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Thousands of San Francisco Bay Area residents may have been exposed to measles last week when an unvaccinated student at the Unversity of California, Berkeley, attended classes and rode the area's BART transit system. Public health officials in Contra Costa County, outside of San Francisco, said anyone riding BART from Feb. 4 to Feb. 7 during the morning or late evening commutes could have been exposed to the highly contagious respiratory virus. The young man in his 20s lives in the county and was confirmed to have measles on Wednesday. He was likely infected while traveling recently in Asia, health...

This is a famous quote of JFK which media seems to have forgotten: “The level of crime in a City is in direct proportion to the will of its citizens and Law Enforcement Officers to tolerate it” - President John F. Kennedy. Today I see our police officers out in force, and I want to thank them all for their services and the duty they hold to help our citizens. They are my heroes. I love all of them, and wish them a very, very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Hannukah and Holy Days. God bless our police officers.

For at least the seventh time since November, a portable toilet was set ablaze near Russian Hill in San Francisco this morning, according to the fire department. The fire was reported at about 12:45 a.m. near the intersection of Union and Taylor streets and was nearly extinguished by the time firefighters arrived, according to a fire dispatcher. An arson team was out to investigate the scene, the dispatcher said. The fire department warned construction workers on Dec. 9 about an arsonist and asked them to keep the toilets locked and out in the open to prevent damage to surrounding objects....