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.
SF News Man With Rifle Causing Standoff at San Jose UPS Station, Police Attempting to Negotiate UPS employees have been sheltering in place since about 8 a.m. Tuesday morning, as a man with "what is believed to be a rifle" was menacing a San Jose neighborhood and is now barricaded in an RV.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose Mall Shooting Leads to Chaos, Looting A shooting at San Jose's Oakridge Mall led to chaos Monday but no victim has been located, Oakland police are forming a new policing district to combat violence, and the NHL is pausing the season from Wednesday to Sunday due to COVID.
SF News Catalytic Converter Theft Ring Busted, And — Surprise! — Auto Repair Shops Allegedly In On the Game San Jose police arrested 15 suspects for stealing and selling catalytic converters, but more interestingly, they say three auto shops were “knowingly purchasing stolen catalytic converters from street criminals.”
SF News San Jose Police and Mayor Decry Release of Two Homicide Suspects Without Bail; Attorney Says It's a Self-Defense Case It's not just San Francisco where fingers are being pointed in multiple directions in the ongoing debate about criminal justice reform, accountability, and the efficacy of the justice system to combat crime.
SF News VTA Shooting Victim's Widow Thinks Mass Shooters' Assets Should Belong to Their Victims Families Terra Fritch lost her husband in the May 26 mass shooting at the VTA rail yard in San Jose, and now she's seeking new legislation to help compensate victims families after these all-too-frequent tragedies.
SF News San Jose Man Posing as ‘Spiritual Healer’ Allegedly Raped 15-Year-Old Girl Police say there could be more victims of this 42-year-old suspect accused of 10 felony counts of sex crimes against a juvenile, after telling the girl he was a “spiritual healer.”
SF News Slingshot Bandit Terrorizes Bay Area Windows Again, This Time in San Jose A substantial $20,000 reward is being offered in the case of a serial San Jose slingshot bandit, the reward likely being so large because the shooter keeps hitting windows at the Santa Clara District Attorney’s office.
SF News Video: Huge San Jose Sideshow Results in 205 Citations, a Mere One Arrest San Jose continues to draw more and larger sideshows than even SF or Oakland, and a five-minute video has emerged from this weekend’s dangerous, donut-skidmark affair.
SF News San Jose Police Recover Two Stolen French Bulldogs Following Arrest of Suspected Gang Members Two French bulldogs — a mother and one of her puppies — have been recovered and reunited with their owner in San Jose following the arrest of three men suspected of a multitude of crimes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Lands In San Jose Swimming Pool Smoke from West Coast wildfires is already blowing over New York, a car landed in a San Jose swimming pool, and neighborhood groups in Berkeley are suing to stop a deal struck between the city and UC Berkeley about the school's expansion plans.
SF News San Jose Mayor at White House Today to Discuss Curbing Gun Violence San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and multiple other mayors from around the country are meeting President Biden at the White House for what's been described as a high-level strategy session on addressing the rise in gun violence nationwide.
SF News You Can Now Go to Jail for Tweeting About Sideshows in San Jose The San Jose City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve an ordinance that will levy fines and threaten jail time for promoters of illegal sideshows on social media.
SF News San Jose Woman Allegedly Confessed to Strangling 7-Year-Old Son Because She Was Frustrated With Him The 35-year-old San Jose woman arrested in Denver on June 8 following the discovery a week earlier of her 7-year-old son's body near a hiking trail in Las Vegas has reportedly confessed to killing the boy in frustration.
SF News San Jose Restaurant Crash Blamed On Cocaine, Blowjob A tragic incident last Friday outside a sports bar in San Jose, in which a woman at the bar was killed when a pickup truck crashed into an outdoor dining area, apparently involved oral sex and an intoxicated patron.
SF News Santa Clara Sheriff Releases Body Cam Footage From Last Week's VTA Shooting The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office has released body-worn camera footage from the department's response to the mass shooting at the VTA maintenance yard last Wednesday.
SF News San Jose Gunman Was Being Disciplined For Racist Remarks In Workplace Of course, it is coming to light that the man who killed nine of his coworkers before taking his own life had been recently reported for making racist comments at work.