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.
SF News Male Pedestrian Killed By Truck In San Jose On New Year’s Eve A San Jose accident Saturday night left a pedestrian dead, bringing the total annual number of fatalities in the city to 65, with specifically 32 pedestrians, police say.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Investigation Clears VTA of Negligence In Mass Shooting An outside investigation has cleared the VTA and its managers of negligence in missing warning signs of last year's mass shooting; Elon Musk is sending the mob after Yoel Roth now; and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas.
SF News 66-Year-Old San Jose Man Allegedly Shoots Unarmed Black Man Renting Airbnb In His Neighborhood A white San Jose resident has been charged in the unprovoked shooting of an unarmed Black man in October who was leaving an Airbnb he was renting to head to a grocery store.
SF News COVID-Restriction-Flouting San Jose Church Wins Appeal for Flouting COVID Restrictions San Jose’s Calvary Chapel gained notoriety for defying COVID-19 restrictions throughout the pandemic, and the California Supreme Court just shot down $217,500 in fines the church had racked up.
SF News Families of VTA Workers Killed In Mass Shooting Settle Wrongful Death Case For Just $8 Million Apparently the hands of attorneys representing families of eight of the victims in the May 2021 mass shooting at a VTA rail facility in San Jose were somewhat tied by the legal system, and the families are now settling their wrongful death suit with the VTA for $8 million.
SF News 3.4M Earthquake Gives a Small Shake to the San Jose Foothills A smallish Wednesday morning earthquake rattled the area of the Alameda-Santa Clara county border, and it was measured at 3.4-magnitude by the USGS.
SF News San Jose Church That Defied Pandemic Public Health Orders Wins Appeal Based on Supreme Court's Rightward Shift The evangelical Calvary Chapel in San Jose was ordered to pay over $200K in contempt-of-court fines over its defiance of county public health orders in 2020, but a state appeals court has just overturned that and ruled in favor of the church, because of Amy Coney Barrett.
SF News San Jose Kidnapping Tale Grows Cray-Cray-Crazier As Investigators Detail Sordid Tale of Boyfriend-Trapping The real story behind the brazen kidnapping of three-month-old San Jose infant Brandon Cuellar is even nuttier than you might have imagined, and it involves a married woman with multiple boyfriends and a plan to possibly baby-trap one of them without getting pregnant herself.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amy’s Kitchen Closing Down Its San Jose Pizza Production Factory, 300 Jobs Cut The freezer burn from inflation and supply chain disruptions has led to the closure of a San Jose Amy’s Kitchen frozen pizza production facility, but you can’t help but wonder if a boycott of the company also hurt its fortunes.
SF News Man Drives Car Into San Jose Home Depot, Dies After Suffering 'Major Injuries' San Jose police tweeted Saturday night that a man died from his wounds after smashing his car in the Home Depot location on 2181 Monterey Road; it appears no one else was injured in the solo car crash.
SF News One-Year Anniversary of San Jose VTA Mass Shooting Marked With Vigils, Remembrances — and a New Lawsuit Today marks exactly one year since a disgruntled Valley Transit Authority worker opened fire and took the lives of nine colleagues in San Jose, and remembrances ranged from somber to combative to the serving of a wrongful death lawsuit.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Highly Armed Man Arrested in San Jose for Stalking Former Employers San Jose police say they may have headed off a potential mass shooting, two people were shot in separate incidents in San Francisco, and the Bay Area's daily COVID case rate has risen 25 percent in the last week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink First Bay Area Eataly Location Gets an Opening Date, and Here Are Some Food Pics We have a June 16 Grand Opening now officially scheduled for Santa Clara’s Westfield Valley Fair location of the Italian food emporium Eataly, which will be a staggering three stories, 45,000 square feet, and have two dedicated restaurants.
SF News San Jose Cop Accused of Masturbating In Front of Mother and Daughter In Department's Latest Bizarre Scandal A department already reeling from police scandals involving a meth pipe and drinking on the job has an even more unsavory situation, as an officer is accused of indecent exposure toward a young woman and her mother while responding to a call.
SF News Grandfather and Uncle Arrested In San Jose Exorcism Murder Case There are a couple of more developments in the disturbing case of a three-year-old girl who was allegedly murdered last fall by her mother, grandfather, and uncle in an "exorcism-like ritual" in a back-room San Jose church.
SF News New Video Seems to Exonerate Police Shooting Victim in San Jose Taqueria Shooting As the San Jose PD struggles with the fallout from a police shooting at the La Victoria Taqueria, they’ve released a new video showing the guy they shot was not initially armed, and rather heroically had wrestled the gun away from a felonious assailant.
SF News Text Messages Show San Jose Officials Tried to Bury Alleged BART-to-San Jose Cost Overruns In light of text messages becoming public, San Jose and VTA officials are now doing an about-face, calling for scrutiny into cost overruns they’d previously disputed.
SF News 'Prolific' San Jose Thief Arrested After Police Find Cache of Millions of Dollars In Stolen Goods, Ghost Guns A 24-year-old alleged thief who police say was keeping storage lockers packed with millions of dollars worth of stolen property that he was selling online is now in the custody of San Jose police.
SF News Abducted Infant Found, Three Suspects In Custody In San Jose After 20-Hour Manhunt A three-month-old boy has been reunited with his family after a frantic search by law enforcement and surveillance video showing his abduction in a carseat on Monday.
SF News Five-Alarm Fire at Bay Area Home Depot Was so Hot That It Was Detectable From Space A few hours after a four-alarm fire razed the Port of Benicia, another large blaze erupted at the San Jose Home Depot store on the 900 block of Blossom Hill Road. In fact: The blaze got so hot that its heat signature could be observed from space.
SF News Woman Who Swiped $4K Bottle of Cognac From San Jose Restaurant ID'd as Mother of 6, Owner Not Pressing Charges The suspect has been identified in that brazen and ill-conceived theft of an expensive bottle of Remy Martin Louis XIII Cognac from a steakhouse on Mt. Hamilton last week, and she's very, very sorry.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Classy Crew Swipes $4,000 Bottle of Cognac on the Way Out of San Jose Steakhouse, Sheriff Investigating A group of 10 people who were dining last week at at an upscale steakhouse in San Jose appears to have wanted to take a special souvenir with them — and it was a very expensive bottle of booze.
SF News BART to San Jose ‘Likely’ Delayed Until 2034, If We Should Even Live That Long An internal document from the Federal Transit Administration says the BART to San Jose project will take four years longer — and cost twice as much to complete — as Bay Area transit authorities had once estimated.
SF News San Jose Man Charged With 20 Counts Of Burglary for Stealing Entire ATMs Filled With Cash Stealing whole ATMs full of cash may sound like a deviously brazen scheme, but when the suspect also steals an American Legion Hall’s donation box of eyeglasses for veterans, well, that’s where we draw the line.
