Stanford, CA News

It's been two years since the ill-fated Fathers' Day when Auguste Leonard Malonga, known as "Casquelourd," died suddenly.3.1

With the upcoming one-hundred year anniversary of the devastating San Francisco Earthquake and in the wake of the 2004 Tsunami, we are still wondering why these cataclysms are still catching humanity by ...3.1

While busy thinking about its future, Hewlett-Packard Co. also is quietly reclaiming its past.2.7

The Terman Middle School PTA is launching a pilot car pool program this fall that could give relief to dozens of families, while also reducing traffic congestion and increasing safety in the campus' ...2.7

Felipe Winsberg, a 10th-grader at Palo Alto High School, grew up mainly unaffiliated with the Jewish community.2.7

STANFORD, CA.-David Gilhooly, who is best known as a ceramic artist, is also a prolific printmaker and draftsman.2.9

Reader Craig Chan wrote that he had frequently seen ground squirrels sitting in various locations on the fence between Interstate 280 and Stanford lands, and asked whether anyone had an explanation.

Here's the bad news: characters in films still smoke. And the good news? It's the bad guys, the failures, the low-lifes who light up when the going gets tough.

STANFORD, Calif. , As an eager freshman in the fall of 2001, Andrew Mo's career trajectory seemed preordained: He'd learn C++ and Java languages while earning a computer science degree at Stanford University, ...2.9

Sixty years ago, Harry Fukuhara was working for the U.S. military in the Philippines, interrogating Japanese prisoners of war.2.7

A moratorium preventing East Palo Alto property owners from turning their apartment complexes into condominiums is set to expire in the middle of this month, leaving the door open for some of the city's rentals ...2.7

Sue Moses has yet to become a grandmother. But every Friday she is a surrogate one to some 60 ... Jones, a Los Altos resident, said her son, now 4 1/2, is healthy.2.7

Scientists at Stanford University have developed a new laser therapy that destroys cancer cells but leaves healthy ones unharmed.2.7

China is likely to let the yuan gain 5 percent against the dollar by 2007, not enough to slow its economy or end U.S. criticism that the nation has an unfair trade advantage, according to a Bloomberg survey.2.2

It's said a picture is worth a thousand words. And, sometimes, great ideas and inspiration.2.7

A Bay Area native will start repairing the underside of the space shuttle Discovery early today in hopes of making it safe enough to fly back to Earth.2.7

STANFORD, CA.-Thomas K. Seligman, the Freidenrich Director of Cantor Arts Center, is pleased to announce a pledge from the Marmor Foundation to donate a collection of contemporary art to the museum over the ...2.7

Heather Lynch would have been 30 in a few weeks. She had bounded through an active life of water polo at Menlo-Atherton High School, lacrosse at the University of California-Berkeley and into a senior manager ...2.7

Erica McLain stood at the head of the runway for her final attempt in the triple jump at last month's U.S. national track and field championships.2.7

STANFORD, CALIF. - There have been many bitter complaints from teachers and principals about the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act - and more specifically about having to "teach to the test" ...2.7

Brazil's exemplary model for fighting AIDS in the developing world is being threatened by pricing practices of three United States pharmaceutical companies: Merck, Abbott and Bay Area-based Gilead.2.9

Waitress Karen Robinson greeted customers Friday morning with tears in her eyes as she broke the news that the Cookbook restaurant in Palo Alto's Town & Country Village shopping center must close on July 31.2.7

STANFORD, CALIF. - Latin Americans can't seem to make democracy work. Ecuador now has its seventh president in nine years.2.7

Phelps will follow up his astounding performance in the Olympic pool - where six of his eight medals were gold - with another eight-event assault at the 11th World Swimming Championships that open here on ...

GIVE BLOOD ... Bay Area blood banks are reporting a serious shortage in the region's blood supply, with the Bay Area only having one-day's supply on hand.2

Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease Valentis is conducting a multicenter, phase II clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of its new ...1.5

Scientists working on the BaBar experiment have identified particle Y for the first time.2.7

HARRY RETURNS . . . The release of the new Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling will trigger another Harry Potter party at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park.2

Photographer Edward Burtynsky does not consider himself an activist, but he knows his pictures have persuasive force.2.7

Carrot cake and cream cheese frosting aren't as inseparable as you might think ... Heather Johnston Fessler of Rancho Santa Margarita in Orange County has fond memories of a chocolate log her mom used to make at Christmastime.2.7

Michael Patrick Partners of Palo Alto, CA, and Portland, OR, has a long history of donating its services, reducing its fees, and hosting fundraising events to help local nonprofits extend their delivery of ...2.7

Ken Kesey is dead and gone and so is the ancient oak that sat in the middle of his old street, Perry Lane.2.7

It's rare for an art museum to engage in discourse about the environment. But the new "Vanishing Worlds: Art and Ritual in Amazonia" exhibit at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center invites viewers to engage in deeper ...1.6

Transmission of infectious gastroenteritis was studied in 936 predominately Hispanic households in ... Epidemiological investigation of a food-borne gastroenteritis outbreak caused by Norwalk-like virus in 30 day-care centres.2.7