Nan Wigmore brought her walker and packed her sign, “Grateful Great Grandmas Circle The Wagons, Support Occupy,” and rode on a bus for some three days, sleeping in the same clothes, to make it to the NATO protests in Chicago.

Tropical Storm Alberto weakened slightly off the South Carolina coast on Sunday, a day after becoming an early first storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.

President Barack Obama will dliver the commencement address s commencement address on Monday will come one year after the deadliest tornado in the United States in six decades killed 161 people.

Police are trying to find suspects who shot and injured an 18-year-old man in a gang-related incident in San Jose Saturday evening.

Two things stand out about the race for California's newly drawn 15th Senate District spanning much of San Jose and the West Valley.

Volunteers who were cleaning the river and its banks discovered the body about 10:30 a.m. and called authorities, police said.

The man, whose name is being withheld until is family is notified, was in his 50s, Officer Jose Garcia said.

Krissy Purdy, 28, is helping others combat the baby blues after finding a way to use her 2-year-old and 6-month-old sons to give added pregnancy weight the boot.

Battery/Criminal Threats Mary Herrera, 54, of Gilroy , May 6, 10:40 p.m., at Pacheco Pass Highway and Bloomfield Avenue in Gilroy , for one misdemeanor related to battery on former spouse, fiance or cohabitant, and felony threats to commit crime resulting in death or injury of a person.

Happy Hollow Park & Zoo hosted Kris Vehrs, executive director of the Maryland-based Association of Zoos and Aquariums, this week to celebrate its accreditation by that group.

San Jose police say they are investigating a suspicious package which contained a threatening note at a nail salon on Lincoln Avenue this morning.

A construction site at Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif. where a pauper's cemetery was discovered last February is photographed on Wednesday, May 16, 2012.

Pictured is Michael Russell, as he appeared shortly before his death in 2009. Two of Russell's Santa Teresa High School classmates, Randy Thompson and Jae Wiliiams will stand trial this summer, facing murder charges in Russell's stabbing death, which occurred in the back yard of Russell's south San Jose home.