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Police will be out in force today as members of the Hells Angels pay their final respects to the murdered president of the motorcycle group's San Francisco chapter.

The silver anniversary season of Opera San Jose was launched last weekend with a highly competent rendition of "Eugene Onegin," arguably Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky's greatest opera.

Elizabeth Loren Savusa knows about loss. Her father died last year of diabetes while her mother was doing a five-month stint in prison.

The state's legislative leaders on Sunday announced a breakthrough in California's record budget impasse, potentially ending a stalemate that set a new standard for dysfunction in a Capitol with a long history ...

Fire investigators are looking into what sparked a blaze at a high school in the suburbs east of San Francisco that completely destroyed two classrooms.

Police say a motorist drove onto a soccer field at a park in San Jose, Calif., and ran down three men, killing one and injuring the other two.

Inside the belly of the structural behemoth, more than 300 workers have laid down plumbing and electrical equipment.

Mortgage rates have dropped in the wake of the government's weekend takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in some cases dipping below 6 percent for a 30-year fixed conforming loan.

State highway 85 in Santa Clara County, which runs between Mountain View and south San Jose, will be named the "Norman Y. Mineta Highway" during a ceremony Monday in honor of the transportation expert, ...

A 62-year-old San Jose-based tax preparer and his assistant were sentenced to county jail for aiding and abetting his clients file fraudulent state income tax returns, the Franchise Tax Board announced Friday.

A newly released San Jose Police sketch of the Cambrian Cat Burglar - a man investigators believe is responsible for at least 27 home burglaries since July - almost all while residents were sleeping inside.

Four tree-sitters who ended their occupation of a University of California at Berkeley oak grove this week have pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges.

The four face charges of trespassing and illegal lodging for taking part in the 21-month protest. The group had aimed to stop the campus from cutting down trees to make way for a new athletic training facility.

But after the campus got a court order allowing the construction, workers cut down most of the trees scheduled for removal.

A 38-year-old man fell to his death early Thursday morning in San Francisco after running away from police officers that apparently saw him trying to break into a vehicle.

For the third time this summer, police have arrested a teacher suspected of sex crimes against minors.

It was a Mayors summit meeting in Santa Clara that brought together business and government leaders to figure out how best to tackle the issue of climate change.

The state legislature has passed a landmark bill that would impose a $60 fee on shippers for each 40-foot container that passes through the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach or Oakland and use the money for ...

A 83-year-old Oakland woman who had been missing for two weeks was found dead in the Bayfair Mall in San Leandro Tuesday morning, according to the Alameda County coroner's bureau.

Letter carrier Alan Girard neared the end of his route Oct. 6 when he noticed smoke and an orange glow in an apartment at a senior citizens center.

Apple's CEO Steve Jobs displays a redesigned iPod Nano at Apple's Let's Rock media event in San Francisco, California.

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