With the flick of his wrists, San Jose defenseman Dan Boyle kept San Jose's streak alive in a physical game against Ken Hitchcock's Blue Jackets. Complete Story...
San Jose police say they have arrested three teens in the shooting of a 12-year-old boy and the stabbing of his 13-year-old friend while they were trick-or-treating on Halloween.
Kent Huskins and Brad Staubitz scored 1:22 apart in the second period, Evgeni Nabokov made 25 saves and the surging San Jose defeated reeling Carolina 5-1 on Sunday.
A spokesman for Southwest Airlines says the carrier has apologized to a mother who was kicked off a plane along with her unruly 2-year-old earlier this week.
The attorney for a police officer shown on video striking an unarmed San Jose State University student with a baton says the student was to blame for the incident.
It sure seemed as though the New York Rangers were on their way to an eighth straight win.
Dany Heatley made quite a first impression on his new fans.
Teddy Purcell scored the tiebreaking goal from behind San Jose's goal line with 5:10 to play, and the Los Angeles Kings blew a four-goal lead before holding off the Sharks 6-4 Tuesday night.
Joe Sakic would typically rather retreat from the spotlight than bask in it.
Mason Raymond started Vancouver's comeback early in the third period and finished it with the shootout winner as the Canucks remained perfect in the preseason with a 4-3 victory over San Jose on Wednesday night.
Patrick Marleau scored a pair of goals, including the game-winner in overtime, and San Jose beat the Phoenix Coyotes 5-4 to win in the Sharks' debut of Dany Heatley on Saturday night.
The San Jose Sharks made the big move that has been expected ever since their best regular season ended with a first-round playoff exit, acquiring disgruntled winger Dany Heatley from the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.
Jeremy Roenick was playing golf when he received a call from San Jose general manager Doug Wilson asking about the possibility of playing for the Sharks.
A San Jose man attacked by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo has been arrested on suspicion of cocaine possession and being under the influence of a controlled substance.
San Jose kicked in an own-goal in second-half injury time, allowing Real Salt Lake to tie the Earthquakes 1-1 on Friday night.
San Jose forward Cornell Glen scored in a 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake on Saturday that ended the Earthquakes' losing streak at five.
An office worker cleaning a fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to the hospital and made many others ill.
Al Montoya and the Phoenix Coyotes ruined what was supposed to be the biggest celebration in San Jose hockey history.
Vandals severed eight fiber optic cables early Thursday in San Jose and another nearby town, leaving thousands of people without cell phone, Internet and landline service, officials said.
A massive telephone outage in Northern California is affecting parts of the state's Silicon Valley, home to many high-tech companies.
Sharks captain Patrick Marleau and high-scoring forward Ryane Clowe expect to return to San Jose's lineup Thursday night for the NHL-leading club's regular-season home finale.
Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews scored in a shootout, and Chicago goalie Nikolai Khabibulin turned away a final attempt by San Jose to give the Blackhawks a 6-5 victory over the Sharks on Wednesday night.
San Jose forward Travis Moen knew the Anaheim Ducks planned to show highlights of his career on the scoreboard during his return to Anaheim.
Sharks defenseman Rob Blake has no broken bones in his injured foot, but the veteran still is expected to miss San Jose's games at Minnesota and St. Louis this week.
San Jose goalie Evgeni Nabokov and defenseman Rob Blake will miss both games on the Sharks' upcoming road trip because of injuries.
Two articles: Video footage of police beating unarmed Vietnamese student likened to Rodney King attack
It happens every month: Millions of American pony up for the gas bill, mortgage or rent payment and real estate taxes--and subsequently watch their bank balances dwindle. That's because housing expenses are the biggest monthly expense most families face.
What to expect from therapy in Silicon Valley
Police in San Jose said a call Wednesday morning tipped authorities off to a disgruntled worker heading to a termination meeting with a loaded handgun and gave officers the warning they needed to prevent what could have been a deadly workplace shooting.
When Hugo Chávez makes a personal appeal to Washington for help, as he did 11 days ago, it raises serious questions about the signals that President Barack Obama is sending to the hemisphere's most dangerous dictator.
excerpt: ""The SJ Police Officers Association hired a PR firm to produce a video that shows Raj Jayadev, activist and founder of Silicon Valley De-Bug, speaking before the council at a May 5 meeting.""
Ex- governor and possibly the next governor of California Jerry Brown has his car vandalized parked right out front his Oakland California home. Currently Jerry serves as California's State Attorney General.
Friends and family of a competitive cyclist are offering a $11,000 reward for information leading to a hit and run driver that injured her Sunday evening as she road along Hwy 9 in Saratoga. Ashley Jackson, 24, is a member of the Alto Velo cycling team.
Nevada defeats San Jose State handily in their final home game of the WAC regular season, making a push towards the WAC tournament. The WAC has been argued that it is only a one seed team to the NCAA tournament, with Nevada's victory they make a push towards a possible second bi …
Lightning struck only once - but 52 cows are dead at an Uruguayan ranch. The newspaper El Pais reports that the cows had pressed against a wire fence during a storm when the lightning bolt struck in the northern state of San Jose.
(10-22-2008) 18:37 PDT -- Fewer kids in Napa County visit the dentist regularly than kids in other California counties. More San Francisco children teeter on the brink of depression than other children do.
In Boulder Creek, California, a man accused of abusing dozens of dogs was arrested in the first week of August 2008.
With financial crisis looming in the federal governement and in the state of California, the impact is also in the local areas of the nation's strongest economic areas. Harry S. Mavrogenes, Special to the San Jose Mercury News, wrote on 07 September 2008,
COUNCILWOMAN CAMPOS GIVES BIRTH, DEFENDS PLAN FROM MATERNITY WARD:
The San Jose Mercury News comments in its editorial section with regards to a proposal made at city hall regarding fast food establishments near schools for youth. The proposal is similar to one already made into law in the city of Los Angeles. The editorial starts...
New age music, sometimes even a whiff of incense, floats from the wood-paneled artist's studio next to a bank of holding cells and a wall of weapon lockers in the basement of the San Jose police department.
Best of the Bay interviews the mayor of San Jose about his solar initiative and explores some of the companies that are leading the pack by going green.
The daughter of a Mongol motorcycle club member, who died after a being zapped with Tasers during a naked, drug-fueled struggle with San Jose police in a motel room a year ago, has sued Police Chief Rob Davis, the city and the company that makes the electric stun guns for $20 mil …
A very informative chart with most of the Bay Area's Private Schools.
Via Ann, this video showing Cindy Chavez, the former vice-mayor of San Jose, discussing gender discrimination in politics, is depressing stuff:
A story that Daniel Scheinman, a senior vice president at Cisco Systems in San Jose, Calif., likes to tell illustrates the cultural divide between Hollywood and his Silicon Valley.
SAN JOSE -- A 47-year-old San Jose woman has pleaded guilty to illegally practicing medicine and other charges after she performed cosmetic surgery operations at her home that went awry, including face lifts, lip plumps and tummy tucks
A Chronicle examination of top salaries in the Bay Area's three biggest cities last year indicates that employee compensation and perks in those cities are similar to - and in some cases more lucrative than - those blamed for pushing Vallejo to the edge of financial doom.
Meet the new director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, fresh from San Jose, California and probably in freezer burn shock at the temperature change. Actually he's a native of Green Bay, frozen tundra territory, and his friends think he's crazy for moving back to the Midwest.
Technology hand-me-downs, repurposed. Another startup in the valley...