In a series of tweets that began at 7:28pm Wednesday, San Jose police reported that officers shot a carjacking suspect near West Hedding Street and Park Avenue, at the city's western boundary with Santa Clara.

About 150 scholars are vetted as of this month, and about a dozen universities are ready to offer jobs to qualified Afghan instructors. but only two scholars, both referred from San Jose State, have arrived, one at UC Berkeley, the other at the University of Texas at El Paso. 

Police arrest suspect one hour later after neighbor spotted him hiding in her detached garage with a stolen bicycle.

Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, which serves Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, is reporting an increase in requests for home delivery of free groceries, as more people are forced to isolate due to exposure or illness related to the omicron variant.

Individuals appearing in person for a Superior Court hearing will still be allowed access to the courts, while individuals appearing to submit a pleading in person for filing with the court may enter only to place the pleading in the drop box.

Campbell, a writer and musician, is curator of Beautiful Black Books as part of Poetry Center San Jose and conducts lectures, workshops in creative writing and spiritual verse.

The contract agreement with Santa Clara Valley Transportation workers was reached months ahead of the current contract expiration that would have occurred in September.

The statewide mandate includes prohibitions over watering yards, washing cars without a shutoff nozzle, hosing down sidewalks or watering grass within 48 hours after rainfall. 

San Jose Police used crisis intervention techniques to take into custody a man iarmed with an axe and knife who was vandalizing businesses at a shopping center early today

A San Jose jury on Jan. 3 found Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes guilty of four federal charges for defrauding investors, but not guilty of four charges related to defrauding patients.  Holmes, founder and CEO of the now-defunct blood-testing company, had been charged with 11 counts related to lying to investors, doctors and patients.   

The homicide suspect was hospitalized with injuries after the Sunday afternoon car chase from Milpitas into Fremont. Police declined to identify the 42-year-old suspect or the 35-year-old victim.

Assembly Democrats want to use $10 billion out of a projected $30 billion surplus to repair and expand K-12 school facilities to accommodate new transitional kindergarten and community schools approved in 2021.

Prosecutors said they were unable to gather enough evidence showing free lance filmmaker Jeremy Portje intended to injure a Sausalito officer in a Nov. 30 incident when police confiscated video equipment at a homeless encampment.

Three suspects in a rash of vehicle burglaries fled Sunnyvale police on foot and two of them were arrested a short time later with assistance from the air support unit of the San Jose Police Department. A third suspect remains at large.

A new report released this month by The Campaign for College Opportunity highlights that more eligible students are applying to the University of California and California State University campuses than those colleges can admit.

To be fully up to date with COVID vaccine protection, people need to have a booster shot, said County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody.