By Tiffany Owens Engaging a younger generation about the biblical teachings on homosexuality may be today’s greatest challenge for the evangelical church. In a 2011 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, 62 percent of adults between 18 and 29 years old said they supported gay “marriage,” and 71 percent supported civil unions. Among...

The South Berkeley Senior Center is celebrating Black History Month by showing documentaries Tuesdays in February at 10:30 a.m. Films include  “The Drilling Fields” (1994) on Feb. 12. The film looks at the relationship between Shell Petroleum Development Company and the Nigerian government as it impacts the lives of the Ogoni people–Nigerians who have...

Attorney General Kamala Harris this week filed a lawsuit against one of the nation’s major credit rating companies for inflating its ratings of structured finance investments, which caused California’s public pension funds and other investors to lose billions of dollars. The complaint, filed Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that the McGraw-Hill Companies,...