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A chunk of meteorite struck the house of a San Francisco Bay Area resident, landing in her backyard, after a meteor streaked through the sky on Wednesday evening.

Suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge and on Caltrain tracks in the Bay Area are on pace to set records. The question is what is prompting them.

Traffic entering San Francisco through the upper deck of the Bay Bridge came to a standstill Thursday morning during a standoff between law enforcement and a gun-wielding man in a car, authorities said.

A gunman wearing a hooded sweatshirt and flanked by two companions walked into a San Francisco Bay area church and stalked the aisles before opening fire during a Sunday service, wounding two teenagers, police said.

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will reopen Monday, a California transportation official said.

The Federal Highway Administration sent engineers Wednesday to investigate what caused repairs to fail on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and drop 5,000-pounds of metal into rush-hour traffic lanes. The agency said it had not inspected the Labor Day weekend repairs made to the heavily used span....