Mountain View News

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Caltrain at the San Antonio station in Mountain View this evening, a transit agency spokeswoman said.

Prometheus Real Estate Group has hired a firm to gather signatures in support of a controversial apartment development at Minton's Lumber and Supply - a development which many neighbors oppose.

Dozens of grown-ups dressed in Santa Claus garb are coming to downtown Mountain View this Saturday evening, for no real reason other than to cavort in funny outfits while drinking and singing silly songs.

From his home office on a Los Gatos cul-de-sac, Mark Coker is part of a digital movement ruffling the pages of the publishing industry, helping to speed readers' transition from words in print to words on a screen.

Two upcoming shows - a Christmas concert at St. Athanasius Church and a "Winter Fairy Tale" ballet at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts - promise to capture the spirit of the holidays for local residents.

A 21-year-old man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of exposing himself at a middle school in Mountain View earlier this month and possessing child pornography.

Bay Area law-enforcement agencies Friday are kicking off a winter-holiday crackdown on drunk drivers this week by stepping up patrols and checkpoints throughout the region.

Authorities are looking for whoever threw a chunk of asphalt onto a California Highway Patrol car in Mountain View on Thursday, shattering a rear window and startling the officer inside.

Police announced Wednesday that they have arrested the "noon duty aide" who allegedly exposed himself to an eighth grade girl in an empty room at Graham Middle School earlier this month.

During the years Salman Khan spent scrutinizing financials for hedge funds, he rationalized the profit-obsessed work by telling himself he would one day quit and use his market winnings to open a free school.

The body of Donna Dowell, an El Camino Hospital nurse who went missing a year ago , has been found by a hiker near Calaveras Reservoir, authorities announced.

The garage of Cira Nickerson's Los Altos home is packed, wall-to-wall, with a rainbow of children's bikes in all different sizes.

Crystal Stokes says she only jogs about once a month, making it all the more unlikely that the 27-year-old Mountain View resident would have to fight off an attack in the middle of the day.

Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District teachers and staff would get a 1.5 percent raise, retroactive to July 1, 2008, under a union agreement set for approval by the school board on Monday.

When San Jose Unified School District Superintendent Don Iglesias spoke up at a regularly scheduled school board meeting Thursday night, no one in the room expected him to announce his retirement.

According to The Register, , Mozilla may soon build a marketplace for add-ons : Mozilla has said it will "probably" open a marketplace for Firefox add-ons sometime next year.

A 30-inch water main ruptured in the Mountain View area today, digging a sinkhole and flooding the road and some homes today.

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NASA and the Arab Youth Venture Foundation in Dubai, United Arab Emirates have partnered to provide three to 12 UAE engineering students each year the opportunity to work with U.S. students, scientists, and engineers on NASA missions.

It turns out good old fashioned police work helped Mountain View investigators nab a man they say attacked at least three women on a popular hiking trail in recent weeks.