SF News San Jose Police Shoot and Injure Suspect They Say Was Threatening Them With a Knife A Sunday night domestic disturbance led to a knife-wielding suspect barricading themselves in a home and threatening police in San Jose’s East Virginia neighborhood, and officers shot that suspect who is now hospitalized.
SF News Seven Men Indicted For Organizing Bay Area Sideshows Via Instagram San Jose Police announced the arrest of seven men at a news conference Thursday, under the city's three-year-old law that makes it a crime to promote or organize sideshows.
SF News Union City Man Found Guilty of 2021 Murder of Trans Drag Artist Natalia Smüt In what appears to be Santa Clara County’s first guilty verdict in a transgender domestic homicide case, a 25-year-old Union City man was convicted of killing then-24-year-old Natalia Smüt Lopez of San Jose.
SF News Officials Raise Serious Safety Concerns Over BART-to-San Jose Design, Because Boy Does This Seem Like a Lot of Stairs Riders would have to climb the equivalent of eight flights of stairs in an emergency under the current design of the proposed BART-to-San Jose stations, and some officials are waving red flags that this is not feasible emergency planning.
SF News Investigators Say Gambling Debt Was Motive In Friday Shooting at VTA Yard Authorities said Monday that a shooting on Friday, allegedly committed by one Valley Transportation Authority employee against another, did not have to do with workplace tensions.
SF News VTA Employee Arrested For Friday Slaying of Coworker In San Jose A Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) employee was arrested Sunday in San Jose in connection with a fatal shooting of a coworker Friday in a VTA parking lot.
SF News Murder Charge Dropped for One Housemate In Overdose Death of San Jose Toddler, Trial Proceeding for Two Others A judge has ruled that a trial can proceed against two men who were charged, along with two others, in connection with the August 2023 death of a toddler due to fentanyl exposure.
SF News CHP: Florida Man Who Caused Wrong-Way Crash In San Jose Was Intoxicated The Florida man who allegedly caused a deadly wrong-way crash last week that killed a woman and her son has now been booked into jail, after he was released from the hospital where he was being treated for his own injuries.
SF News Father Mourns Son and Ex-Wife Killed In Wrong-Way Crash In San Jose A Bay Area man posted a moving tribute to his son and ex-wife on Reddit, after they were both killed in a tragic collision Monday afternoon on a freeway in San Jose.
SF News San Jose Woman and 14-Year-Old Boy Killed In Wrong-Way Crash on Highway 85 A horrific wrong-way crash occurred Monday afternoon in which a pickup truck being driven by a Florida man collided head-on with a woman's Tesla, killing her and her 14-year-old passenger.
SF News Family Cat Suffers Burns, But Survives House Fire In San Jose After Rescue Firefighters in San Jose rescued an injured and unconscious cat in a house fire this morning which also left a firefighter with injuries.
SF News Heat Wave in Santa Clara County Now Blamed for 19 Deaths Since July 1 The temperatures have been above 90 degrees pretty much every day of July in Santa Clara County, and the marathon heat wave is believed to be responsible for 19 people dying from the heat there since July 1.
SF News 79-Year-Old Woman Arrested for Killing Her 98-Year-Old Nursing Home Roommate An elderly woman with a history of homicidal tendencies toward roommates who made too much noise at night has been charged with the fatal beating of a woman who was her roommate at a nursing facility in San Jose.
SF News South Bay Water Board Seeks to Make It Illegal to Camp Along Creeks, Waterways In the latest legal gambit to address homeless encampments in the Bay Area, the board of directors of Santa Clara Valley Water wants to make it illegal to camp in or along any of the 300 miles of creeks and waterways it manages.
SF News San Jose Police SUV Destroyed By Rowdy Sideshow Participants There's often a hefty amount of "Why didn't the police do anything?" talk when footage of the latest sideshow comes out, and police frequently respond that unruly crowds can get dangerous for officers, especially lone officers, when they try to intervene on the party.
SF News Nearly Three-Hour Police Standoff In San Jose Ends With Discovery of Woman’s Dead Body San Jose police responded to reports of a possible shooting Monday night, with a suspect barricading himself inside a home for nearly three hours once they arrived, and a woman's dead body being found in the home after he surrendered.
SF News Shootout With Suspect Leaves Two San Jose Police Officers Injured, One Critically Two San Jose police officers engaged in a shootout Thursday night with a suspect which left the suspect and both officers injured.
SF News Defendants Face Judge In 2021 Exorcism Murder Case of San Jose Three-Year-Old A charismatic preacher, his son and his daughter are accused of killing a three year-old girl, the preacher's granddaughter, through a ritual that was described at the time as an exorcism.
SF News California Retail Theft Rings Making Millions Allegedly Just Selling Stolen Goods on Amazon One SoCal woman allegedly netted $8 million by selling shoplifted cosmetics on Amazon, while a San Jose operation reportedly made a mint reselling stolen TJ Maxx items at flea markets, as organized retail theft operations become more ruthlessly organized.
SF News San Jose Sharks Face New Lawsuit Over Alleged Sexual Abuse by Youth Hockey Coach A new lawsuit alleges that a 12-year-old was sexually abused by a former youth hockey coach connected to the San Jose Sharks, and accuses the owner of negligence.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose’s Raging Waters Waterslide Park Likely to Reopen This Summer Santa Clara-based Nvidia just became the nation’s third most valuable company; former supervisor John Avalos is in hot water over a provocative tweet; and San Jose’s shuttered Raging Waters park will probably reopen under new ownership this summer.
SF News Owner of San Jose Yum Yum Donuts Busted for Making and Selling ‘Pink Cocaine’ Out of Shop “Pink cocaine," also known as "Tusi", "Pantera Rosa," or “Pink Panther," is a new synthetic drug cocktail containing a mix of ketamine, MDMA, methamphetamine, cocaine, and opioids.
SF News Six People and a Dozen Dogs and Puppies Required Water Rescue From Inundated River Island In San Jose A group of people and their dogs who were apparently camped on an island in the Guadalupe River in San Jose required an emergency rescue on Sunday as the river waters rose.
SF News [Update] Police Find Missing Woman Who Was Victim of Suspected Kidnapping in San Jose A woman who was inside a vehicle stolen by a group of people in downtown San Jose early Saturday morning is missing, and police are asking for the public's help to recover the suspected kidnapping victim.
SF News Stolen San Jose Statue Sold For $800, But Will Cost $100,000 to Replace The wild story of a stolen San Jose statue got wilder when a reporter found the missing statue in a scrapyard. But that proved the statue was only worth a few hundred bucks as scrap metal, and the city is not willing to cough up $100,000 to put it back up.
