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SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco couple’s divorce has taken an ugly turn following the breakout of a legal and ethical fight over the fate of frozen embryos they created five years ago. The issue began shortly after Dr. Mimi Lee, 46, received a breast cancer diagnosis back in September 2010 that prompted her and her husband, executive Stephen Findley,...

SAN FRANCISCO—Reddit’s Interim CEO, Ellen Pao, has resigned from the post she held for eight months following increased scrutiny by the Reddit user community. In recent months, Pao became a controversial figure among users due to her exercises in leadership that proved unpopular. Reddit, which is based in San Francisco, will see its original co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman return to...

SAN FRANCISCO—A recent Bloomberg survey named San Francisco hotels the most expensive in the world, with an average price of $397 a night. To gather the data, Bloomberg calculated hotel rates in 100 financial centers for two adults in a double-occupancy room. To account for holiday, promotional and convention-related pricing, rates were taken in May and averaged between two periods...

WESTWOOD—UCLA's football program found itself under the national spotlight following Monday's incident which resulted in the arrest of rap icon Sean "Diddy" Combs. Combs, whose son Justin is a reserve defensive back for the Bruins. Justin's father has been seen at many of the team's practices. The rap mogul is a well-known public figure and has an estimated net worth of $700...

SAN FRANCSICO—A high school in San Francisco is ready to become the first public school in the nation to offer an LGBT studies course. Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts has developed a curriculum for the LGBT studies course and plans to offer it in fall 2015 for their students. Lyndsey Schlax, a teacher at Ruth Asawa since...

WARNING: Article contains disturbing images. CHARLESTON, NORTH CAROLINA—The discovery of Caitlyn, a brown Staffordshire terrier who was found on the doorstep of her former owner's home with her snout taped shut, sparked a manhunt in Charleston, South Carolina for a ruthless animal mutilator. Caitlyn, formerly known as "Diamond," was sold on Memorial Day for $10 by her original owners, who were...

SAN FANCISCO—According to new data from the Case-Shiller index, the housing market is on the rise, and homes in the city of San Francisco saw the largest jump in price. As of March 2015, San Francisco housing prices are up 10.3 percent from a year ago. Denver came a close second, with a 10 percent increase in home prices. Washington D.C. and Cleveland,...

SAN FRANCISCO—Carlos La Roche, a Bay Area freelance producer working for the ABC-owned station KGO, was fired last week after sending out an inflammatory tweet about Oakland protestors. The tweet, which reads, "Looks like the born losers, er "protestors" will be in #Oakland 2night. Hope OPD uses real bullets. Now let's get back to this one... #Hoops." The tweet was sent...

SAN FRANCISCO—Christina Liew has pleaded guilty in an economic espionage case in which she and her husband Walter Liew were accused of stealing trade secrets from the American chemical company DuPont and selling them to a Chinese competitor. Liew, her husband, and DuPont employees took part in an alleged conspiracy to sell the formula for a highly coveted whitener that...

SAN FRANCISCO—Leading up to her 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton paid a visit to the San Francisco Bay Area to raise money in one of America's wealthiest cities. Clinton has two fundraisers planned, the first of which took place today in the home of billionaire and environmentalist Tom Steyer. Later this evening, the former Secretary of State will visit a longtime...