SF News Day Around the Bay: Nine Arrested in Alleged Santa Clara County Sex Trafficking Ring Nextdoor is laying off 25% of their staff, BART is hyping another batch of seemingly encouraging ridership rebound numbers, and Santa Clara County prosecutors say they've busted a significant sex trafficking ring.
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 News Day Around the Bay: Santa Clara DA Leaves Twitter, Urges Other DAs to Do So Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen is leaving Twitter over hate speech, there was a 3.7M earthquake near San Jose today, and Newsom is proposing a penalty for oil companies' price gouging.
SF Politics Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith Convicted On All Counts In Corruption Trial A civil grand jury has found her guilty on all six counts she was charged with, including corruption and willful misconduct.
SF News Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith Ends Career In Scandal, After Otherwise Distinguished Tenure Laurie Smith was the first woman ever elected sheriff in California, and has served as Santa Clara County Sheriff since 1998, but just resigned in disgrace as a corruption trial was likely to force her out anyway.
SF News Day Around the Bay: State Charges Filed Against Pelosi Attacker; Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith Resigns DA Brooke Jenkins announced attempted murder and other charges against Pelosi attack suspect David DePape, Elon Musk dissolved Twitter's board, and Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith is retiring a couple months earlier than planned.
Business & Tech Santa Clara County Sues Rihanna’s Lingerie Brand Over Allegedly Deceptive Recurring Monthly Fees People who bought bras and underwear from Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty label were allegedly enrolled in a recurring monthly fee program without their knowledge, according to a lawsuit from the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office.
SF News Hate Crime Charges for Homeless Mountain View Woman Who Allegedly Attacked Teen Wearing Headscarf A July 1 incident where an unsheltered woman allegedly strangled a teen in a hijab and called her a “terrorist” will be heard as a hate crime in a Santa Clara County courthouse today.
SF News Vacaville Woman Charged With Setting 10 Los Altos Wildfires In One Day It was a busy Saturday for the Santa Clara County Fire Department, the local Cal Fire Unit, and the Foothill-De Anza Community College Police Department, as they battled 10 fires — all allegedly set by the same person.
SF Politics Embattled Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith Announces Retirement After a year in which the county's board of supervisors mounted pressure to oust her, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith announced Thursday that she plans to retire in January and not run for re-election.
SF News Santa Clara County Will Follow Rest of Region and Lift Mask Order Next Week Two weeks behind San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area, Santa Clara County will be lifting its indoor public mask mandate next week — though, like the rest of the region, unvaccinated people are still on the honor system and supposed to be masking up.
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 Jailed Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Still Has Not Entered Plea, Will Spend Xmas In the Clink Accused, possibly pervy corrupter of teenagers/sexual assault enabler Shannon O'Connor has gotten a new attorney, and she has yet to enter a plea in the Santa Clara County case involving multiple alleged teen victims.
SF News Six Bay Area Men Arrested For a Staggering 70 Attacks on Asian Women The suspects allegedly targeted Asian women exclusively, according to the Santa Clara DA, and had a pattern of attacking women walking alone to their cars.
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 New Analysis Finds Younger Latinx Residents of Santa Clara County Were Far Likelier to Die of COVID-19 Than White Residents Providing further evidence of the racial inequities of the pandemic, new analysis of COVID cases and deaths in Santa Clara County finds that the virus killed mostly elderly white residents, but deaths among Latinx residents skewed much younger.
SF News All Three Major COVID Variants Now Present In Bay Area As Santa Clara County Confirms First 'P.1' Case Santa Clara County health officials confirmed on Thursday that the first case of the "P.1" variant, first identified in Brazil, has been found in the Bay Area.
SF News 4,500 People Were No-Shows For Vaccines In Santa Clara County During First Week of Levi's Stadium Site Over 4,500 Santa Clara County residents didn't show up for vaccine appointments they made last week, during the first week of Levi's Stadium being operational, prompting calls for the county to set up waitlists and make sure that no vaccine doses go to waste.
SF News Santa Clara County Sheriff's Deputy Apparently Faked a Hate Crime Against Himself A sheriff's deputy in Santa Clara County has been arrested and accused of fabricating a hate-crime incident last January in which he claimed to have been shot at by suspects in a passing vehicle on a remote road.
SF News Santa Clara County Begins Running Low on ICU Beds Amid COVID Surge Santa Clara County's ICU bed capacity was rapidly filling up this week amid a surge in COVID cases around the region.
Bay Area Sports Santa Clara County Swiftly Axes 'Faithful' Hopes of Levi's Stadium Reopening Soon As Jimmy Garoppolo walked off the field Sunday following a 24-16 win against the Los Angeles Rams, he stopped for a moment to wave at the paper cutouts in the empty bleachers, taking
SF News Alameda County Moves to 'Orange' Tier But Will Not Open Indoor Dining Yet; Santa Clara County to Allow 25% Capacity Both Alameda and Santa Clara County moved into the state's "orange" tier status for pandemic reopening, joining San Francisco in the second-least severe group of counties with only "moderate" virus spread.
SF News Gilroy-Based Boogaloo Follower Arrested For Threats Against Public Health Officer A 55-year-old community college instructor in the South Bay, has been arrested for allegedly making repeated criminal threats against Santa Clara County Public Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody.
SF News COVID-19 Outbreak Hits Fish Packing Plant in Santa Clara County Nearly 40 cases of coronavirus have been traced to the Lusamerica Fish Company in Morgan Hill, and employees’ relatives charge that the company kept it under wraps.
SF News New Autopsies Show Community Transmission of the Coronavirus In Santa Clara County In January or Earlier A new piece has emerged in the incomplete puzzle of when and how the novel coronavirus, a.k.a. SARS-CoV-2, arrived in the U.S., and it is bound to shift how researchers and the Centers for Disease Control see their timelines for this pandemic.
