 6.0 Earthquake Hits Near Napa, 120 Injured [Updated] At about 3:20 a.m., a 6.0 earthquake hit north of San Francisco in Napa County. The earthquake was 10 miles northwest of American Canyon, about 6 miles southwest of Napa.
Arts & Entertainment "Calvin & Hobbes" Creator Bill Watterson Returns With Artwork In "Pearls Before Swine" Comics Earlier today, former-San Francisco lawyer/now-syndicated cartoonist Stephan Pastis, revealed that legendary "Calvin and Hobbes" creator had contributed artwork to Pastis' "Pearls Before Swine" comic strip this week. Apparently Pastis had struck up
SF News 16-Year-Old Survives Flight To Hawaii While Hiding In Plane's Wheel Well A teenage boy who sneaked into the wheel well of a flight to Hawaii from San Jose airport was called "lucky to be alive" by the FBI after he survived the five-hour journey.
Arts & Entertainment Here's How Twitter Engineers Looked When Ellen's Tweet Went Viral Last night, Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres decided she wanted to try and break the record for most-retweeted Tweet ever—President Obama's reelection victory Tweet got over 780,000. To beat his record, she
SF News Woman Gets Called 'Slut' By Hateful Envelope Lisa McIntire has really had enough of having her lifestyle choices judged by office supplies, and who can blame her? First it was the stapler telling her she looked "used up," then it
SF News VC Tom Perkins: I Regret Comparing Plight Of 1% To Nazi Germany But It's Totally Like Nazi Germany On Sunday, rich, deluded San Francisco resident Tom Perkins wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal—which the WSJ published—complaining that Occupy Wall Street's attack on the 1% was just like
SF News North Korea Frees 85-Year-Old American (And Korean War Vet) Last night, North Korea deported the 85-year-old American tourist it had detained since October 28. Merrill Newman landed in Beijing and decided to take a direct flight to San Francisco (scheduled to arrive
SF News [UPDATES] Twitter Opens On New York Stock Exchange At $45.10 [UPDATE BELOW] Twitter is about to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (which opens at 9:30 a.m. Eastern/6:30 a.m. Pacific time). Shares are priced at $26,
SF News [Updated] You Can't Update Your Facebook Status Right Now It's Monday and you're actually going to have to deal with your work inbox, since Facebook is refusing let anyone to update their status now. Or let them do much of anything else
SF News 10-Yr-Old's Stray Bullet Wound Mistaken For Period Blood Police in Hayward, California are investigating a shooting that left a 10-year-old girl wounded, because bullets went through her bedroom wall. And her parents didn't even realize she was injured—the girl and
SF News NTSB Releases Asiana Crash Photos, Says Jet Was "Significantly" Slower Than Normal Speed For SFO Approach As the investigation continues into the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, the National Transportation Safety Board has given another update about what it found so far from the cockpit and flight data
SF News Apple Stores May Accept Old iPhones For Trade-In Do you want an iPhone 5, but you still have a stupid old iPhone 4/4s? And do you only buy your iProducts at Apple stores? Well, your lucky day may be coming
SF News Yahoo Officially Announces $1.1 Billion Tumblr Acquisition, "Promises Not To Screw It Up" Hey, everyone, now that Yahoo is going to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has a Tumblr blog. She wrote this morning, "I’m delighted to announce
SF News Yahoo Will Buy 'Hipster Blogging Platform' Tumblr For $1.1 Billion [Update] UPDATE: Yep, it's official. Guess there will be big news at Yahoo's Monday product event in New York: The Wall Street Journal reports, "The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.
SF News Time Magazine Puts Same-Sex Kisses On Covers To ride the same-sex marriage wave, Time Magazine's newest issue has two covers—one of a lesbian couple kissing and one of a gay couple kissing. Both couples are white but the article
SF News 7 Marines Killed In Training Exercise At Nevada Army Facility Military officials have confirmed that seven U.S. Marines were killed and many others were injured last night during a training exercise at Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada. NBC News reports, "a mortar
SF News Insane Video: California Magician's Head Set On Fire By Dominican TV Host Last week, magician Wayne Houchin was appearing on a TV show with other magicians in the Dominican Republic when a guest host poured a flammable liquid on his head. Houchin's head caught fire,
Arts & Entertainment Adorable Photos: SF Zoo's Polar Bears Frolic In Man-Made Snow The San Francisco Zoo's polar bears had a birthday surprise today—the zoo brought in 10 tons of man-made snow to celebrated Pike's 30th birthday and Ulu's 32nd birthday. Plus there were other
SF News Apple's $1 Billion Triumph: Jury Rules Samsung Infringed On Apple Patents Last yesterday, a federal jury found that Samsung had indeed infringed upon Apple's smartphone and tablet patents and ordered the Korean electronics maker to pay Apple over $1 billion in damages. As the
Arts & Entertainment Spectacular Beaches, Glowworms And Mount Doom: Head To Auckland For An Adventure Much like San Francisco, Auckland, New Zealand is a stunning city by the bay with mouthwatering culinary options in and around it. But when you take advantage of one of Air New Zealand's
SF News Tony Robbins' Motivational Walk Across Hot Coals Injures 21 Participants Have you ever wanted to listen to a self-help guru and then get second- and third-degree burns? That's what happened to some attendees at a Tony Robbins event in San Jose Thursday night.
SF News Mark Zuckerberg's New Facebook IPO Status Update: Listed Company On NASDAQ OMG OMG OMG—Facebook's initial public offering is today, with sales of the social media stock going on sale at 8 a.m. PST. But founder Mark Zuckerberg and many others are becoming
SF News Craigslist Killer Suspect's Fiancee Moves On Megan McAllister, the NJ woman engaged to suspected Craigslist killer Philip Markoff, is moving on with her life after dumping the jailed medical student. She was spotted visiting him at his jail yesterday—
