The Civic Center Bay Area Rapid Transit station in San Francisco is closed after a passenger was apparently struck by a train leaving the station just before noon.

An intensive manhunt by San Jose police ended about noon Friday at a mobile home park near the fairgrounds when a man suspected of shooting at officers during a routine traffic stop turned himself in.

A one-alarm fire that caused major damage to a house in San Leandro Friday night likely started due to a drying machine malfunction, an Alameda County Fire Department battalion chief said today.

The San Francisco Bay Area is expected to be mostly cloudy with patchy fog this morning and then become sunny.

Imagine if he had really tried. Pounding his chest, turning up the palms of his outstretched arms, mugging for the cameras before he even crossed the finish line, Usain Bolt rewrote the record books again and captured his first Olympic medal Saturday, toying with the field and running the 100-meter dash in a stunning 9.69 seconds.

When 18-month-old Luke Do was diagnosed with leukemia and needed a bone marrow transplant, doctors told his parents that his chances of finding a matching genetic donor were "slim to none.

BARTs Civic Center station was closed and evacuated near noon today after a person was struck by a train, BART officials said. Only one line was passing through the station - the Pittsburg/Bay Point to San Francisco International Airport line. Others were...

Authorities held out hope Saturday that they could find a clerk who was abducted at gunpoint in a crime captured by the security cameras in a rural grocery store, a sheriff said. Officials were questioning a suspect. Archer County Sheriff Ed Daniels said law...

Democrats stance against offshore drilling has shifted more, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaling on Saturday her willingness to consider opening up more coastal areas to oil and gas exploration. In her partys weekly radio address, Pelosi said opening...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger missed co-hosting an environmental summit in Tahoe today to have a torn meniscus examined by a doctor in Los Angeles. The governor suffered the knee injury while exercising several days ago but hasnt had time to get it looked at,...

President Bush warned Russia on Saturday against trying to pry loose two separatist regions in Georgia and said Moscow must end military operations in the West-leaning democracy that once was part of the Soviet empire. Bush told reporters at his Texas ranch...

Five children, a teenager and a mother died Saturday in a fire that engulfed a Memphis home, witnesses and fire officials said. Memphis Fire Department Lt. Keith Staples said two teenagers and an 11-year-old boy escaped and were hospitalized in stable...