Federal, state courts and offices Closed Thursday, federal offices open Friday, courts and state offices closedCity and county offices Closed Thursday; many closed FridayBanks, savings institutions Closed Thursday, open FridayPost offices Closed Thursday,...

A small Texas college is challenging the national recognition a team of Stanford biomechanical engineering students has received for their development of a $20 artificial knee for use in the developing world. Earlier this month, Time magazine recognized the...

Gregory Zielesch paid a meth-addled probationer $400 and gave him a .357 Magnum to kill the man who was sleeping with Zielesch's wife, according to a Yolo County jury. But when the hit man killed a California Highway Patrol officer

San Francisco supervisors Tuesday finally got the votes they needed to fund a bailout to protect more than 500 city employees from pay cuts, reassignments or outright layoffs, but in the end, the legislative exercise appears moot. "As mayor, I

Small earthquakes struck both ends of California on Tuesday but no damage or injuries are reported. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-3.9 undersea quake struck at 6:34 a.m. west of San Diego. It was centered 23 miles southeast of

A fatal motorcycle crash has shut down San Francisco's Broadway Tunnel in both directions tonight, with no estimate on when it will reopen, police said. Authorities started receiving calls about the crash shortly before 8 p.m., Officer Boaz Mariles said....

A medical delivery supply driver was killed Monday in Redwood City when she hit a parked construction truck, got out to investigate and was struck by another driver who hit the same truck, police said. "It's pretty unusual," police Sgt.

Uptown Joe's, a new San Francisco restaurant accused of stealing everything from its menu to its employees from the revered but fire-destroyed Original Joe's, will be allowed to continue using the Joe's name, a federal judge ruled Monday. Attorneys for...

A woman who ate death cap mushrooms died in a San Francisco hospital over the weekend, nearly two weeks after she picked the mushrooms in a Lodi city park and included them as an ingredient in dinner, officials said Monday.

Several dozen UC Berkeley students crowded into the Oakland lobby of the University of California headquarters Monday afternoon, demanding an audience with UC President Mark Yudof. They didn't get it. But what followed was an extraordinary, wide-ranging...

For the second time in his political career, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger turned to talk show host Jay Leno to make a major announcement, this time nominating Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria (Santa Barbara County), as California's next lieutenant governor...

Kristen Bedard, 36, was killed in a after she was struck by a suspected drunk driver while walking down a Poway street. According to a 10news report, Bedard was walking north on a sidewalk in the 13700 block of Community