A winter storm that brought a rare white Christmas to parts of the South barreled up the East Coast on Saturday night, with forecasters predicting 6 to 10 inches of snow Sunday for Washington and blizzard conditions for New York City and the New Jersey shore. Read More

Carlos Gonzalez slowly came to. He was almost too weak to turn his head; when he finally did, he saw his mother weeping. He couldn’t understand what she was saying. His body didn’t feel right; when he tried to move it, it failed to obey. With great effort, he tilted his head to look down at it. Only then did he notice that he was he was missing a leg. Read More

This may be cold comfort if you are reading this while stuck on a stalled train, but Muni has actually had dramatically fewer delays in the past six weeks than it did before.September and October were disastrous months for Muni, a period in which light-rail vehicles stalled hundreds of times in The City’s subway tunnels. But Muni leadership said they now have a handle on the persistent breakdowns that were plaguing the system then, and service has been much improved. Read More

The beat will not go on under a proposal to ban raves in California.The Anti-Raves Act of 2011 would ban public events that boom prerecorded music for more than 3½ hours at night, according to legislation introduced by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, on Wednesday. Promoters would be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined $10,000 or twice the receipts for the event, whichever is greater. Read More