Mercury News Photo

2012 Bay Area Olympian profiles by the Mercury News photographers LiPo Ching and Jim Gensheimer.
(more…)

Bharatanatyam dancer Rasika Kumar. The performance was demonstrated in the Mercury News studio.
(more…)

Computer class gives Vietnamese orphans a window to the world.
(more…)

The Vasquez family take the first step to rebuild their San Bruno home.
(more…)

Eric Lambert spreads the art of Japanese swordsmanship.
(more…)

Passionate about their sport, these Lady Sharks are devoted athletes who live for the thrills on the ice.
(more…)

Migrant children in China face an uphill battle for education.
(more…)

Every Saturday, train enthusiasts gather at Santa Clara Railroad Depot to watch and run model trains.
(more…)

From early childhood, Amanda Madrid moved from one foster care family to another. At 22 she is putting her life together.
(more…)

Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month through old and new dance styles. Please press play.
(more…)

As the nation debates illegal immigration in the abstract, a Bay Area family lives the raw anguish of deportation and the intense fight to stay together. This is their story.
(more…)

Bessie Kawachi Chin, 87, fulfills her dream of a college degree after Japanese-American internment prevented her from finishing her studies nearly 70 years ago. (more…)

San Jose hosts the first wheelchair lacrosse clinic in the country.
(more…)

The day that Ella Cho was born her parents were advised to start making funeral arrangements.
(more…)

Tech companies and NGOs help school children recover from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
(more…)

A look at California Penal Code 148 and its use by the San Jose Police Department.
(more…)