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Stanford Law graduate and former Sunnyvale mayor Bill Fernandez gives a free talk on his book "Kaua'i Kids in Peace and War," about his life growing up on Kaua'i in the 1930s and '40s.

Never ask Ted Kim a simple question about beer. If you do, you're in for a discourse on the qualities of craft beer, its history and nuances.

Her mother discovered that she was pregnant after she had broken off a relationship of less than a year.

A Yep, Mrs. Roadshow and I made that trek not too long ago. I don't think our poor Prius has recovered.

Jan Carey of Mountain View follows instructors Gene Esswein, left, and Ellen Murray, right, during the "Roll Up The Rug" social dance class at the Mountain View Recreation center on Monday June 17, 2013.

Ying Ma talks about her experiences after moving from China to Oakland at age ten.

Interested in getting involved with public works projects? The City of Mountain View is seeking applicants for a Citizens Working Group to assist with a feasibility study for the development of the Stevens Creek Corridor.

Nostalgia lines the shelves in Videoscope, Mountain View's last video rental store.

Orchard Supply Hardware, a locally owned business since 1931, said Monday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but will keep operating its iconic name while turning over most of its stores to hardware rival, Lowe's.

Taking a page from the Summer Solstice yoga fest in New York's Times Square, five local yoga teachers will hold a free, public, outdoor yoga session Friday, June 21. Palo Alto yoga teacher Manjiri Subhash, who "grew up around yoga" in India, urges yoga practitioners of all levels to unroll their mats in Rinconada Park from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on the ... (more)

Editor's note: Menlo Park resident Madeline Jhawar is the owner of Italy Beyond the Obvious travel consultancy.

Mountain View police have released a composite sketch of a man whom they believe attempted to break into a home on the 900 block of Boranda Avenue on June 11. In a press release, acting MVPD Lt.

By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Kovio, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent developed by four co-inventors for a "method for modifying and controlling the threshold voltage of thin film transistors."

The Miami rapper simply refuses to leave the dance party, or, for that matter, let anyone else exit.

In the comedy "The Internship," Billy and Nick are watch salesmen who lose their jobs when the company they work for goes out of business.

EMBARGOED UNTIL 8 PM Friday, June 14, 2013. In this supplied photo taken March 1, 2013, at Mountain View, California, a fully inflated test balloon sits in a hangar at Moffett Field airfield.

A high-speed chase through Mountain View turned into a manhunt Thursday night, after the car police were pursuing collided with another vehicle and careened off the road -- crashing into a traffic control box.

The Solar Impulse takes off from St. Louis early Friday morning with Solar Impulse co-Founder and CEO Andre Borschberg at the controls.

Singer Bob Dylan will embark on a 33-date tour of Europe starting in Oslo on October 10 and ending at London's Royal Albert Hall on November 28, a statement on his website said on Friday.

Mountain View, CA, Jun 14, 2013 -- Continuing his international quest to bring together the best minds in big data, Aerospike co-founder and CTO Brian Bulkowski will travel to China to host Aerospike's first Real Time Big Data NoSQL Meetup.