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Crime lab fallout: Drug defendants go free

It was Justin Belton's lucky day. Belton, 30, pumped his fist in victory today as he left court after San Francisco prosecutors dropped a felony heroin sales case against him. His was...

LGBT Center looks to San Francisco for bailout

Eight years after opening with great fanfare, San Francisco's city-subsidized, $12.3 million Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is on the verge of foreclosure - and is asking the cash-strapped city for...

S.F. mayor seeks texting limit at city meetings

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to push the off button on the trend of text messaging during meetings of the Board of Supervisors and various city commissions. The tech-savvy mayor, himself an...

U.S. hikers held in Iran contact families

Three UC Berkeley graduates who have been held in Iran for seven months since hiking across the border from Iraq have been allowed to call home for the first time, their families...

Oakland: Jackson Street gets patched up a bit

What's working better: Four months ago, Chronicle Watch reported on Oakland's Jackson Street between Seventh and 10th streets. It was a stretch of pavement so strewn with crevices that Chronicle Watch reader Roger...