Arts & Entertainment Alice 97.3 Abruptly Cancels Its ‘Alice in Winterland’ Holiday Concert With Little Explanation Country rapper Jelly Roll and mom-rock band Train were set to headline the Alice 97.3 holiday concert on December 1 in San Jose, but the show was just unexpectedly canceled.
SF News San Jose Man Who Lived In Meth Lab House Charged By Feds For Intentionally Bombing Two PG&E Transformers Thousands of San Jose residents lost power when PG&E transformers blew up this past December and January, and the feds are charging a 36-year-old man for doing the deed. Oh, and he was also allegedly running a meth lab.
SF News 15-Year-Old Arrested For Hit-and-Run That Killed Pregnant San Jose Woman Last Week A 21-year-old preschool teacher was killed last week in a tragic hit-and-run collision at a busy South San Jose intersection, and police say they have now arrested the 15-year-old boy responsible, who was driving a stolen car at the time.
SF News House Sadness: Condemned Home That Was a Meth Lab Listed for $1.55M A condemned house that had been home to a confirmed meth- and bomb-making lab in San Jose has just hit the market for $1.55 million.
SF News More Details Emerge on the Two Toddlers Who Drowned at a San Jose Daycare Center We now know the identities of the 18-month-old and 16-month-old who died by drowning while unattended at the Happy Happy Home daycare center in San Jose, and the operators of the center have been charged with felony child endangerment.
Arts & Entertainment Winchester Mystery House Celebrates 100th Anniversary With Whimsically Spooky ‘Unhinged: Housewarming’ As the Winchester Mystery House turns 100 years old, it brings a proper Halloween haunted house experience to the Bay Area’s favorite supposedly haunted house with Unhinged: Housewarming, a two-hour parade of installations and sight gags that are an absolute scream.
SF News Latest Busload of Migrants Shipped Out of Texas Lands in San Jose, Migrants Graciously Accepted A dozen undocumented immigrants arrived in San Jose on a bus from Texas this past weekend, and San Jose is making no apologies for rolling out the welcome mat with food, clothing, and medical care.
SF Politics San Jose Councilmember Faces Bizarre Allegation He Hit a Homeless Person With His Car, Then Paid Him Off A strange potential scandal for San Jose City Councilmember Arjun Batra, who’s accused of driving into an unhoused person with his Lexus, and then paying the individual $40 to keep it hush-hush.
SF News 22-Year-Old Netflix Engineer Missing Since Monday, Possessions Found Near Golden Gate Bridge The family of San Jose man and recent Bay Area arrival Yohanes Kidane is frantically searching for him after his disappearance Monday, and while his phone and backpack were found near Golden Gate Bridge, there is still no sign of Kidane.
SF News San Jose Firefighter Strip Club Report Made Public, Firefighters Claim They Can’t Remember Visiting Club The full investigative report into last year’s scandalous San Jose Fire Department strip club incident is now public, and while there are some possibly plausible excuses for the first strip club visit, firefighters claim they cannot remember visiting the second club.
SF News Wildfire Season Already? Four Fires This Weekend In Bay Area and Beyond Spur Concerns This weekend's Snell Fire in Napa County is now 100% contained after burning 103 acres, but despite this year’s rainy winter, a weekend of several NorCal fires has officials warning that precautions are still very much necessary.
SF News Driver Killed In Fatal San Jose Crash As SUV Veers Off Road, Catches Fire An early morning SUV crash closed off two lanes of traffic on I-680 near Warmsprings in San Jose Wednesday, and the driver did not survive after their SUV went off the highway and caught fire upon hitting trees.
SF News Man on Violent Rampage Kills Three, Injures Several Others In San Jose and Milpitas A South Bay man who was arrested in January but never charged for an alleged hate-crime assault on a trans person just allegedly went on a violent spree Thursday afternoon that left three people dead and two others stabbed and injured.
Arts & Entertainment San Jose Adobe HQ Gets New LED Semaphore Puzzle, and Another Contest To Solve It A new LED semaphore brain-teaser is being projected atop Adobe’s San Jose Almaden Tower headquarters, and you can win free Adobe software for solving it, though it is unlikely to be solved for many years.
SF News 4 People Stabbed, 1 With Critical Injuries, After Fight in Downtown San Jose Sunday Morning One individual involved in the altercation sustained injuries that posed a threat to their life, while three others suffered non-life-threatening injuries but recovered at the hospital.
SF News Pandemic Rule-Flouting Church In San Jose Loses Latest Court Battle, Ordered to Pay $1.2M In Fines Calvary Chapel in San Jose continues to spend a lot of time and energy fighting Santa Clara County in court over pandemic-era public health rules that it openly defied. And a Superior Court judge has just ordered the evangelical church to pay $1.2 million in fines to the county.
SF News City Officials and Community Groups React to Drug Charges Against Former San Jose Police Union Exec San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata and San Jose City Councilmembers commented publicly on the investigation into ex-San Jose Police Officers' Association head Joanne Segovia.
SF News Head of San Jose Police Union Charged With Dealing Copious Amounts of Fentanyl Here’s a twist in the law enforcement narrative about the fentanyl trade, as the 20-year executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association has been criminally charged for importing and distributing “thousands of opioid and other pills” including fentanyl.
SF News San Jose Man With Machete Takes Multiple Hostages, Shot By Police After Three-Hour Standoff A San Jose man barricaded himself in an apartment with three hostages Wednesday night, with two children among the hostages, and police shot and killed the suspect after a three-hour standoff.
SF News San Jose Fire Chief Apologizes For Fire Truck Visiting Multiple Strip Clubs In One Night After an October incident where on-duty San Jose firefighters made stops at two strip clubs, in a fire engine, the department chief has issued an apology, but has otherwise dug in his heels and refused to answer questions.
SF News San Jose Woman Sentenced to 13 Years For 'Baby Brandon' Kidnapping; Accomplice Gets Five Years The San Jose woman responsible for last year's dramatic kidnapping of an infant, with the help of a man she was dating and in order to dupe another man she was involved with, has just been sentenced to 13 years and four months.
SF News San Jose Police Seek Tenderloin Mother And Two-Year-Old She Allegedly Abducted Police in San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland are all on the lookout for a mother they describe as a “heavy drug user,” and whom they believe abducted the two-year-old whom she lost custody of, now missing for 24 hours.
SF News Large Statue Stolen from San Jose Park Reportedly Located by Local Journalist in Lobby of Troubled Scrapyard After publishing a story about the statue’s history last week, Mercury News reporter Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler says he found it "hours" later inside the headquarters of a scrapyard that's had many police citations.
SF News BART San Jose Extension Gets $375 Million State Grant, Expects To Start Construction Next Year Another big pile of state money is kickstarting BART’s extension into downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, which will come in handy, as authorities now admit the total project cost will indeed be about $9 billion.
SF News Sentencing Delayed In Wacky San Jose Kidnapping Case as Suspect Now Claims Her Estranged Husband Made Her Do It A San Jose woman whose apparent web of lies led her to mastermind a kidnapping last spring is now claiming innocence in the case, months after pleading no contest and waiving her right to a trial.
