Invitations are being sent out for the upcoming wedding of actress Misaki Ito, 33, and Yoshinori Enomoto, 40, president of pachinko machine manufacturer Kyoraku. According… [read more]

Dr. John W. (Jack) Switzer, Sonoma veterinarian for 40 years, passed away on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, after a brief battle with cancer. He was born in Culver City, on Nov. 27, 1929. His childhood was spent plowing orange groves in the San Fernando Valley. [read more]

Namesake visits his grandfather on a heritage journey to a military cemetery in Brittany [read more]

The December issue of Kodansha 's Monthly Shonen Magazine has announced on Friday that Baby & Me ( Akachan to Boku ) creator Marimo Ragawa is launching a new manga called Mashiro no Oto in the next issue on December 5. The coming-of-age drama follows a girl as she comes across a boy on the street with an unusual instrument case. [read more]

Osterville — Patricia K. (Johnson) Bagley, 53, of Osterville, died peacefully in her sleep Oct. 25, 2009, after a long illness. Ms. Bagley was born in Munich, Germany, the daughter of Earling H. and Irene M. (Donahue) Johnson. [read more]

We all know her story. She was a beautiful, bright 24-year-old graduate student in Yale's pharmacology department who went missing just four days shy of her wedding. Her body was found on what was to be her wedding day hidden behind a wall in her laboratory, a Yale building at 10 Amistad Street... [read more]

We all know her story. She was a beautiful, bright 24-year-old graduate student in Yale's pharmacology department who went missing just four days shy of her wedding. Her body was found on what was to be her wedding day hidden behind a wall in her laboratory, a Yale building at 10 Amistad St.* in... [read more]

Linda Finch Hicks, administrative manager in the history department, died Sunday, Nov. 1 at Alta Bates Hospital of pancreatic cancer. She was 55. [read more]

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We all know her story. She was a beautiful, bright 24-year-old graduate student in Yale's pharmacology department who went missing just four days shy of her wedding. Her body was found on what was to be her wedding day hidden behind a wall in her laboratory, a Yale building at 10 Amistad Road in... [read more]