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Governor greets Olympic athletes in San Jose
- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was in San Jose on Friday greeting some of the 600 Olympic athletes and coaches expected to pass through the city on their way to the games in Beijing.
Utilities say grid can handle rechargeable cars
- Which draws more juice from the electric grid, a big-screen plasma television or recharging a plug-in hybrid car?
GM, utilities join to study electric car impact
- General Motors Corp. has joined with more than 30 utility companies across the U.S. to help work out electricity issues that will crop up when it rolls out new electric vehicles in a little more than two years.
Conference panelists see car battery breakthrough
- The lithium-ion battery, already a fixture in personal electronic devices, soon will become the answer to high oil prices and environmental concerns as it bulks up to power rechargeable electric vehicles, government, university and industry panelists predicted Monday.
Unemployment rises in Silicon Valley despite gains
- New job figures show unemployment is on the rise in Silicon Valley even though the high-tech hub has added more jobs.
San Jose college professor files suit over firing
- A former adjunct biology professor is suing San Jose City College district for firing her because she told a class about the work of a German scientist who maintains that stress during a mother's pregnancy can cause male homosexuality.
EBay 2Q profit rises 22 percent
- EBay Inc. says its second-quarter profit jumped 22 percent. The company enjoyed strong growth in its e-commerce sites and its PayPal payments service.
California firefighters get help from NASA drone
- Fire crews battling nearly 300 blazes burning across California are getting help from a pilotless plane that transmits real-time images of hot spots and flare-ups to commanders in the field.
- Fire crews battling nearly 300 blazes burning across California are getting help from a pilotless plane that transmits real-time images of hot spots and flare-ups to commanders in the field.
Fire moves away from Big Sur, but caution doesn't
- A large wildfire in a national forest spread farther away from the storied coastal town of Big Sur on Monday but forced residents of another community to stay away from their homes for a third day.
- A large wildfire in a national forest spread farther away from the storied coastal town of Big Sur on Monday but forced residents of another community to stay away from their homes for a third day.
Sharks re-sign C Marcel Goc
- The San Jose Sharks re-signed restricted free agent center Marcel Goc to a one-year contract Monday.
Some fire evacuations still in place in California
- A massive wildfire in the Los Padres National Forest continued spreading northward and eastward Monday, relieving the danger to the storied coastal town of Big Sur but forcing residents of another community to stay away from their homes for a third day.
Officials: blazes mark 'single largest fire event'
- Officials say the wildfires that have been burning in California for the past three weeks have blackened more acreage than the devastating series of fires in October 2003.
Calif. blazes called state's largest 'fire event'
- Officials say the recent California wildfires have burned more area than a devastating series of blazes in October 2003.
- Officials say the recent California wildfires have burned more area than a devastating series of blazes in October 2003.