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Last week, I wrote about a brewing controversy at Newman Hall Holy Spirit Parish in Berkeley regarding the dismissal of two beloved priests - one who has spoken openly about being gay.

It is no secret that the Chinese have a crush on Harvard. Naturally, high intelligence is drawn to elite universities like physical strength to top sports.

The Vancouver Sun launches Wine Critic for your smartphone, tablet and desktop computer, featuring wine picks, tips, videos, advice on food pairings and more from our expert Anthony Gismondi.

This summer, All Things Considered has been taking a look at the changing lives of men in America .

This summer, All Things Considered has been taking a look at the changing lives of men in America .

Facebook, Google and just about everyone except Science 2.0 use global distributed computers to mine your web history and learn everything about you to make generate revenue.

Interstate 80 through Berkeley is now back open while police continue to search for a man seen running across the freeway.

If you go to any corner store and pick up a copy of Cosmo or Glamour, chances are that several pages will be full of tips for having the best sex ever.

New Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour talks with reporters in State College, Pa.

My grandkids always send me cute text messages with happy faces, hearts, and other cutesy pictures.

This week we have been deluged with anguished letters about the seemingly endless tragedies which are being enacted around the world.

Penn State has hired Sandy Barbour as athletic director, a month after she stepped down as AD at the University of California-Berkeley.

"Clean up"? Sara Gaiser's article repeatedly uses the same offensive euphemism for the policy of constantly relocating homeless poor people - "clean up."

Those of us who need glasses to see a TV or laptop screen clearly could ditch the eyewear thanks to a display technology that corrects vision problems.

Nick Castle had just graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, when he loaded up his backpack with Mandarin-language books and set off for rural China to teach in the Peace Corps.

I used to downplay that argument as hyperbolic, but after reading recent research used to tout the new San Diego measure , I see the logic of these minimum-wage critics.

A fence surrounds the state prison in Florence, Ariz., where Joseph Rudolph Wood was put to death on Wednesday.

The City of Berkeley is in big financial trouble, as we all know. There is an urgent need to boost city revenues.

The execution process took nearly two hours. A fence surrounds the state prison in Florence, Ariz., where Joseph Rudolph Wood was put to death on Wednesday.

So far as cellist Tanya Tomkins and pianist Eric Zivian know, there's no other festival doing chamber music on period instruments.