The 49ers’ meek offense blamed itself rather than a young, patchwork defense for Sunday’s 26-15 loss at Houston.| The Mercury News
The 49ers (5-3) crumpled with an undermanned defense and lost to the Houston Texans (3-4)| The Mercury News
The 49ers offense sabotaged the defense and the defense failed to set up the offense in one-sided loss to Texans.| The Mercury News
Study: Sierra Nevada forests shifting to higher elevations as temperatures warm| The Mercury News
NHL: Nick Leddy will miss the rest of the San Jose Sharks’ road trip and possibly beyond with an upper-body injury| The Mercury News
NHL: San Jose Sharks continue road trip on Friday against the New Jersey Devils| The Mercury News
Yaroslav Askarov made 28 saves, including in 10 in the first period, in the San Jose Sharks’ 6-3 loss to the Utah Mammoth| The Mercury News
Snoop squad ‘strongly suggested’ to leaking worker that they had accessed his chats from before he joined the firm, report says.| The Mercury News
Warriors vs. Trail Blazers: Warriors fade in the second half of third game in four nights| The Mercury News
The charge or charges Rozier and Billups face were not immediately known.| The Mercury News
NHL: San Jose Sharks face the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden, looking for their first win of the season| The Mercury News
Jason Fletcher is facing pending manslaughter charges for fatally shooting Steven Taylor in 2020, and now Taylor’s family has filed a $10 million federal suit.| The Mercury News
The Giants have lost 13 of their last 14 games at Oracle Park| The Mercury News
Landen Roupp had a 3.11 ERA with 95 strikeouts over 101 1/3 innings| The Mercury News
Rafael Devers four putouts in four chances at first base along with two hits, two runs and an RBI| The Mercury News
Matt Chapman hasn’t played for Giants since June 8 due to right hand injury| The Mercury News
The Giants will play key NL West trip at Colorado and LA without their Gold Glove third baseman, who injured his hand in Sunday’s win against the Braves.| The Mercury News
Ultraprocessed foods make up about 60% of the U.S. diet.| The Mercury News
The 49ers defense and coordinator Robert Saleh — fresh off a public spat with Jacksonville coach Liam Coen — face a tough task Thursday night visiting the Los Angeles Rams.| The Mercury News
The San Francisco 49ers square off against division rivals the Los Angeles Rams at 5:15 p.m. PDT on Thursday, Oct. 2 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.| The Mercury News
The best new play in football is a Rams kickoff.| The Mercury News
Brock Purdy is a non-participant in practice with turf toe. Mac Jones has been cleared fully. Which one will start Thursday night against the Rams| The Mercury News
Brock Purdy got intercepted twice and committed a fourth-quarter fumble in the 49ers’ first loss of the season, 26-21 to Jacksonville| The Mercury News
Marc-Edouard Vlasic disillusioned with way his 19-year tenure with the San Jose Sharks ended| The Mercury News
Drafted by the San Jose Sharks in 2005, Marc-Edouard Vlasic played all of his 1,323 NHL games with the franchise over 19 seasons| The Mercury News
‘We own this town’: Dougherty Valley smokes California in rivalry game | The Mercury News
Do our brains have the privacy they need? Neuralink’s implant is announced with great fanfare, but few details.| The Mercury News
The investigation is the latest crackdown on transgender protections by the Trump administration.| The Mercury News
The Niners had little business beating the Cardinals in Week 3. They did it anyway.| The Mercury News
Bosa limped off the field in the first quarter with a knee injury.| The Mercury News
The 49ers (3-0) won their home opener 16-15 on Eddy Pineiro’s walk-off field goal against the Arizona Cardinals.| The Mercury News
The cinema is part of a 8,000-square-foot campus, named for the late documentary filmmaker James Redford, son of the late actor and Sundance founder Robert Redford.| The Mercury News
Mac Jones threw three touchdown passes in place of Brock Purdy and the 49ers improved to 2-0 with a 26-21 win at New Orleans| The Mercury News
I’m a busy single mom, and he’s right there.| The Mercury News
The company says it is also following California’s 2018 privacy law that requires extra protections, including banning the collection of “physical location or movements,” but how it is doing …| The Mercury News
The bill comes as President Donald Trump has promised mass deportations of immigrants in the country without permission.| The Mercury News
Trump is cutting 500-plus jobs at Voice of America and its parent agency despite legal challenges | The Mercury News
About 30% of California students were considered chronically absent — nearly 1.8 million students — for the 2020-21 school year.| The Mercury News
A house that sold for $5.9 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Saratoga in the past week.| The Mercury News
An article on the Harvard Medical School website said that “pink noise can enhance deep sleep in older adults and improve cognitive performance.” Brown noise can also help sleep.| The Mercury News
You could spend thousands of dollars adding smart tech to a home like mine, but I’ve spent far less using off-the-shelf products that are easy to find online or even at Home Depot.| The Mercury News
Vallejo hits its second highest homicide rate in past 25 years| The Mercury News
