VMware, the Palo Alto maker of virtualization and 'cloud computing' technology, intends to buy two software makers: Los Gatos-based TriCipher and Irvine-based Integrien.

Police arrested a group of four teens on suspicion of armed robbery after the quartet purloined personal property from two residents before crashing their car into a house during a likely botched attempt at a third robbery, police said.

Laurent Fignon, the Frenchman who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and lost to Greg LeMond in 1989 in the race's closest finish, died Tuesday of cancer.

INDIANAPOLIS -- A 13-year-old motorcycle racer with ties to Santa Cruz died Sunday after falling off his bike and getting run over by another motorcycle at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

AMSTERDAM -- Dutch prosecutors say two Yemeni citizens who arrived in Amsterdam on a flight from the United States are suspects in a conspiracy to commit a terrorist act.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fly-by-night exterminators.

The Santa Clara County medical examiner's office has identified the victim of a fatal crash on northbound U.S. Highway 101 south of Gilroy early Friday morning as Manuel Palma, 65, of San Leandro.

Singletary said he would have trust in Alex Smith's understudy eventually

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Federal officials urged U.S. residents to prepare for possible evacuations and islanders in the Turks and Caicos hunkered down in their homes Tuesday as powerful Hurricane Earl howled over open seas toward the East Coast of the U.

A small fire at a county building in San Jose prompted the evacuation of employees this morning, after someone smelled an 'electrical odor' and spotted smoke on the third floor of the building, said a San Jose fire captain.

Hours before addressing the nation, President Barack Obama told U.S. troops just back from Iraq that his speech outlining the withdrawal of combat forces is not going to be a victory lap nor a cause for celebration. Theres still a lot of work that weve...

Five more American troops were killed in action in Afghanistan on Tuesday, ending the month with a spike in bloodshed that has claimed the lives of 19 U.S. service members in only four days. The U.S. death toll for August stood at 55 _ three-quarters of them...

A Qantas Airways flight made an emergency landing at San Francisco International Airport early today after an engine failure in midair punched a hole in the external casing, an incident that one expert called extremely rare. Qantas Flight 74, a Boeing 747...

Police say a California doctor apparently tried to get into the home of the man she had been dating by sliding down the chimney. Her decomposing body was found there days later. Police Sgt. Mary DeGeare says investigators do not suspect foul play in the death...

A powerful Hurricane Earl threatened to sideswipe much of the East Coast just ahead of Labor Day, worrying countless vacationers who planned to spend the traditional last week of summer at the beach. The Federal Emergency Management Agency warned people along...

A divisive plan to build a casino near the site of the Civil Wars tide-turning Battle of Gettysburg is in the mold of many other communities that have successfully meshed gambling with historical tourist destinations, the developer told state regulators...