The crash happened around noon just east of Grand Avenue, the CHP reported.

Seniors fretted today to South Bay politicians about zooming traffic at a busy San Jose intersection where two elderly church-going friends were killed over the weekend and offered suggestions on how to make the area less deadly.

UC announced today that Wyatt "Rory" Hume is set to start as provost of the United Arab Emirates University on Sept. 1. The school has nearly 15,000 students.

Betty Cooper poured out her sadness and anger to the court, documenting the betrayal of Horacio "Jo Jo" Gaviola.

Worry not, Apple lovers. The blaze that damaged a building on the tech giant's Cupertino campus Tuesday evening may have sparked quite a commotion, but apparently won't cause a shortage of iPods, iPhones or laptops.

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Police arrested a San Jose high school teacher Tuesday afternoon on suspicion he tried to arrange a meeting with a teenage girl he'd met on the Internet.

A gunman shot and killed the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party on Wednesday before being shot and killed after a 30-mile chase. Bill Gwatney, 49, died four hours after the shooting near the state Capitol. The suspect, identified only as a 51-year-old...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted Sen. Joe Lieberman today for making what she called totally irresponsible remarks about Democrat Barack Obama, which she warned could prompt Senate Democrats to strip him of his committee chairmanship. In a wide-ranging...

Taliban fighters with assault rifles shredded a U.S. aid groups SUV with dozens of bullets Wednesday, killing three Western women and their Afghan driver amid an escalating militant onslaught against humanitarian workers in Afghanistan. The ambush of two...

The Bush administration demanded Wednesday that Russia end all military activities in neighboring Georgia and dispatched U.S. aid to devastated Georgians. This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia where Russia can threaten a neighbor, occupy a...

Firefighters worked until Wednesday morning to extinguish a three-alarm blaze on the top floor of an Apple computer office building in Cupertino, a fire captain said. The fire broke out around 10 p.m. Tuesday in the area of a heating and air conditioning unit...

Authorities in Denver say they have found about a pound of highly toxic sodium cyanide in a hotel room where a mans body was discovered. Police say foul play is not suspected and FBI spokeswoman Kathy Wright said Wednesday there was no apparent connection to...