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Bernice “Bea” Klapat Jelenc, widow of Anthony Jelenc, died June 17, 2011.   Born April 19, 1910, in Racine, Wis., she was the daughter of Anton and Eva Lakovich Klapat. Bea graduated from Racine High School in 1928 and the University of...

NOV. 11, 1929-JUNE 13, 2011 Lancelot J. “Smokey” Baker, 81, of Hagerstown, Md., died Tuesday, June 13, 2011, at Meritus Medical Center. Born Nov. 11, 1929, in Waynesboro, Pa., he was the son of the late Andrew and Goldie Baker. He was...

Robert Helliwell, a Stanford electrical engineer whose study of radio waves emitted by lightning opened a new window to understanding the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere, died May 3 in Palo Alto of complications of dementia. He was 90. Helliwell...

  Dear SOS: On a recent trip to Silicon Valley, we went to breakfast one morning at a restaurant called the Country Gourmet in Sunnyvale. I had the whole wheat pancakes. These were some of the best I have ever had. I make my own whole wheat pancakes, but...

Question: I am a real estate agent who also conducts a rental property management business. One of my owners has instructed me to accept tenants for his rental property only if they sign a one-year lease. Our lease form contains a clause stating that each...

Question: I am a landlord who rents to older adults in a very quiet neighborhood. Right now I have a vacancy listed. I have had a few prospects for potential tenants but so far the people who have come to see the unit are much younger families with young...

Images documenting more than half a century of NASA history have been posted on photo-sharing website Flickr. Almost 200 pictures have been uploaded on the site. And just as if they were your best friend’s vacation photos posted on the site, you can add...

A top administrator in Alameda County, the retired city manager in Vernon and a public hospital executive earning more than $800,000 are among the local government officials whose pay and pension are being cited by Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown as......

Yahoo Inc., struggling to win back Internet users who have been drawn to popular hangouts such as Facebook, said Thursday that it plans to give many of its products a makeover this fall. At a special event held at the company’s Sunnyvale, Calif.,...

On a conference call to introduce herself to Wall Street as Yahoo Inc.'s brash new chief executive in January 2009, Carol Bartz demanded that everyone give the struggling Internet giant "some friggin' breathing room." On the heels of bungled merger......

Looking to get people to spend more time on its website, Yahoo has redesigned its free e-mail service, calling it the biggest overhaul in five years. Yahoo says the new version that begins to roll out Wednesday will run twice......

Yahoo Inc. confirmed late Wednesday that it has hired former Fox Interactive Media President Ross Levinsohn to run the Internet giant's U.S. operations. He will report to Chief Executive Carol Bartz and be responsible for the company's media group,...