A’s new scouting coordinator forging her own path with Oakland
Haley Alvarez, a 25-year-old Ross native, returned to the A's front office this offseason to become a scouting coordinator.
Haley Alvarez, a 25-year-old Ross native, returned to the A's front office this offseason to become a scouting coordinator.
Elaine Castillo didn’t grow up in the Philippines, but she knows the country well. It’s a place that has occupied her imagination as long as she can remember, and it casts a long shadow over her debut novel, “America Is Not the Heart” (Viking, $27, 416 pages.) The novel’s central character is Geronima “Hero” de […]
Female shooter apparently dead after opening fire at the online giant's San Bruno campus Tuesday afternoon.
An active shooter was reported at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno on Tuesday afternoon.
San Jose City Manager Dave Sykes has selected Rosalynn Hughey to be the city’s next director of the Department of Planning, Building and Code Enforcement. “I am proud to say that Rosalynn excelled through the selection process and I am very appreciative of her commitment to San Jose,” Sykes said in a statement announcing the […]
"I want to get out, I want to bring the troops back home, I want to start rebuilding our nation," Trump said Tuesday during a news conference at the White House with leaders of Baltic nations. He added that "our primary mission" of fighting the Islamic State terrorist group is "almost completed."
Evander Kane will get his first taste of Stanley Cup playoff hockey this spring in his ninth NHL season.
Monta Vista has turned around season
A man who threw a banana peel at Dave Chappelle during a 2015 performance in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is suing the comedian and a man presumed to be his bodyguard.
As Fox News stands by its embattled host, Ted Nugent, an internet conspiracy theorist and Russian bots join those in defending her over the teen Parkland shooting survivor.
"This unfortunate result was not intended by the officers, nor could they have foreseen such a tragic outcome from the use of non-lethal force," District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe wrote in a report made public Tuesday.
There are a number of cool music-related programs, including ones featuring Kronos Quartet and Blonde Redhead as well as documentaries about Joan Jett and M.I.A.
Norman Eisen, Obama White House ethics lawyer and now chair of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington helped prepare this Itemized Proposal to Purchase the Trump Administration for Amazon at a Cheap Price.
The candidates largely agreed on issues like gun control and homelessness.
The study from researchers at Ohio State University finds that fake news likely played a significant role in depressing Hillary Clinton's support on Election Day 2016. The study, which has not been peer reviewed but which may be the first look at how fake news impacted voter choices, suggests that roughly 4 percent of former President Barack Obama's 2012 supporters were dissuaded from voting for Clinton in 2016 by belief in fake-news stories.
Raiders punter Marquette King was released by the Raiders so they could put their money in other areas.
Bruce Munro's Narnia-inspired collection of illuminated art will transform the Saratoga arts center starting in October.
Twin sisters who gained fame after receiving a pioneering surgery for obsessive compulsive disorder were found dead with gunshot wounds on a Colorado roadside.
Although it's not the only digital business exploiting the opaque $1.4 billion political-ad industry, here's a look at how Google is doing it, and why it matters.
The use of what are known as cellphone-site simulators by foreign powers has long been a concern, but American intelligence and law enforcement agencies — which use such eavesdropping equipment themselves — have been silent on the issue until now.
Madison Bumgarner called a potential return to the Giants' rotation in June "a little conservative."
A car landed on the roof of a Hayward area home Tuesday morning and the occupants fled before authorities arrived.
Health-conscious cocktails are de rigueur these days. But are they any good? Would you order another one?
Warriors' Andre Iguodala, Kevon Looney, Shaun Livingston and Omri Casspi will all miss Tuesday's game against Oklahoma City.
Leigh softball team improves to 3-0 in league play