Opinion

SAN FRANCISCO — Outgoing flights were delayed at several Northern California and Nevada airports Monday because of a software malfunction in processing data from radar. -more-

CATHEDRAL CITY— A 10-year-old boy abducted by a grandfather who wanted him to be involved in baseball rather than ballet has been returned to the gay couple who raised him since infancy, his uncle said. -more-

A five-acre blaze in Tilden Park Sunday was extinguished in a little over an hour, fire officials said. -more-

YREKA – A man accused of luring two girls into his home with gifts and ice cream and then sexually assaulting them a decade ago pulled a gun in the courthouse during his trial Friday and shot one of his victims and her husband. He then killed himself. -more-

In what sounds like something out of “Jurassic Park,” bacteria that lived before the dinosaurs and survived Earth’s biggest mass extinction have been reawakened after a 250-million-year sleep in a salt crystal, scientists say. -more-