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Mutilated peace activist Brian Wilson is being sued by the crew of the Navy munitions train that ran him down as he knelt on the tracks outside of the Concord Naval Weapons Station. — Jan. 12
A mob of rock-throwing kids stoned a Muni bus Sunday night in Visitacion Valley, terrifying three passengers and wrecking 18 windows in the worst of an irregular series of assaults on the No. 15 line. — Feb. 8
Police arrested about 225 demonstrators Monday morning outside the beleaguered Federal Building in the fourth day of protests against U.S. involvement in Central America. — March 21
City officials propose to start rationing water under a plan that would give customers 25 percent less water for 25 percent more money. — April 26
Thousands of undocumented aliens seeking amnesty took the big step to legalize their status in the United States before the door slams closed. — May 4
Most of the best runners in Sunday's Examiner Bay to Breakers are going on to the Seoul Olympics. Most of the rest in the field of an estimated 85,000 are going back to normality — or back to the couches a number of them occupy the 364 days of the year they're not running in the world's largest and craziest foot race. — May 17
A gigantic Safeway warehouse fire in Richmond rains ash and smoke on the area for days. Dozens are out of work. — July 15
President Reagan, saying "we admit a wrong," has signed into law legislation providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans kept in U.S. internment camps during World War II. — Aug. 10
Police Chief Frank Jordan and other city officials said they will spend the weekend examining videotapes of an alleged police attack that left Dolores Huerta, vice president of the United Farm Workers, injured. — Sept. 17
L.A. Dodgers take World Series from Oakland A's, four games to one. — Oct. 21
State Supreme Court blocks implementation of Prop 103 auto-insurance reforms to allow time for insurance-company lawsuits claiming the measure is unconstitutional. — Nov. 10
San Francisco politician and civic leader Roger Boas, 67, who last month pleaded guilty to having sex with teenage prostitutes, was sentenced Friday to six months of manual labor in a sheriff's alternative work program and fined $100,000. — Nov. 18
The parents of Amber Swartz-Garcia, a 7-year-old Pinole girl who disappeared June 3 near her home, and David Collins, father of Kevin Collins, the boy whose kidnapping in San Francisco in 1984 became a national concern, spent Saturday with the Michaela Garecht family using their hard-learned expertise to comfort the grieving family. — Nov. 21
If security is any tighter at San Francisco International Airport as a result of the Pan American Flight 103 crash in Scotland, nobody is saying. Airport and airline representatives declined to discuss reports that more stringent security measures than usual were in effect. — Dec 23