The female suspect got out of a car and told the elerly pedestrian that she reminded her of her mother and asked if she could give her a piece of her mother's jewelry.

The separate killings were the city's ninth and 10th homicides of the year.

Last week, at least 65 students at Los Gatos High School tested positive for Covid. Nationwide, new Covid infections have increased substantially in the past month, with California adding more than 158,000 new cases during that time.

Building B at the Guadalupe Light Rail yard, which began being demolished Wednesday afternoon with the work expected to continue Thursday, May 12, is where six of the 10 VTA employees died in the mass shooting on May 26, 2021.

The U.S. Drought Monitor report from May 3 shows 92% of California in a severe drought and about 40% of the state experiencing extreme drought conditions. 

Seventy-one elected officials in Santa Clara County have signed a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom supporting his efforts to preserve abortion rights in California if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade case.

The first contract package, for the tunnel and trackwork, for $235 million, has been awarded to Kiewit Shea Traylor

The investigation linked Matthew Freudenblum, 24, of Sunnyvale to two different storage facilities as likely warehousing locations for stolen goods.

Supervisors voted unanimously to give $3 million to a Planned Parenthood office in San Jose to help expand its medical and reproductive care services n anticipation of an increase in women both in the county and from other states seeking abortion services. 

Goal of new Office of Youth and Community Restoration is to return youth offenders to their communities, says former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge.

BART reversed itself to reinstate masks, even though the California Department of Public Health also announced last week that it would align with the CDC and drop its own mask requirement for public transit and transit hubs like bus stations and airports.

Jose Portillo and Yesenia Ramirez were charged with kidnapping in Santa Clara County Superior Court today and are being held without bail. A third suspect arrested on April 26, Baldomeo Sandoval, was released from custody and will not be charged, police said.

Santa Clara County will receive $16.7 million to buy and convert the Crestview Hotel in Mountain View into 48 housing units for chronically homeless residents, homeless youth and young people at risk of becoming homeless. The county has already approved spending roughly $23 million on the project in addition to the state funding, which means each apartment unit will cost approximately $827,000. 

The unusual orders require the plaintiffs and their lawyers to submit declarations under the penalty of perjury that prove they genuinely intend to return to the places that were inaccessible when they first visited.

The long-term multiunit investigation identified and arrested six men who allegedly worked in concert between October 2021 and January 2022 to commit smash-and-grab thefts in San Jose.

San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe announced felony charges against Ronald Galatolo, including an allegation that he allegedly fraudulently reported a $10,000 charitable donation to the Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation Fire Relief Fund.