With light winds and warm temperatures predicted to linger throughout the Bay Area until the end of the week, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has declared Thursday another Spare the Air day, the fourth of the summer. Air quality officials believe that ground-level ozone pollution will continue to be unhealthy on Thursday and are asking Bay Area residents to consider making adjustments to their driving habits to help prevent producing more smog.

A public meeting will be held Wednesday night by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to hear the community's opinions on the process of the BART extension to San Jose. The meeting is an opportunity for the community to comment on changes to the design and implementation of the project, which will bring BART to downtown San Jose from its current end point in Fremont.

Apple Inc. announced a smaller, cheaper version of its Apple TV device for streaming movies and television shows over the Internet and into the living room. It also unveiled a new line of iPods, including a touch-screen Nano model.  The new Apple TV announced Wednesday will only let people rent, not buy, content.

Police are investigating a home invasion robbery in Palo Alto on Friday in which a 78-year-old man was attacked and tied up. The robbery was reported at about 3:30 p.m. at a single-story house in the 3100 block of Morris Avenue, Brown said. The victim answered a knock on his door and was confronted by three men, said Lt. Sandra Brown.

Police arrested a man in connection with the April attack and robbery of a woman at the Gilroy Premium Outlets after he turned himself in last week on an unrelated burglary warrant. Jaime Baldenegro, a 31-year-old Gilroy resident, turned himself in at the Police Department on Thursday, police said. The following day, a warrant was issued for his arrest at Santa Clara County's main jail after detectives linked him to a robbery on April 21, police said.

Food and Drug Administration investigators have found rodents, seeping manure and even maggots at the Iowa egg farms believed to be responsible for as many as 1,500 cases of salmonella poisoning. FDA officials released their initial observations of the investigations at Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms on Monday.