Dennis Herrera

(Reuters) - A U.S. judge blocked most of a San Francisco ordinance on Thursday that required warnings about cell phone safety risks, saying it violated the First Amendment.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A local ordinance that requires warnings about cell phone safety risks should be blocked from taking effect, an industry group argued in a U.S. court filing on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A local ordinance that requires warnings about cell phone safety risks should be blocked from taking effect, an industry group argued in a U.S. court filing on Tuesday.

Complicated jockeying, fierce political battles over who, how to replace SF Mayor Gavin Newsom. The November election results have touched off intense political jockeying in San Francisco over who will become mayor, setting the stage for the possibility of the city being led for the first time by an Asian-American or openly gay man.

Agency to pay $45K penalty for video game ads that vandalized San Francisco sidewalks. An advertising agency has agreed to pay the city of San Francisco a $45,000 penalty over a messy guerilla marketing campaign for a video game.

Phone group sues San Francisco over first-of-its-kind law requiring cell phone radiation info. The wireless industry sued the city of San Francisco on Friday to stop a law that requires cell phone stores to post how much radio energy each model emits.

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to rally across the United States Saturday in a protest at a tough new immigration law in Arizona that has triggered an outcry from rights groups.

Major League Baseball chiefs were urged to strip Arizona of the 2011 All-Star game on Friday in protest at the state's tough new immigration law.

San Francisco joins in urging MLB to move 2011 All-Star game in Arizona immigration boycott. San Francisco city officials went further in their call for a boycott of Arizona on Friday, urging Major League Baseball to find a new home for the 2011 All-Star Game, currently scheduled to take place in Phoenix.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Immigration rights activists called on baseball fans on Tuesday to stay home from Arizona Diamondbacks games as part of a broad economic boycott to protest a statewide crackdown on illegal immigration signed into law in Arizona.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - With Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants looming, Guatemalan Samuel Roldan is swapping the family's battered Chevy Suburban, which he feels marks them out as low-income migrants, for a smarter, more corporate-looking Nissan.

Company claims Cocoa Krispies boost immunity to illness . Kellogg is facing a class action suit over its claim that Cocoa Krispies help boost children's immunity to illness. The suit is the latest in a series involving allegedly dubious claims about everyday food products, particularly cereals.

Gay marriage lawyers Olson, Boies don't want San Francisco's help with federal lawsuit. The prominent lawyers leading the fight to legalize gay marriage in California on Friday formally told San Francisco officials and three other groups supportive of same-sex weddings "thanks, but no thanks" for trying to join their federal lawsuit.

The City of San Francisco and gay rights groups want in on federal gay marriage lawsuit. Last month gay rights groups altered course to back a federal gay marriage lawsuit likely headed to the Supreme Court; now they want to intervene as full-fledged plaintiffs in the suit. And so does the City of San Francisco, the AP reported. The lawsuit over a California gay marriage ban is being mounted by Theodore Olson and David Boies. The two legal titans are representing a gay couple and a lesbian couple who would like to marry but cannot because of Proposition 8, the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban upheld as constitutional by the state Supreme Court in May. The lawsuit argues that Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution. Three gay rights groups ? the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ? and the city of San Francisco have petitioned the court to intervene on behalf of the case. Lead plaintiff the American Foundation for E