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SANTA CLARA — As the Detroit Lions wrapped up their 40-34 win over the 49ers on Monday Night Football, an unmistakable chant rang out at Levi’s Stadium. “JA-RED GOFF! JA-RED GOFF!” It wasn’t so long ago that Goff couldn’t solve …

SANTA CLARA – Here is how the 49ers (6-10) graded in Monday night’s 40-34 home finale against the Detroit Lions (14-2): PASS OFFENSE: D+ Brock Purdy emerged with an injured throwing elbow, two seasons after an ulnar collateral ligament tear …

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On top of the 49ers 40-34 loss to the Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy re-injured his throwing elbow on Monday night. Purdy said he “100 percent” wants to play in Sunday’s regular-season finale at the Arizona Cardinals …

SAN FRANCISCO — Hardly anyone has been able to keep up with the league’s best offense this year, so at least the Warriors can say they aren’t alone. Against the Cavaliers, who have a league-best 28-4 record, nothing worked on …

In a rematch of last season’s NFC championship game, the 49ers lost 40-34 to the Lions in front of a national TV audience. Though the matchup did not affect either team’s postseason prospects – San Francisco was eliminated last week, …

SANTA CLARA – Closing down Levi’s Stadium with an offensive slugfest at least makes for an entertaining, annual ritual. A year after the 49ers rallied here past the Detroit Lions for the NFC Championship, Monday night’s rematch essentially came without …

SANTA CLARA — So much for Monday night’s game not meaning anything. The standings might not have been affected, but the 49ers and Lions delivered one of the season’s most entertaining games. Of course, it ended the way so many …

SAN FRANCISCO — Although a leaf fell off Steve Kerr’s coaching tree this week with the firing of Mike Brown, the branch in town for the Warriors’ matchup against the Cavaliers has never been more fruitful. Kenny Atkinson, who spent …

SANTA CLARA – With the 49ers eliminated from the playoffs after an injury-wrecked 2024 season, many San Francisco fans have already turned their attention to the offseason. Among the thousands congregating in the parking lot at Levi’s Stadium on Monday …

OAKLAND — PG&E customers who reckoned with a series of rate increases in 2024 can expect a respite in early 2025 as combined monthly bills are poised to be only a bit higher compared to a year ago. A typical …

OAKLAND — Three BART police officers injured when their two vehicles collided Saturday were responding to a reported drug overdose at the West Oakland station, officials said Monday. The three officers remained hospitalized Monday. A fourth person who was driving …

SAN JOSE — Like everyone else on the San Jose Sharks roster, Macklin Celebrini has grown sick and tired of losing so many games. And as Celebrini makes his way through his rookie NHL season — and with the rebuilding …

The last time the 49ers hosted the Detroit Lions, the stakes could hardly be higher. It was the NFC title game, and the 49ers came back from a 17-point halftime deficit to win, 34-31, and advance to the Super Bowl. …

OAKLAND — After a devastating year of crime in 2023, former Mayor Sheng Thao made a risky promise to the public: homicides would come down, she said, if the city revived a once-lauded approach to curbing gun violence that apparently …

SANTA CLARA — At stake tonight for the 49ers and the Lions are two very contrasting elements. The 49ers (6-9) can secure last place in the NFC West — and, conceivably, an easier schedule next season — by losing this …

Four years after Hilaria Baldwin mired herself and her husband Alec Baldwin in a scandal over her alleged “decade-long grift” to fake a Spanish immigrant identity, the Boston-born influencer was caught in a holiday video last week speaking in a …

SAN JOSE — The San Jose Sharks will be without two of their leading scorers and one of their depth players Tuesday when they face the Philadelphia Flyers looking to end a seven-game losing streak. Forwards William Eklund and defenseman …

OAKLAND — After an Alameda man allegedly ran a red light, causing a collision that killed the 39-year-old driver in another car, he reportedly fled the scene but then called police to turn himself in. But when he did so, …

To those looking for a fresh start in 2025, avoid getting cold feet before the new year, as National Weather Service meteorologists forecast frigid mornings to continue on the last day of 2024. Braydon Murdock, an NWS meteorologist for the …

SAN JOSE — A second fire in three months has scorched part of a vacant city-owned lot in downtown San Jose that is taking on an increasingly blighted appearance after multiple blazes. The fire broke out in an abandoned residential …

ANTIOCH — A man wanted for allegedly shooting at his girlfriend Saturday evening was arrested Sunday after being spotted driving a vehicle, authorities said. The shooting happened about 6:35 p.m. Saturday in the 4700 block of Knollpark Circle and activated …

SAN FRANCISCO – The instant RaMell Ross finished reading Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Nickel Boys,” he knew he wanted to bring the powerful, truth-inspired story about boyhood, resilience and Jim Crow-era racism to the screen from the viewpoints of …

SAN JOSE — Matthew Muller, who is serving multiple lengthy prison sentences for kidnapping and raping a Vallejo woman in a case that drew international infamy after police wrongly accused the victim of fabricating the ordeal, is now being charged …

The past year was a rough one for sports fans in the Bay Area, to put it mildly. Baseball luminaries died. Teams endured tragedies off the field. Between the lines, they mostly stunk. One club even picked up and left …

In Blake Lively’s high-stakes legal and public relations war against her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni, she gained a major advantage just before Christmas by getting her side of the story broadcast in a 4,000-word New York Times …

It’s been a year on TikTok. The social media video outlet rocketed to 170 million users in the U.S. and one billion worldwide, sharing ideas, products, dance videos and more. Users flocked to topics like food, music, sports and books, …

The Giants find themselves in a precarious situation. They missed out on Corbin Burnes, who reportedly agreed to a six-year, $210 million deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Blake Snell has long since signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Japanese star …

For my latest brewery-centric day trip, I ventured into Coffey Park, the Santa Rosa neighborhood devastated by the 2017 Tubbs Fire, considered at the time the worst wildfire in California history. Some 1,400 homes were destroyed in the fire, but …

January is traditionally a time for reflection and resolution. We greet the new year with promises to ourselves to drop pounds, perhaps, go dry or get fit. But what would happen if our goals were more profound than that? What …

Aragon High School best friends Michelle Tu and Stanislav Kroll couldn’t have known that more than two decades later, they’d start a company together. Today they’re the cofounders of ready-to-drink Daybreak Vietnamese Coffee. After high school, the two San Mateans …

Shonda Scott, the Oakland founder of 12 New Things believes that trying something new every month invigorates the imagination, sparks new interests and just makes life more exciting. Who doesn’t love that?  Whether it’s taking an art class or exploring …

As Oregon’s victory total climbed throughout what became a perfect regular season in Eugene, so did our curiosity. What would it take to beat the Ducks? Was there a weakness to exploit? Or were bad bounces and worse luck the …

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury’s finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room …

By Maureen O’Hare | CNN Sometimes it’s ignorance. Sometimes it’s hitting the airport bar too hard. Sometimes it’s being far from home and seemingly far from consequences. In the post-Covid era, more people are traveling than ever before. Record-breaking numbers …

DEAR JOAN: My daughter has a dog that has been suffering with Cushing’s disease for several years now. She cannot get up on her own, cries when she wants to go out, wants to endlessly drink water and seriously can’t do …

By MARK KENNEDY | Associated Press NEW YORK — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87. Related Articles News …