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Ballet dancers perform during the Spring Studio Recital at the Cassand Ballet Studios in Mountain View, California on June 2nd, 2013.

Mississippi's top prosecutor Wednesday threatened to subpoena the search giant Google over what he called its failure to crack down on ads touting unlawful sales of prescription drugs and pirated entertainment.

Comedian Dave Chappelle and HBO's New Zealand-born humorous musical duo Flight of the Conchords have been named as headliners at The Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival, coming to Shoreline Amphitheatre on Sept.

I you've recently watched a YouTube video on your smartphone or a Netflix movie on your tablet, you're not alone.

"I've been doing combative stuff since I was born," says Geordie Rose, leaning back in a chair in his small, windowless office in Burnaby, Canada, as he describes how he has spent most of his life making things difficult for himself.

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.