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Dear Eric: I started a new job this year at age 58. I am working at a position which is much lower in wages and responsibilities than the la...

DEAR HARRIETTE: The other day, I was feeling spontaneous and decided to go on a date with someone I met recently. It felt like a big move fo...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Our daughter is finishing kindergarten and will start first grade in the fall.Related ArticlesMiss Manner...

SAN JOSE — Patrol officers early Saturday morning stopped the in-progress theft of copper wire from an overhead phone line near San Felipe R...

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Knowledge best toolagainst homelessnessAs a single mother...

By Andrew Dalton | Associated Press“Lilo & Stitch” teamed with Tom Cruise for a monster Memorial Day box office weekend.Disney’s live acti...

Several earthquakes with epicenters beneath the ocean surface rattled the Northern California coastline early Monday.The quakes occurred of...

WEST MONROE, La. — Phil Robertson, who turned his small duck calling interest in the sportsman’s paradise of northern Louisiana into a big b...

LOS ANGELES — When the Lakers traded Anthony Davis to the Dallas Mavericks as part of the three-team deal that brought Luka Doncic to Los An...

The Golden State Valkyries will face the WNBA defending champion New York Liberty Tuesday, but the expansion team might miss out on the bigg...

By Brian Melley and Steve Douglas | Associated PressLONDON — A 53-year-old British man plowed his minivan into a crowd of Liverpool soccer...

The Giants’ bats slept in Monday in their earliest start of the season, leading to a 3-1 loss that opened their three-game series in Detroit...

Robby Krieger danced his way onto the stage to James Brown’s “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag,” stopping to do a little jig in his red, white and...

Later this week, the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten and SEC will reveal the TV networks and kickoff times for the first three Saturdays of the season...

SAN JOSE — BART has restored full service to the fire-hobbled mass transit network by reactivating the San Jose-Daly City line, days after a...

After a wild West Coast Conference tournament run that saw the Saint Mary’s baseball team capture the second league title in school history,...

May 19PETTY THEFT: 11:47 a.m. at Time Out Clothing on North Santa Cruz Avenue. Three swimsuits were stolen.PETTY THEFT: 2:47 p.m. at Xande...

Last week it was career guidance… now it’s time to help new college graduates manage their finances. (This advice can also help those who ar...

DEAR JOAN: I have had success with a fake dead crow in the past, not so with this single bird. I don’t know if it’s a he or her, but there d...

A pair of women from Marin are hoping to launch the county’s first-ever women’s sports bar, and they’re looking for local donations to fund...

San Jose Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky will not turn 38 until October, but he’s already amassed an impressive resume.Warsofsky has won two Ca...

May 30The Hogan Brothers: The East Bay-raised Hogan Brothers have played with leading figures in R&B, funk, hip-hop and Latin music. 7 p.m....

OAKLAND — Those walking by the 17th Street parking garage on Friday morning might have noticed a lonely sandwich board out front that reads,...

Memorial Day began as a tradition of honoring America’s fallen soldiers after the Civil War by placing fresh flowers upon their graves. Orig...

Just weeks ago, nonprofit outreach workers approached Robert Emmons and other unhoused residents living along Autumn Parkway to let them kno...