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.
SF News These Are the Nine VTA Employees Killed In Wednesday's Shooting In San Jose The nine men who were fatally shot Wednesday morning in one of the worst mass shootings the Bay Area has ever experienced have now been publicly identified, and here's what we know about them.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Massive Google Development Approved in San Jose Google's huge proposed 4,000-unit "village" in San Jose got city council approval, the mother of a Tenderloin fentanyl addict staged her own protest/press event today, and five Sonoma governments reached a settlement with PG&E over the 2019 Kincade Fire.
SF News Ex-Girlfriend Painted Frightening Picture of San Jose Shooter, Claims He Raped Her Hours after we learned of the shooting in San Jose that claimed the lives of eight Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) workers, we're hearing more details about the man believed solely responsible — who also took his own life.
SF News [Update] Mass Shooting Kills 9 at Downtown San Jose VTA Train Yard A mass shooting in San Jose has claimed multiple lives and caused multiple injuries in a Wednesday morning tragedy the details of which are still trickling out. Reportedly nine people are dead, all VTA employees.
SF News Plea Delayed For Suspect In San Jose Hate-Crime Assault As Competency Is Assessed A man accused in an alleged physical and sexual assault at a San Jose train station in March that came with anti-Asian epithets remains in jail without bail, but he has not yet entered a plea in the case.
SF News 111-Year-Old San Jose Building To Be Moved Sunday — And Will Become Affordable Housing Units Having now seen two pandemics, the four-unit Pallesen apartment building at 14 East Reed Street in San Jose is expected to be relocated to its new address tomorrow — less than a quarter-mile from its current one.
SF News San Francisco Man Arrested for Assaulting Asian Woman At San Jose Caltrain Station A San Francisco man was arrested Wednesday for a hate crime and sexual assault, following an incident in which he allegedly hurled racial slurs at a young Asian woman and assaulted her in a pedestrian tunnel at San Jose's Diridon Station.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Santa Clara County Sent Inspectors to Sports Bars on Super Bowl Sunday to Check COVID Compliance Lots of bars around the Bay Area had outdoor setups with tables for watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, some likely more safe than others. And in Santa Clara County, they had inspectors making surprise visits to enforce all the rules.
SF News Woman Dies After Car Plows Into Outdoor Dining Area In San Jose The story of a car that injured eight people when it drove into a restaurant's outdoor dining area on Sunday afternoon took a tragic turn Monday when one of the eight victims died from her injuries.
