Hewlett-Packard shares surged after the Palo Alto tech giant said its board of directors authorized the company to buy $10 billion worth of its own stock. Interim CEO Cathie Lesjak said HP will buy $3 billion in shares this quarter.

The 20-year-old man, who used to live in Oakland, was standing with friends when the shooting happened Sunday night.

MERCED -- An 8-foot-tall statue now stands in a Merced park in honor of Steven Stayner, known for escaping his captor as a teenager and rescuing another young victim in 1980.

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VISALIA -- The gunman in a fatal shooting of a Mormon church official in Central California was a former member of the congregation who felt wronged when a bishop "shunned him to hell" in 1988, his younger brother said today.

VALLEJO -- One of two men convicted in the 2008 gunshot slaying of young Fairfield City Councilman Matt Garcia was sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison this morning.

Andrew Barrientos, 20, of Union City, who was arrested within feet of the U.S.-Mexico border Saturday night, is not expected to be brought back to the Bay Area until Thursday at the earliest.

Today: Apple could be introducing new iPods this week, according to several tech blogs. Plus: Intel is buying Infineon's smartphone chip unit. Global chip sales were up in July. HP plans to buy billions of dollars worth of its stock.

A 31-year-old year old man already in jail in a burglary case has been charged with assaulting and robbing a woman in a Gilroy Outlets restroom in April.

A man with a lengthy criminal record was sentenced today to 50 years to life in prison for fatally shooting a Fairfield city councilman in 2008, a slaying that prosecutors called the result of mistaken identity over a $50 drug dispute. Henry Don Williams,...

A man was found slain at his home in Hercules over the weekend, authorities said today. Ricardo Sales, 73, was found by police at his home on the 1100 block of Crepe Myrtle Drive, in between San Pablo Avenue and Interstate 80, at about 3:15 p.m. Saturday,...

Two people have been arrested in the slaying of a man whose body was found over the weekend wrapped in a rug in East Oakland, police said today. The body of Jose Ogo, 64, of Hayward was found in a rug on the 900 block of 89th Avenue at about 9:45 a.m...

I just got back from Bosnia, and the only guns I saw were rusted relics in makeshift museums. Somehow the capital, Sarajevo, managed to emerge from four years of hyperviolent siege with lots of bullet-pocked buildings and mortar casings as objects dart in...

An international panel of scientists says the acclaimed committee studying global warming needs stronger leadership and fundamental changes. Representatives of the worlds science academies have released their report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

Activists from the Appalachian region called on the Obama administration Monday to end the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining, saying it is destroying their land and harming their water quality. Although the administration has set out to curb the...