San Jose held its spot as one of the most affluent large cities in America in 2007, while the earnings gap between working men and women narrowed to its smallest margin ever, according to new data.

• Silicon Valley's middle-class squeeze

Railroad police and park rangers found a 17-yearold boy dead in the desert after arresting several suspects in a train burglary in the Kelso-Cima area Saturday night.

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Stephen Manley has received a statewide award for his work in developing unique drug and mental health courts over the past decade.

There were also no delays at the Mineta San Jose International Airport, said spokeman David Vossbrink.

Major League Baseball reversed its long-standing opposition to instant replay and will allow umpires to check video on home run calls in series that start Thursday, a person familiar with the announcement told The Associated Press.

Now that computer programmer Hans Reiser has been convicted of murdering his estranged wife, the question of whether a Juvenile Court judge had the power to order the couples children to return to the United States from Russia is moot, a state appeals court...

The City Attorneys Office has reached a tentative settlement with the parents of a Seattle man who plunged to his death from a Nob Hill rooftop in 2006 during a rescue attempt by a San Francisco fire lieutenant, court records show. The settlement in the...

Although U.S. home prices fell faster than ever in the second quarter, the rate of acceleration slowed in June, according to a closely watched index. Experts hailed the slight deceleration as a harbinger of an eventual turnaround in the dismal real estate...

A Foster City man has pleaded no contest to elder abuse for hitting his father in the head with a hammer because he mistakenly thought the 81-year-old man had to be hospitalized before he could be admitted to a nursing home. Jayantibhai Patel, 58, entered...

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama delivered a passionate and personal introduction of her husband, Barack Obama, on Monday night, saying he wants to lead a nation that will listen to our hopes instead of our fears. Each of us also comes here tonight by way...

The thousands of Democrats on their feet Monday night in the Pepsi Center, cheering as their eyes welled with tears, knew they were witness to a last great page, written as they watched, of their most cherished icon, Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts...