Businessman Paul Garcia is accused of ordering Achilli's killing and paying for it. Two other men involved in the alleged murder-for-hire plot are also on trial.

A breezy practice before a meaningless game disintegrated into a prolonged shouting match between two of the 49ers' biggest stars Wednesday.

Free agent helped oust San Jose from Stanley Cup Playoffs last season

LIVE OAK -- An older couple and their adult son were unaware one bedroom of their Live Oak home was on fire until firefighters ordered them out of the house Tuesday evening, according to Central Fire Protection District spokesman Mike DeMars.

dpollak@mercurynews.comThe voice and face of Sharks' ownership is about to change.Greg Jamison is stepping down as the CEO and president of Silicon Valley Sports and Entertainment.

Greenpeace said about 500,000 Facebook users have urged the world's largest online social network to abandon plans to buy electricity from a coal-based energy company for its new data center in Oregon.

Federal regulators accuse the clothing retailer of denying a job at its Great Mall store to a Muslim woman because she wanted to wear religious head scarf at work.

Target will begin selling Facebook Credits gift cards, giving players a new way to get virtual cash to buy goods within 'FarmVille,' 'Mafia Wars' and other games on the Palo Alto social networking site.

Opening day is Sept. 9

Today: Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows a new lineup of iPods, plus upgraded versions of iTunes and Apple TV. Plus: Hewlett-Packard, Facebook. And: Silicon Valley tech stocks surge.

A man upset with the Discovery Channels environmental programming took several people hostage at gunpoint at the companys headquarters Wednesday while wearing canisters strapped to his body, officials said. Police were negotiating by phone with the gunman,...

The bodies of two women were found in a Vallejo home filled with explosive materials, deepening the mystery into a string of East Bay slayings that culminated in the shooting death of a suspect by California Highway Patrol officers, authorities said today...

The parents of a man who died after a Sonoma County sheriffs deputy stunned him with a Taser has filed a federal lawsuit against the manufacturer of the shock weapon. The complaint comes the same week a Marin County man filed suit against the sheriffs...

The California Supreme Court today declined to accept San Francisco Supervisor Michela Alioto-Piers request to review her legal bid to run for re-election in November - a decision that effectively ends her campaign. The ruling, posted on the courts website,...

President Obama declared an end Tuesday to the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, saying it is time to turn the page on that war, and promised to stick to his timeline for drawing down troops in Afghanistan in July. The rare televised Oval Office address, only...