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Mexico— Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun. The...

The Supreme Court on Monday takes up this fundamental question in patent law. The answer holds billion-dollar implications for the US economy. The US Supreme Court on Monday takes up the most fundamental question in patent law: Which innovations deserve...

Marilyn Wann is an author and weight diversity speaker in Northern California who has a message for anyone making judgments about her health based on her large physique. “The only thing anyone can accurately diagnose by looking at a fat...

Jon Baker from Redwood City e-mailed The Chronicle to report that about the same time, he saw "a small but very bright white fireball falling from the sky at a steep angle ... leaving a trail behind of smoke and...

Sunday,  November 8, 2009 3:48 AM Veterans Day closings On Wednesday: • Mail will not be delivered. • Parking meters in Columbus will be enforced. • County, state and federal offices will be closed. • Columbus city offices will be...

Henry Santos, 24, is wanted on felony charges of violating probation and robbery with a firearm. He was born June 27, 1985, and has black hair and brown eyes...His last known address was on Cherry Road in suburban West Palm...

As Styx’s “Mr. Roboto” played in the background, Leeroy Jenkins IV went arm-to-arm and wheel-to-wheel with Bender Bending Rodriguez. They methodically chased each other’s balloons over a carpeted arena in Western Kentucky University’s Engineering & Biological Sciences Building...

The National Weather Service has confirmed it was a tornado that tore through a coastal area of Lincoln City in northwestern Oregon, damaging about a dozen homes...The weather service says 11 homes, three cars and three decks were damaged...Jim Jenneke...