San Mateo

This is no bar bet, it's a lawsuit. Can you get drunk on a flight, then sue the airline for giving you the booze? A husband and wife are suing United Airlines for "negligently" overserving alcohol during a flight from Osaka, Japan, to San Francisco,...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A man who hit his elderly father in the head with a hammer is facing nine-months in jail. 58-year-old Jayantibhai Patel struck his father twice because he thought the 81-year-old had to be hospitalized before a nursing home would accept...

SAN MATEO -- Police have arrested a 19-year-old man they believe is responsible for the recent 'dognapping' of eight pitbull puppies and their mother from a backyard in San Mateo. Tyler Hill was tracked down by police after some of the dogs were...

REDWOOD CITY -- A judge has ruled that a brother and sister should be tried for neglect after it was found they forced their mentally disabled sister to live in an 8-by-12-foot metal shed with a mattress and portable toilet. The siblings were apparently...

SACRAMENTO - The California Republican Party and a Democratic state senator are denouncing an online poster that promoted last week's nationwide "tea parties" as anti-Semitic. The poster promoted the April 15 rally in San Mateo, a Silicon Valley city...

The 13th edition of "Survivor" will have the show's most diverse group of players to date, CBS says. At the start of the game, though, they won't be mingling all that much. After previous editions in which contestants were divided by gender or age,...

Find out about historic and scenic sites as well as programs, fees and directions to California's national parks, monuments and recreation areas: Alcatraz Island, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Ft. Mason Center, Building 201, San Francisco 94123;...

More and more, open enrollment in company-sponsored benefits can be a confusing time, with a plethora of choices and additional responsibility falling on employees. Workers are given a stack of handouts each fall and are asked to choose among medical...

Yesterday, Google Inc. agreed to purchase YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock in a deal that will combine the Internet's largest search engine and its most popular site to watch video. The transaction, which had been widely expected, comes after...

If you need help with your passport, do not e-mail your congressional representative's office. Call. This list of California House members (with their district number) was compiled using the contact information on each representative's website. --------...

About seven to 10 times each month, Art Brown hops on a Metrolink train. As a member of the commuter rail's five-county governing board, he usually carries a bag imprinted with the word "Metrolink." Brown says he does it to attract comments from other...

James E. Swett, a former U.S. Marine Corps pilot who was awarded the Medal of Honor after shooting down seven Japanese bombers in 15 minutes over the Solomon Islands during World War II, died Sunday of congestive heart failure at Mercy Medical Center in...