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The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout the state from the Sacramento area and The lost coast south to Santa Barbara County.

It was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H.

de Young.

The paper is currently owned by the Hearst Corporation, which bought it from the de Young family in 2000.

The San Francisco Bay Area (referred to locally as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California.

The region encompasses the major cities and metropolitan areas of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland, along with smaller urban and rural areas.

The Bay Area's nine counties are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma.

Home to approximately 7.65 million people, the nine-county Bay Area contains many cities, towns, airports, and associated regional, state, and national parks, connected by a network of roads, highways, railroads, bridges, tunnels and commuter rail.

The combined statistical area of the region is the second-largest in California (after the Greater Los Angeles area), the fifth-largest in the United States, and the 43rd-largest urban area in the world.

Breaking news, interchangeably termed latebreaking news and also known as a special report or special coverage or news bulletin, is a current issue that broadcasters feel warrants the interruption of scheduled programming and/or current news in order to report its details.

Its use is also assigned to the most significant story of the moment or a story that is being covered live.

It could be a story that is simply of wide interest to viewers and has little impact otherwise.

Many times, breaking news is used after the news organization has already reported on the story.

When a story has not been reported on previously, the graphic and phrase "Just In" is sometimes used instead.

The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball franchise based in San Francisco, California.

Founded in 1883 as the New York Gothams, and renamed three years later to the New York Giants, the team eventually moved to San Francisco in 1958.

The Giants compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division.

The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California.

The Warriors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division.

The team was established in 1946 as the Philadelphia Warriors based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a founding member of the Basketball Association of America (BAA).

In 1962, the franchise relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area and was renamed the San Francisco Warriors.

In 1971, the team changed its geographic moniker to Golden State, California's state nickname.

Since 1972, the team's home court has been the Oracle Arena in Oakland.

The team is nicknamed the "Dubs.".