Maya Angelou, Poet And Author Who Got Her Start In Bay Area, Dies At 86
Author and poet Maya Angelou, who spent her formative years in the San Francisco Bay Area becoming a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died.
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Author and poet Maya Angelou, who spent her formative years in the San Francisco Bay Area becoming a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died.
Google will build a car without a steering wheel with hopes of having 100 prototypes on public roads in a year.
Police said they have not yet determined a motive for the shooting. No arrests have been made.
Most Bay Area residents belive the region's high cost of housing and increasing congestion on local roadways are reaching "crisis" levels, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
A treasure trove of rare gold coins that were discovered by a California couple out walking their dog last year went on sale Tuesday, with the first coin fetching $15,000 that will be contributed to turning San Francisco's Old Mint into a museum.
The story of a depressed goat and his best friend Jellybean the donkey are taking the internet by storm.
For the second time in as many weeks, a San Francisco street sign has been hacked to read a clever message to drivers.
Sergey Brin, co-founder of the technology titan, told a Southern California tech conference Tuesday evening that Google will make 100 prototype cars that drive themselves—and therefore do not need a wheel. Or brake and gas pedals.
Thousands gathered at the University of California, Santa Barbara on Tuesday to mourn six students killed in a weekend rampage as California lawmakers proposed new ways of keeping guns out of the hands of disturbed killers.
Amid sky-high rents and a flood of evictions, the San Francisco Rent Board is unable to keep up with the overwhelming number of housing complaints.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced it has received two international awards for its gas operations on the same day the utility was criticized by San Bruno's mayor for what a competing press release called 'playing Russian roulette with California cities."
Two students from City College of San Francisco are planning to sue the school and the San Francisco Police Department after they say they were beaten up by officers after a campus protest in March.
A new report by Pew Charitable Trusts shows that California legislators make over $90,000 a year and may still be getting a raise.
Yahoo! appears to be getting ready to launch a new video service aimed at challenging YouTube by tapping into their viewers, while paying content creators more for ad traffic than the Google-owned company.
The state Senate has approved a pilot program under which some California community college campuses would offer four-year degrees in certain specialized fields.
