Santa Clara County

In a move that has drawn praise from nutrition advocates, Jack in the Box has stopped offering toys with meals aimed at children, a leading restaurant industry publication said this week. Nation's Restaurant News reports that the nation's fifth-largest...

Super-fast speed — think Tokyo to L.A. in 2 1/2 hours — isn’t the only cool feature of the Zero Emission Hyper Sonic Transport proposed by EADS. At the Paris Air Show this week, the aircraft manufacturer and Airbus parent......

An amber alert has been issued for a 1-month-old baby girl who was reportedly taken outside a church. Officials say she was abducted from the city of Morgan Hill in Santa Clara County around 2 p.m. Tuesday as the car she was in was at St. Catherine of...

PayPal Inc. is suing Google and two of its executives -- accusing them of stealing trade secrets and poaching employees -- in a move that ups the stakes as the two companies vie for a piece of the fast-growing mobile......

SARATOGA, Calif. -- "The Swell Season" is paying for grief counseling for hundreds of fans who watched in horror as a man jumped 20 feet to his death onto the stage during the band's concert in Santa Clara county last week. The Swell Season was playing...

LOS ANGELES AND SAN FRANCISCO -- When a top-secret prototype of Apple Inc.'s new iPhone went missing recently, the computer giant summoned Silicon Valley's version of the cavalry -- an elite squad whose main mission is investigating crimes against high-...

Full text as Democratic first lady says today's children, especially blacks, may be the first generation to live shorter lives than their parents....

In 2008, 11,773 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. To prevent or curtail drunken-driving fatalities, nearly 1.43 million drivers were arrested in 2007 on suspicion of driving...

Hospitals in Southern California generally charge lower rates to patients than those in the Bay Area, according to an analysis by Kaiser Health News. The computer analysis by Kaiser reporter Jordan Rau found that L.A. County, Orange County and Inland........

Backed by lobbyists for chains such as McDonald’s, a Florida Senate panel this afternoon quietly adopted a measure designed to prevent local governments from passing laws that ban toy giveaways by fast-food restaurants. The Senate Commerce and...

We all know that California's housing boom caused relatively levelheaded people to build, build and build again as easy financing artificially inflated the number of people who could buy homes. Now, we know just how much they built. The Census......

Hewlett-Packard is suing a former executive for allegedly stealing trade secrets before he took a job with HP rival Oracle. Filed Wednesday in Santa Clara County Superior Court, the lawsuit alleged that Adrian Jones, a former HP senior vice president........