A 15-year-old Analy High School sophomore remained hospitalized in critical condition Monday with head injuries suffered when he was hit by a pickup while riding his bike across Highway 116.

Retailers are pumping still more energy this year into trying to get shoppers to loosen their purse strings early for Christmas with sparkly ornaments, holiday music and special prices. In July.

Andy Schleck lost the overall lead in the Tour de France to defending champion Alberto Contador on Monday after suffering a disastrous mechanical problem in a 15th stage won by Thomas Voeckler.

A Cloverdale man driving in Lake County Sunday afternoon drifted his motor home into oncoming traffic, causing a fatal crash, the CHP reported.

Just three years after opening his first Latino food market in Santa Rosas Roseland neighborhood, Juan Gamino has expanded a few miles north. At 31, Gamino has quickly become a major player in a "niche market" that is not so niche anymore.

SAN FRANCISCO — Ike Davis doubled home the go-ahead run in 10th inning after the Mets wasted a two-run lead in the ninth, and New York beat the Giants, 4-3, Sunday to avoid a four-game sweep.

For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a womans chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa. Scientists called it a breakthrough in the long quest for a tool to help...

Two heavy hitters on the world health stage _ Bill Clinton and Bill Gates _ called Monday for a more efficient fight worldwide against the AIDS virus. In separate speeches at an international AIDS conference in the Austrian capital, the former American...

State health officials want women in their childbearing years and seniors to get immunized against whooping cough as Californias epidemic grows. As of July 13, at least 1,496 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, have been found statewide, a fivefold...

A Virginia man in the Bay Area for a job interview was shot and killed in downtown Oakland during an apparent robbery, police said today. Jing Hong Kang, 45, of Fairfax, Va., was shot near the corner of 19th and Webster streets at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday,...

An 81-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman were found shot to death in a San Rafael hotel in an apparent murder-suicide, police said today. Workers at the Four Points by Sheraton at 1010 Northgate Drive found the two at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday, police...