The Federal Transit Administration will provide $900 million to extend San Francisco's rapid transit rail line from the Bay Area into the fast-growing Silicon Valley, the Department of Transportation announced Monday.
A federal jury on Thursday found in favor of five San Francisco Bay Area transit police officers -- including one convicted in a high-profile shooting -- accused of violating a man's civil rights during a 2008 altercation.
A new policy proposed Wednesday by the Bay Area Rapid Transit system would allow disruptions of cellular phone service for commuters only when there is a threat to human safety or possible widespread disruption of service.
Police arrested two people Monday night in the latest round of protests in San Francisco against the Bay Area Rapid Transit system and its policies.
San Francisco's transit system board agreed Wednesday to put together a formal policy on when cell-phone service can be cut off to commuters, in response to widespread complaints and recent protests.
Police alternately closed and reopened commuter train stations in downtown San Francisco Monday after demonstrators gathered to protest recent shootings by the train system's police officers.
Board members of San Francisco's rapid transit system will convene a special meeting next week to discuss the controversial decision this month to cut off cell service in selected stations.
A hacker publicly posted Wednesday the home addresses and other information of all 102 police officers with San Francisco's Bay Area Transit system, the second hacking incident against one of its websites since Sunday, a spokesman said.
A self-proclaimed hacker shares his story and reflects on the meaning of the term. CNN's Dan Simon reports.
The hacking group "Anonymous" took credit for an online attack targeting San Francisco's embattled transit system.
Members of a well-known hacking group -- according to a statement and Twitter messages -- took credit Sunday for an online attack targeting San Francisco's embattled transit system.
Transit officials in San Francisco reopened all downtown subway stations Monday evening after successively opening and closing them to stem the threat of spreading protests.
Hundreds gathered at several San Francisco BART stations to protest officials shutting down cell phone service.
Protesters close a San Francisco subway station, angry about a transit police officer shooting a man. KTVU reports.
Protesters shut down a San Francisco subway station Monday, angry about a transit police officer shooting a drunk man at a station earlier this month.
A 2-year sentence for a BART officer convicted of manslaughter brings protesters to the streets of Oakland, California.
Oakland, California, police Friday moved to stop unruly marchers upset at a two-year sentence for a former transit police officer convicted in the killing of an unarmed man, the chief said.
Dueling rallies took place Monday involving a former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed passenger.
A man was shot and killed Saturday in Oakland, California, during a confrontation with Bay Area Rapid Transit officers and Oakland police, police spokesman Jeff Thomason said.
Oakland police say several attemps to subdue a knife-weilding man with a Tazer failed.
Oakland prepares for expected protests in the case against a white BART officer accused of killing an unarmed black man.
The fate of a former police officer could be decided Wednesday as a jury resumes deliberations in a racially charged California trial.
Jury deliberations in a racially charged murder trial of a white former transit police officer accused of killing an unarmed black man al in Oakland, California, were postponed Tuesday because of a sick juror.
Amateur video shows Bay Area Rapid Transit police subduing Oscar Grant just before he was shot in 2009. (No audio.)
Jurors wrapped up deliberations Friday and will continue next week in the racially charged murder trial of a white former police officer in Oakland, California, accused of killing an unarmed black man.
Jury selection begins Wednesday in the case of former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle who is accused of fatally shooting an unarmed man on a California train platform on New Year's Day last year.
A five-year-old girl who lost her father in a California subway shooting will get a $1.5 million settlement.
Officials have agreed to pay $1.5 million to the daughter of a man fatally shot in the back by a transit police officer on New Year's Day 2009 in Oakland, California.
Police from California's Bay Area Rapid Transit system have begun questioning witnesses to a confrontation that led to a BART police officer shoving an unruly man into a glass window, a top official said Monday.
CNN's Don Lemon talks with spokesman Linton Johnson about a scuffle between a police officer and a passenger in West Oakland, California.
An Oakland, California-area transit police officer was captured on video forcing an unruly man into a heavy-duty glass window, which shattered, during an arrest at a passenger station.
It's a good time to have an iPhone, be moderately geeky and live in New York.
Authorities are taking steps to prevent the San Francisco Bay Bridge from failing after discovering a crack.
Repair work on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will continue nonstop into the weekend and the bridge may reopen Monday, but officials were making no promises Friday.
Repairs on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge should be complete by Friday morning, three days after pieces of steel from the bridge fell onto the structure's roadway, a top transportation official said Thursday.
Officials warned Wednesday that the bridge linking the California cities of San Francisco and Oakland will likely remain closed Thursday morning, promising more delays for Bay Area commuters.
President Obama expressed what many Americans feel regarding the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates -- that the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police responded "stupidly."
President Obama expressed what many Americans feel regarding the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates -- that the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police responded "stupidly."
The family of a man slain by a former transit police officer filed a $50 million lawsuit Monday against officers involved in the New Year's Day shooting, the family's attorney told CNN affiliate KTVU.
The FBI has opened an investigation into an undisclosed incident from 2000 involving an Oakland Police Department commander, a department spokesman said Friday.
A former police officer for the Bay Area transit system pleaded not guilty Thursday in the New Year's Day shooting of a passenger at an Oakland rail station.
Police in Oakland, California, try to control riots sparked by a transit officer's shooting of an unarmed suspect.
The former police officer accused of shooting an unarmed suspect at a commuter train station has been arrested.
The former transit police officer accused of shooting an unarmed man at a California train station went to Nevada with his family "to clear his mind" after receiving death threats, his lawyer said Wednesday.
Protests over the shooting of a man killed at a BART station in California turned violent.
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