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The retired grocery store worker and his wife turned a $141 million windfall in 2001 into the Castellano Family Foundation.

When the two brothers behind Peninsula mini-chains Truffle Poke Bar and Guapa’s Mexican Grill were offered a third space next to their two restaurants in South San Francisco, they said yes. 

Witnesses, sometimes crying on the stand, recounted a horrifying ordeal where a man killed a clerk at a convenience store in the presence of unwilling co-participants.

A house located in the 500 block of North California Avenue in Palo Alto has a new owner.

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One of the men is accused of committing a series of restaurant burglaries with a police tracking device on his car.

Purchase of Holthouse Ranch is latest protected open space in and around Coyote Valley

William’s decision to peel away from Sir Keir Starmer in St. Peter’s Basilica may have been an example of his using royal family soft power to influence international diplomacy, reports say.

BART officials said the suspect, a 35-year-old Hayward man with a 2011 conviction for voluntary manslaughter, was apparently upset over being denied entry onto an out-of-service bus.