Danville News

In just two months, Nolan Blair went from being a rugby- and basketball-playing teenager to a boy in need of a new heart.

Beverages & More Danville offers wine tastings Friday and Saturday that attract wine lovers that wish to network on wine, community and opportunity.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down from her position as Governor in Wasilla, Alaska on Friday July 3, 2009.

ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING NOV. 27: The town's 33rd annual Lighting of the Old Oak Tree is scheduled for Nov.

One of the town's oldest buildings has some new offerings for those headed downtown to enjoy the arts.

Capt. Chesley Sullenberger is expected any moment at a Danville, Calif., Starbucks, and I wait there, half-expecting the American hero to zoom down from the heavens, like Superman.

Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the Danville pilot who famously landed a US Airways jet safely into New York's Hudson River in January, is among six Contra Costa County residents and organizations honored by the American Red Cross.

Michael Stuhlbarg, stars as Larry Gopnik and Richard Kind stars as Larry's brother Arthur in A Serious Man The camera pulls back from the wall-sized blackboard that college physics professor Larry Gopnik has covered with numbers.E"Even if you can't figure anything out, you're still responsible for it on the midterm," the professor says to the ...

"It's going to get Biblical!" So promises the psychotic prime mover of the new thriller "Law Abiding Citizen." Now there's a lot of crazy stuff in the Bible, which would no doubt get an "R" from the MPAA for much the same reasons "Law Abiding Citizen" did.

THEY HAD no money for shoes and no money for school uniforms. Thus, Salomon joined his father at work on the family farm.

Parents of Los Cerros Middle School students were put on alert Friday after a man exposed himself to several students on a trail after school finished for the day.

In her 1974 essay "Family Structure and Feminine Personality," Nancy Chodorow posited that maternal bonding and absent fathers lead boys to define their masculinity through traumatic separation and defensive individuation.

Pay some attention to the man behind the curtain. "Michael Jackson's This Is It" -- like the life and career of the man it documents -- is a hall-of-mirrors investigation of extraordinary talent, emotionally stunted personality, a performer's process and the cruel mistress of celebrity.

SOMETIMES PLAYS ARE well worth a second or even third look; plays that develop a richness and meaning even deeper than the first time around.

Two men fleeing at the sight of a police officer in the middle of the night led to their arrest when it was determined they might be responsible for a burglary at St.

Downtown Danville and Hartz Avenue welcome lovers of arts and crafts to enjoy the work of more than 200 artists from all across the country at the Danville Fall Crafts Festival this weekend.

AT LAST, a governance reform Californians like. A poll last week found that nearly two-thirds of voters would say yes to a June 2010 ballot measure that would dip our collective toes into public financing of campaigns.

Share + Comments Oct 23, 2009 8:59 am US/Pacific CONCORD A spilled load of milk crates and plastic milk cartons littered Interstate Highway 680 through Contra Costa County Friday morning, from Concord to Danville to San Ramon, a California Highway Patrol officer said.

To stock up on comfy sweaters and jeans to tuck into your winter boots, look no further than Christina's. From the thick and fluffy to knits with big wooden buttons, the shop has you covered - literally - for the upcoming season.

Police found a 69-year-old man dead in his home Wednesday and his 65-year-old wife was taken to a hospital for unspecified treatment, according to a police statement.