It was hard to tell who was more proud at the Lincoln High School graduation on June 9, Carissa Basuini or her grandfather, Los Gatos resident Melvin Richard Basuini.

The Los Gatos Union School District stands to lose $1.473 million because of the state's financial meltdown, but it will apparently have little effect on students or teachers.

Los Gatos resident Ed Kelly was only 17 when he entered the U.S. Navy in 1943. Over the next four years, Kelly would experience everything from the invasion of Okinawa to the testing of atomic bombs at the Bikini Atoll.

LOS ANGELES — Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning actor whose intelligent characterizations on stage and screen made him a star despite his plain looks, died Wednesday, his family said.

Green construction isn't just fashionable anymore — it has become mainstream.Environmentally friendly materials, once thought to be extravagant and out of reach for the average homeowner, are now being used in many architectural plans for single-family homes and commercial buildings.

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday declared a fiscal emergency to address California's deficit and has ordered state offices closed three days a month to save cash.

That's the message from the National Park Service, which also has told Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that California will be blocked from receiving future money from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the leading federal source of funding for parks, if it closes state parks now.

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Authorities and relatives are searching for a 63-year-old Campbell man with severe dementia who wandered off Tuesday night.

Google has quietly dropped a feature that allowed people mentioned in news stories to comment on the articles.

If a building can speak about the company that inhabits it, the 150,000-square-foot office at 1601 S. California Ave. says that Facebook is trying to grow up without growing old. On the other hand, it's in a different world.

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