San Francisco Chronicle

The story of how engineers spent years trying to build software for Stephen Hawking that would preserve his distinctive robotic voice — based off of technology from 1986.

In Northern California, a monster firestorm became unstoppable almost as soon as it started.

Over the course of nine hours, Cecilia Lam called the police eight times to report an “escalating domestic violence” situation. Officers showed up at her apartment multiple times. So why did she die so senselessly?

Since 1981, AIDS has taken more than 20,000 lives in San Francisco. But what about the men who survived the disease, and continue to struggle on, despite having lost so much of their community?