Revelations about how bots could talk to children on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and its Meta AI assistant were met with revulsion.| The Mercury News
U.S. pauses visitor visas for Gaza residents after right-wing outcry | The Mercury News
In talks with European allies after Friday’s summit in Alaska, Trump said Putin reiterated that he wants the key Donetsk and Luhansk regions that make up the Donbas.| The Mercury News
Warriors opening-day game will be broadcast on NBC, will face familiar foe on Christmas| The Mercury News
If 49ers are to hit the ground running on Sept. 7, these eight players must be protected until the regular season begins.| The Mercury News
A high ankle sprain could keep Jordan Watkins from covering for Brandon Aiyuk, Demarcus Robinson when season starts.| The Mercury News
Here are the highs, lows and good deeds from the 49ers’ preseason-opening 30-9 loss to the Denver Broncos on Saturday night at Levi’s Stadium.| The Mercury News
Suspect arrested in robbery, kidnapping of Peninsula resident | The Mercury News
The Education Department threatened to cut federal funding from institutions that continued with DEI initiatives.| The Mercury News
Now, if it could just make popcorn …| The Mercury News
Jury delivers verdict in Fremont case debated as murder or suicide | The Mercury News
The road to Williamsport was filled with more drama than usual for a couple Little League World Series participants this year, including a Venezuelan team that needed visa exemptions to make the tr…| The Mercury News
Statistics rebut Trump’s claims about violence crime in DC.| The Mercury News
A month after a train severed her right arm, surf instructor Elieah Boyd was discharged from UCI Medical Center, where her arm was reattached in a 10-hour surgery.| The Mercury News
Bay Area News, Sports, Weather and Things to Do| The Mercury News
GOP senators have a responsibility to conduct oversight of Kennedy and to constrain his deadly actions.| The Mercury News
Whale found off East Bay coast likely died after being hit by ship | The Mercury News
Warriors vs. Rockets Game 6: Warriors give up huge run in the fourth quarter, cannot recover as series shifts to Houston.| The Mercury News
Don’t let your phone become a Roach Motel for photos, where pictures check in but don’t check out| The Mercury News
Wall Street falls the most since May after employers slash hiring and tariffs roll out | The Mercury News
At least two state bills and one federal bill aimed at holding ICE agents accountable have been introduced.| The Mercury News
Monitoring your blood sugar levels can lead to some interesting revelations| The Mercury News
Probe comes despite decadeslong ban on race-based affirmative action on California campuses.| The Mercury News
Incoming President Donald Trump is tapping another Bay Area Republican for a spot in his administration, announcing Monday that he’s nominating the San Francisco legal brawler Harmeet Dhillon for a…| The Mercury News
NCAA baseball: Hedges’ 2 home runs power USC past Saint Mary’s in Corvallis Regional | The Mercury News
Chamber of Commerce insists the data collection is “all very innocent.”| The Mercury News
Steph Curry’s hamstring injury has turned this second-round series on its head. But so has the Dubs’ Game 1 win.| The Mercury News
Golden State won the season series but hasn’t faced Minnesota since January — and never in the postseason.| The Mercury News
Warriors’ superstars come up big in the second half, push team into second round.| The Mercury News
Metropolitan Transportation Commission accounting a mess because it comingles different portions of the tolls| The Mercury News
The plan was also blocked by a second federal judge last week.| The Mercury News
I’ve been living in the Bay Area since 1981, and until about four years ago, it never occurred to me to invest in air conditioning. But recent extreme heat and the risk of smoky air from fires got …| The Mercury News
Donald Trump was once a cheerleader of publicizing hacked materials. That changed when Trump’s latest presidential campaign declared this weekend it had been hacked by Iran.| The Mercury News
The measure will appear on the Nov. 5 ballot, where it will need support from 55% of local voters to pass.| The Mercury News
Miller suffered the fracture when he “pounded the table in frustration in the trainer’s room,” a team spokesperson said.| The Mercury News
Oakland Athletics’ Mason Miller sets new MLB record with 103.6 mph fastball in 2024 All-Star Game, strikes out Shohei Ohtani, Trea Turner while earning win for AL| The Mercury News
Despite the substantial number of convictions, many of the people who were arrested for marijuana during Harris’ tenure were never locked up or never even charged with a crime.| The Mercury News
As his Ricky Pearsall Jr. arrived at Levi’s Stadium after being drafted by the 49ers, his father recalled how he used to throw Skittles at him to groom his catching skills.| The Mercury News
As the Tesla CEO explained in a new interview, he apparently sees no link between his controversial statements about gender identity issues and his daughter’s move to legally sever ties with …| The Mercury News
The ability of large companies to pay the high cost of the H-1B visa plays a role in attracting foreign workers to the Valley, a report says.| The Mercury News