San Jose Mercury News

Brian Wilson has a request for the Giants when he jogs out for a save situation at AT&T Park. Pump up the volume, please. "Get the crowd into it," Wilson...

Rep. Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress, died Monday after a six-week fight with cancer, his spokeswoman said. Spokeswoman Lynne Weil said Mr. Lantos, 80,...

Former Giants superstar Barry Bonds took his first swing at the government's perjury indictment Wednesday, moving to dismiss the case and claiming the charges are so "vague" that the player...

For former San Francisco Giants superstar Barry Bonds, a man accustomed to controlling his own agenda and fortunes, life is now in the hands of his flotilla of lawyers. A...

The potential pitfalls of home buying don't disappear when the purchase offer has been accepted and the loan has been lined up. As you may have guessed, most of them...

To judge from the images on network TV and corporate advertising, lesbians and gay men share the same demographic niche: affluent, educated, urban -- and usually white. Wrong, wrong, wrong...

The fun begins as soon as the train pulls out of the station. A mariachi band strikes up. Drink orders are taken. The host elicits a few cheers and laughs...

If there were ever a moment the moviegoing public might suffer from a case of pixie-dust poisoning, now's the time. With Hogwarts, hobbits and all manner of hobgoblins haunting theaters,...

If you think of kimchi only as a fiery condiment or garnish, you're missing out. The Korean fermented vegetables, which are soaked in a salt solution to crisp and preserve...

Think of sneakers with global positioning system technology. Or a monitor for a child's room with an infrared light to let parents see in the dark. Even pill-size digital cameras...