As we prepare to celebrate summer, let's pay homage to the sultan of splash, Herbert Sellner. This Minnesota inventor came up with the water slide in 1923, the most exciting way ever to enter the H2O.
Names like Jeff Gordon, Rusty Wallace, Ricky Rudd, Ernie Irvan, Mark Martin and Geoffrey Bodine found themselves in the winner's circle or in a position to challenge for the win year after year.
Alameda World Tournament Baseball -- Tryouts by appointment for Alameda World Tournament Baseball team. For boys age 15. 928 Magnolia Drive, Alameda. 510-381-3434, rich@dsp.
COLUMBIA -- Standing in the vault her brothers robbed 55 years ago, Marie Anglin Widner gasped. "They really went in here," she said, turning to fully take in the surroundings at the old Bank of Columbia.
A man was struck and killed by a Daly City-bound BART train at the Hayward station Tuesday afternoon, the second such incident in less than eight hours, officials.
Nonprofit groups are picking thousands of pounds of oranges, apples and other fruits from willing homeowners' yards, and donating them to food banks, soup kitchens and organizations that help low-income residents get nutritious meals.
San Jose city officials approved a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Major League Baseball's antitrust exemption, arguing that assigning the city to the San Francisco Giants who are refusing to allow the Oakland A's to build a downtown ballpark is unlawful restraint of trade.
MOSS LANDING -- Drawn by an abundance of food, pods of whales are frolicking across Monterey Bay, delighting oceangoing whale-watchers who spent the weekend thrilled by one of nature's greatest shows.
