SAN JOSE -- Khaled Hosseini, author of the wildly successful novel "The Kite Runner," says it all began with a simple tale he wrote six years ago about two boys who loved flying kites in his native Afghanistan.

PHILADELPHIA -- Twenty-one billboards plugging rapper 50 Cent's movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin"' are coming down amid opposition from community groups.

Retaining the magical big top as its playground, the beguiling troupe of entertainers and athletes known as Cirque du Soleil returns to the Bay Area this week with its newest production, "Corteo."

Education

Napa Sunrise Rotary Club names October students of the month

The last place Arienne Prange expected to find a reference to cannibalism was on a Napa County parcel map.

WASHINGTON -- While our wedding was one wonderful day, our honeymoon was an incredible 28 days spent traveling around the world.