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The Bellarmine baseball team had plenty of momentum coming into its Central Coast Section Division I playoff opener on Saturday at Los Gatos...

By Steve Brooks | Bay City NewsEarly one Monday morning in May, Vincent O’Bannon was dropped off outside the gates of San Quentin Rehabilit...

WASHINGTON D.C. — Kyle Harrison allowed two earned runs over four innings in his first start of the year, but the left-hander took the loss...

SARATOGA — When it comes playoff time, it doesn’t matter how you score. Just that you do it. After all, they typically don’t ask how a team...

WASHINGTON D.C. — Camilo Doval didn’t feel any emotions in his return to Nationals Park. “None,” he said. But the story of Doval’s major-lea...

CANNES, France (AP) — French authorities believe arson may have played a role in a power outage Saturday in southeast France that threatened...

The offseason is definitely not the slow season as yet another week delivered news impacting both the Pac-12 legacy schools and other univer...

Green Day finally made its BottleRock Napa Valley debut, delighting tens of thousands of fans with a 100-minute headlining set filled with b...

A dozen people were injured when a tree fell on a Diablo Valley College football field during a graduation commencement ceremony Friday even...

After Friday’s impressive 82-73 road win over the Los Angeles Sparks, the Golden State Valkyries have now won consecutive games for the firs...

By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.orgIn submitting her updated budget proposal in March, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs lamented the rising costs of the...

The Stanford Theatre is going back to the silent era for a week of films June 9-13 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the iconic movie pa...

Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-San Jose, lashed out at President Donald Trump’s cuts to programs combating climate change on Friday in Pacifica, where...

As they have for more than 100 years, thousands of visitors will head out to Santa Cruz’s beaches and famous wharf over Memorial Day Weekend...

Climate change has thrown insurance markets into dysfunction, and the situation is about to get more dire. As the epicenter of a global insu...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Mark Ballas, 39; John C. Reilly, 60; Priscilla Presley, 80; Bob Dylan, 84.Happy Birthday: Distance yourself f...

Dear Eric: I was a latch-key kid in the ’70s, no father, working mom of three kids. No one was ever there to read me a story, watch me make...

The Trump administration’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship is a serious challenge to the 14th Amendment, which enshrined a r...

DEAR HARRIETTE: Before my boyfriend and I were an item, he and his childhood crush dated for almost 10 years and had two children together....

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My mother is a very sweet and kind grandmother to my 3-year-old girl. She always has gifts when we visit, asks for new pi...

Today is Saturday, May 24, the 144th day of 2025. There are 221 days left in the year.Today in history:On May 24,1883, New York’s Brooklyn...

LIVERMORE — All Kaci Norton could do was watch. “Very nerve-wracking in the dugout,” Livermore’s starting pitcher said. “Kind of sitting th...

PLEASANTON — Foothill broke the game open with a six-run fourth inning and went on to a 10-4 win Friday over Benicia in a North Coast Sectio...

There will be a new North Coast Section and NorCal Division I baseball champion this season.Defending champ Granada bowed out of the sectio...

The Golden State Valkyries finally found their groove. After struggling to get anything going offensively in their first two games, the Val...