Nearly 400 San Francisco police employees have sued Tetra Tech Inc. in federal court on claims of negligence and racketeering conspiracy for allegedly causing them …
An Alameda County Superior Court judge has upheld a jury’s verdict that Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller caused cancer in a Livermore couple but substantially reduced their …
A’s right fielder Stephen Piscotty had successful surgery Thursday to remove a melanoma from his right ear.
An Alameda County Superior Court jury on Monday awarded more than $2 billion in damages from Monsanto Co. to a Livermore couple who claimed the …
federal jury in San Francisco on Wednesday awarded a Sonoma County man more than $80 million in compensation and punitive damages.
After years of fighting fires on the front lines, Jeanine Nicholson will rise to fire chief in May.
A judge upheld pesticide manufacturer Monsanto’s liability in a lawsuit alleging exposure to the company’s Roundup product played a substantial role in causing a man’s cancer.
A San Francisco jury found a man guilty of murder Thursday for bludgeoning his cancer-stricken friend to death more than a year ago inside the victim’s Nob Hill apartment.
Jurors began deliberating Tuesday in the murder trial for a man accused of bludgeoning his cancer-stricken friend to death inside his friend’s San Francisco apartment last year.
A San Francisco judge Wednesday granted a new trial in a case against pesticide manufacturer Monsanto brought by a cancer-stricken Vallejo man.
For the second time this week, a Nobel Prize has been given to a scientist associated with the University of California at Berkeley.
James P. Allison, immunologist and former director of University of California at Berkeley’s Cancer Research Laboratory, was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
A San Francisco Superior Court judge will hear arguments Oct. 10 on a bid by Monsanto Co. for dismissal of a $289 million jury verdict for a cancer-stricken gardener.
Willis Casey, who served as San Francisco’s police chief in the early 1990s and later as police chief, city manager and a city councilman in Pittsburg, died Thursday after a battle with cancer.
An eight-year-old lawsuit filed against PG&E Co. for alleged releases of dioxin from stored utility poles into San Francisco Bay and Humboldt Bay has been settled, according to the environmental group that filed the lawsuit.
A Vallejo man with cancer was awarded $250 million in punitive damages Friday in a landmark lawsuit against herbicide manufacturer Monsanto..
A San Francisco Superior Court jury heard closing arguments Tuesday in the civil suit against pesticide manufacturer Monsanto, brought on by a 37-year-old Vallejo man who said he was diagnosed with cancer after regularly using the company’s pesticide.
A Bay Area scientist is the first veterinarian to be chosen as a TED Fellow.
Belmont City Councilman Eric Reed died on Friday following an extended battle with cancer.
San Francisco is banning the sale of upholstered furniture and children’s products that contain flame retardant chemicals.