Tech giant Hewlett-Packard today confirmed that it is in advanced discussions with Electronic Data Systems to acquire the Texas-based company, and the news sent EDS stock shooting upward today.

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San Jose firefighters and paramedics will team up with the city's libraries next week as part of a national emergency medical services campaign called "EMS: Your Life is Our Mission.

NEW YORK - Jimmy Fallon's kindergarten yearbook at St. Mary of the Snow in Saugerties, N.Y., listed him as "most likely to take over for David Letterman.

In an annual rite of spring, nearly half a million Santa Clara County homeowners are receiving their annual property assessment notices, telling them what the county assessor thinks their homes are worth.

A mentally disabled man who was missing since Thursday while on a field trip with his group home in San Francisco's Japantown was found today and is now in critical care at a hospital.

LOS ANGELES - The coyote was limping as it approached a girl in a sand box at a public park - but it was still dangerous.

Santa Rosa police search for a man who allegedly killed his girlfriend Sunday, then drove to Ukiah where he beat up her mother.

NorCal teen and her beau killed in Chester. Her brother, after getting the bad news, is critically injured in car crash.

Mentally Disabled Man Turns Up

San Bruno resident who vanished during a group home's trip to S.F. last week is in the critical care unit at St. Francis Hospital.

Fremont's Omeed Aziz Popal, 31, accused of running down and trying to kill pedestrians in S.F., enters a not guilty plea.

Palo Alto computer maker is reportedly close to buying the information technology services firm for about $12 bil.

With California facing as much as a $20 billion deficit, there will be no easy way for Gov. Schwarzenegger to fix the problem.