San Francisco Chronicle

Octel Communications Corp., the leading marketer of voice messaging hardware, has recruited one of Hewlett-Packard Co.`s highest-ranking executives to be president and chief executive officer. Douglas Chance, 48, succeeds co-founder...

A developer who defaulted on multimillion-dollar loans and got favors from Silverado Savings and Loan before it collapsed paid Silverado Director Neil Bush $100,000 a year to be on his...

First there was the quest for Superbaby: the brainchild kid who started talking at 6 months, was writing by 2 and was reading ''Charlotte`s Web'' in kindergarten. Now the schooling...

Lillian Rubin kept reading that the sexual revolution was dead, killed by a universal fear of AIDS, and that everybody had shifted back to a 1950s mentality: nice girls don`t,...

John A. Haeseler, an early movie maker and founder of the Harvard Film Foundation, died Tuesday in Physicians` Community Hospital after a short illness. He was 90. Mr. Haeseler was...

How are we faring in our quest to eat healthier? Have our diets really changed for the better or are we confusing good intentions with actual improvements? Several recent surveys...

The world may not need a $1,295 bassinet, but it has arrived: a rocking, talking cradle that could make an important impact on a baby`s first few months of life....

Saturday night`s all right, all right, unless you happen to be wedded to the network TV business. It seems people will do practically anything on Saturday nights-go to the movies,...

High on a pole overlooking a quiet street on the border of Emeryville and Oakland, Calif., a ravioli pin is getting a second chance at life. No longer locked in...

The Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors gave a pat on the back to one of its janitors for catching a pyromaniac on a train, but then learned, with...