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The first Ford Ranger wasn't a pickup truck - it was a failed 1950s Edsel sedan that sold only 21,000 units before the brand ...

Sal Pizarro is a Bay Area News Group columnist who has written the Around Town column for The Mercury News since 2005. His column covers the people and events surrounding the cultural scene in Silicon ...

Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the ...

When the iconic Golden Gate Bridge first opened across San Francisco Bay in 1937, it stood as a bold testament to vision, courage, and the power of connection. Today, with Mercury linking to both Mars ...

Leicester City breaking news, transfer news, opinions from our Leicester City writer, up-to-the-minute team news, injury and squad latest, fixtures, gossip, player ratings and match reports from ...

On the eve of Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, Cuba was neither the paradise that would later be conjured by the nostalgic imaginations of Cuba's many exiles, nor the hellhole painted by many ...