2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (174+ words) The Mercury News The City of Milpitas has appointed John E. Hall as its housing official. Hall’s first day on the job was Sept. 8. His role is to help advance the city’s efforts to expand housing opportunities and promote housing stability…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (693+ words) Mixologist Erica Presto has made a career of shaking things up. She worked at downtown San Jose bars like Paper Plane and Alter Ego, and also at Oak & Rye in Los Gatos, before coming to Silos in Morgan Hill, a…...

23+ hour, 27+ min ago   (250+ words) Today is Sunday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2026. There are 109 days left in the year. On Sept. 13, 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. In…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (578+ words) By Volodymyr Yurchuk and Elise Morton | Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Russian strikes killed eight civilians and wounded dozens of other people in Ukraine, local officials said Saturday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that sending European troops into Ukraine would…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (423+ words) Inflation cooled slightly in the Bay Area in August, but gasoline prices skyrocketed in the region, a government report released Friday shows. The Bay Area inflation rate rose 3.4% over the one-year period that ended in August, less than the 3.8% annual…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (444+ words) By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN The committee’s chairman, Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, sent a letter Monday to Attorney General Todd Blanche requesting records related to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s controversial strategy of monitoring — yet not…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (502+ words) DEAR MISS MANNERS: I attended a dinner party hosted by a couple who are new friends to me. The evening was lovely, save for one glaring issue: The hosts were constantly sniping and digging at each other. Occasionally, this appeared…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (428+ words) While the images of squalor, muck and the dirt-poor peasants cast “The Uprising” firmly in 14th-century England, the discontent and outrage fueling practically every scene in Paul Greengrass’ tremendous new film sounds a strikingly contemporary chord. Greengrass taps into these…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (702+ words) Federal prosecutors are moving to seize a Hemet ranch allegedly owned by a fugitive identified by authorities as the suspected leader of one of Mexico’s most powerful and violent drug cartels. A federal civil forfeiture action filed in July by…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (315+ words) OAKLAND — A local murder defendant accepted a plea deal that avoided criminal liability directly related the homicide, ending his case months after a jury was unable to convict or acquit him, court records show. Marco Leiva-Saucedo, 23, was convicted only of…...