According to The Chronicle, San Francisco police has managed to launch a criminal investigation into a drug lab technician Deborah Madden, 60, who is suspected of stealing cocaine evidence, though her sister believes that the woman has taken away a bottle full of the same.

The roads around Fisherman's Wharf, which were jam-packed with tourists, were retrieved today by the local people who spread out in order to take advantage of street closures. It blocked off about more than three miles of the Embarcadero.

San Francisco's police chief on Thursday extends hopes about the resumption of drug evidence testing as soon as today with the help of outside agencies, even as prosecutors posted that the number of cases registered a fall because of a cocaine-skimming scandal at the Police Department's lab is likely to rise.

At the 2010 Games Developer Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Sony marked its foray into the motion-controller arena, with the unveiling of its forthcoming motion-sensitive controller – the PlayStation Move - for its PlayStation 3 console.

The San-Francisco-based startup TripIt, the 'intelligent' travel organizer that helps travelers manage their plans to ensure a smooth trip, recently raised $7 million in a third funding round; led by new investor Azure Capital Partners, along with O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, which also participated in the company's earlier two funding rounds.

San Francisco based Diamond Foods Inc has hit a deal with London-based private equity firm Lion Capital to buy potato-chip maker Kettle Foods for 402.3 million pounds. Kettle Foods was founded in 1978 and initiated UK production in 1989.

Lion Capital had acquired the business in 2006 in a deal worth 170 million pounds.

San Francisco transit officials announced Friday to cut MUNI service citywide by 10 percent as part of a plan to bridge a widening budget void.

Also, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency revealed to introduce a reduction in the frequency of many bus routes and to eradicate some service earlier.

According to reports from San Francisco and Los Angeles, Internet search giant Google is looking to revolutionize Internet use by attempting to build a network which enhance net access for users by almost 100-times faster speed than the currently-available network.

An argument inside a restaurant led to shots being fired, and a man and two teenage girls were injured. An argument broke out between 3 people, which lead to gunfire in Sinbad's restaurant.

San Francisco-based GoodGuide, a consumer group, has said that the holiday season's most popular and fastest selling toys, robotic hamster Zhu Zhu Pets are "unsafe" and kids should be kept away from them.