Witnesses saw a full-clothed man, believed to be middle-aged, enter the water along Ocean Beach just before 2:10 p.m., the San Francisco Fire Department said in a statement late Thursday.

South San Francisco Police Department said officers who arrived at an address in Arroyo Drive at 5.55pm immediately called for backup because the suspect was shooting into an occupied home.

SAN FRANCISCO - At least one person was hospitalized and a dog died on Friday after fire broke out in an apartment unit in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, fire officials say.

A man died Thursday after rushing into the perilous waters of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach fully clothed in an attempt to rescue his dog, authorities said. While the dog made it out of the ocean ...