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When they first heard about the trouble with Sophia, the folks at the Methodist Church headquarters in Nashville didn't know what everyone was getting so excited about. "I've worked for...

Three park ranger police cars converged quietly on the crowded campground in the Yosemite Valley over the Memorial Day weekend, looking for the occupants of a blue Toyota pickup. A...

Joan Mankin and Daniel Macchiarini were jarred into thinking about the future when, after living together a few years, she became pregnant. The two sat down at a bar and...

When the producers of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" wanted to use a romantic Gershwin song in their film, they had to get permission from a general contractor named Mike...

A tsunami of home shopping programs is about to hit cable, taking us one step farther toward interactive TV. Imagine clicking on the tube, finding a home shopping program featuring...

Yosemite National Park's famous Mirror Lake, which is slowly evolving into a meadow, will receive some added protection with a $200,000 project to restore natural habitats. The Yosemite Fund and...

What do Russian President Boris Yeltsin and right-wing extremist Vladimir Zhirinovsky have in common with Chiquita Banana, Apple Computer and Pepsi-Cola? The answer is PBN Co., a San Francisco public-relations...

It looked like an open-and-shut case. Donald Rae Brown was spotted by a police officer breaking into a parked car in San Francisco and walking away with an armful of...

California sophomore All-American Jason Kidd has scheduled a press conference for Wednesday, at which time he is expected to announce his intention to give up his final two years of...

Underwater explorers using two midget submarines claimed to have discovered the wreckage of a paddle-wheel steamer that sank in a wild storm off the far Northern California coast 129 years...