On Tuesday June 23rd, 2008 a man was sentenced 17 years in prison after crashing his car into another car, and killing a 13 year boy. It happened last summer. The crash took place in Bakersfield, south of Sacramento, California.

For some South Lake Tahoe owners it's easy, for others it's tantamount to exorcism.Taking both emotion and ego out of the sale of a house is the difference between a quick sale for more money, or a long drawn out

I don't own a car, so when I go to the store for large quantities of beer or buckets of cat litter I use the CETMA, a lightweight steel rack that's tough as nails. I know a couple messengers that

Rocky Aoki, founder of the ubiquitous Benihana Japanese steak house chain in North America, died last week in New York. He was 69: Benihana Founder Rocky Aoki Passes Away. No cause of death was specified, but he had been battling

Next month, tourists from all over the world will visit Beijing for the Olympic games. I'm sure many fearful and reluctant foreign diners will be happy and relieved to hear this news: Dog meat off the menu during Beijing Olympics.

The following email was sent to the organizers of the U.S. Air Guitar Championships by Francis Hsueh, who attended the Brooklyn Regional last week. Basically, it highlights some racist remarks made by one of the idiot judges at the competition.

The Sacramento Bee has another good article on the many Japanese Americans who played baseball in internment camps during World War II: California's Japanese Americans loved their baseball, even behind barbed wire. Last week, 32 Japanese Americans from the era

The United States Supreme Court in Gall vs. United States held that the federal sentencing "guidelines" are no longer binding on what sentence a federal judge decides to hand down in any particular case. The US Supreme Court recently held

Bay Area friends, mark your calendars... here's another cool event for a good cause. Over twenty community and professional organizations are partering up with AsianWeek to present help: Benefit Concert for Burma and Sichuan, Saturday, August 2 at Glas Kat

The Center for Asian American Media has narrowed down the pool of contestants for the Toyota Matrix Free Your Story Contest to seven semi-finalists. Six of these filmmakers will advance to the final round where they'll compete to be the