A Santa Rosa motorcyclist was killed Monday morning in a collision that forced the closure of a major intersection next to Coddingtown shopping center.

A tasty weekend brunch spot isnt hard to find in Sonoma County, but dont bother looking for another place like Evelyn Cheathams. No one on the staff of her Santa Rosa cafe gets paid, including herself. And diners arent given checks.

Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday its board has authorized the repurchase of $10 billion in shares.

Seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids or human growth hormone.

The new, second location of Carmens Burger Bar is a bright spot in the battered world of small business sales. More common are tales of owners reeling from depressed business values and buyers who cant get loans.

SAN FRANCISCO — Jose Guillen hit a go-ahead, two-run single in the seventh inning and the Giants beat the Diamondbacks, 9-7, on Sunday after wasting a fine outing by pitcher Matt Cain. Freddy Sanchez added three hits and two RBIs for the Giants, who avoided being swept by the last-place Diamondbacks and pulled within five games of San Diego in the NL West.

A man with a lengthy criminal record was sentenced today to 50 years to life in prison for fatally shooting a Fairfield city councilman in 2008, a slaying that prosecutors called the result of mistaken identity over a $50 drug dispute. Henry Don Williams,...

A man was found slain at his home in Hercules over the weekend, authorities said today. Ricardo Sales, 73, was found by police at his home on the 1100 block of Crepe Myrtle Drive, in between San Pablo Avenue and Interstate 80, at about 3:15 p.m. Saturday,...

Two people have been arrested in the slaying of a man whose body was found over the weekend wrapped in a rug in East Oakland, police said today. The body of Jose Ogo, 64, of Hayward was found in a rug on the 900 block of 89th Avenue at about 9:45 a.m...

I just got back from Bosnia, and the only guns I saw were rusted relics in makeshift museums. Somehow the capital, Sarajevo, managed to emerge from four years of hyperviolent siege with lots of bullet-pocked buildings and mortar casings as objects dart in...

An international panel of scientists says the acclaimed committee studying global warming needs stronger leadership and fundamental changes. Representatives of the worlds science academies have released their report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

Activists from the Appalachian region called on the Obama administration Monday to end the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining, saying it is destroying their land and harming their water quality. Although the administration has set out to curb the...