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A VTA light-rail train collided with an unmarked San Jose Police car Thursday night, injuring the on-duty officer inside.

The force of the crash pushed the vehicle several yards, leaving shattered glass on the roadway and the officer trapped inside his car on First Street just north of Highway 880.

The [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - One of the pilots of a Brazilian aircraft screamed in horror as his Airbus A320 jetliner overshot the wet runway at Sao Paulo’s Congonhas airport on July 17 and slammed into a cargo terminal, killing all 187 people on board and 12 more on the ground. It [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - One of the pilots of a Brazilian aircraft screamed in horror as his Airbus A320 jetliner overshot the wet runway at Sao Paulo’s Congonhas airport on July 17 and slammed into a cargo terminal, killing all 187 people on board and 12 more on the ground. It [...]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq’s largest Sunni political faction resigned from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Cabinet on Wednesday, severely weakening the government’s credentials as a national unity coalition and setting back hopes of reconciliation.

The move was accompanied by a wave of bombings in Baghdad that killed at least [...]

JERUSALEM - Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said Wednesday that his country would consider attending President Bush’s planned Israeli-Palestinian peace conference in the fall, which would put Saudi officials publicly at the same table as their Israeli counterparts for the first time since 1991.

But Saudi officials said a precondition of its attendance [...]

RECALLED TOYS

Model names and product numbers for the nearly 1 million recalled Fisher-Price toys, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission:

33662 Elmo Light Up Musical Pal

33663 Ernie Light Up Musical Pal

33664 Big Bird Light Up Musical Pal

34658 Elmo Stacking Rings

39038 Elmo Tub [...]

LOS ANGELES - In a sweeping deal to end years of controversy, the J. Paul Getty Museum agreed Wednesday to return to Italy 40 antiquities from its collection, including several masterpieces and its prized fifth-century B.C. statue of the goddess Aphrodite.

The draft agreement, reached over an exchange of faxes Tuesday, includes [...]

SACRAMENTO - Senate Republicans on Wednesday night again refused to vote for a state budget that is now more than a month overdue - a move that raised the likelihood that the standoff will persist for several more weeks and potentially imperil the agenda of GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

A budget plan that [...]

SACRAMENTO - Senate Republicans on Wednesday night again refused to vote for a state budget that is now more than a month overdue - a move that raised the likelihood that the standoff will persist for several more weeks and potentially imperil the agenda of GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

A budget plan [...]

What happens when you marry pro football and presidential politics at the ballot box? The San Francisco 49ers may find out.

With time running out to file a ballot question for November, California’s presidential primary on Feb. 5 is emerging as the first opportunity for Santa Clara voters to decide whether the [...]