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Mike Mainiero shed 19 pounds, and Mia Gates rediscovered her stunning cheekbones. Images Five friends, all fighting weight gain after 40, had their final weigh-in recently at Fitness 101 gym in Menlo Park after a six-week Thinner Winner challenge, which...

National Accelerator Laboratory employee accused of destroying half a million dollars' worth of research to counteract "negative karma" is back in custody after giving federal authorities the slip roughly four months ago. Silvya Akkamna Oommachen, 32, disappeared on July 29...

Behavioral targeting engine Reedge has just launched a beta test of its service. It’s one of a number of engines that promise to help companies better target services and ads to consumers online. When a consumer waivers on buying something...

San Francisco Baykeeper contends the sewage discharges from San Carlos, Millbrae and the West Bay Sanitary District contain toxic chemicals, bacteria and viruses, "posing a serious risk to fisheries, wildlife habitat and human health." The group says its investigation of...

This blue-collar suburb on the edge of Los Angeles once helped send men to space...The city hopes that the car factory will bring $21 million in city revenues over 15 years, create about 1,200 jobs and help revitalize its reputation...

Carolee Hazard's once-modest goals have ballooned into something much bigger since a random act of kindness over a lost wallet in a Peninsula grocery store. The 43-year-old Menlo Park woman wants to ramp up the initial $93 donation she sent...

Officers responded to what was initially reported as a traffic incident in the area of Bayfront Expressway and University Avenue at around 10:15 p.m., according to Menlo Park police. Arriving officers found a vehicle recently abandoned in mud along the...

The drugstore, a Santa Cruz Avenue fixture since 1947, will be merging with the Safeway pharmacy on El Camino Real effective Friday morning, owner and pharmacist John Celedon said in a statement. "In recent years the practice of pharmacy has...

Monday, police received several 911 calls about a robbery in progress on the 700 block of Pierce Road, police said in a written statement. A male victim at the scene said he had left his home to get something when...