If the case against the 17-year-old suspect continues in juvenile court, few details about the arrest or the Nov. 28 incident, which shut down Northern California's biggest shopping center and left three injured, are likely to be made public. The mall reopened with additional security measures on Nov. 29.

The Westfield Valley Fair Mall, one of the largest shopping malls in California, reopened today at noon with increased police patrols and assurances that Friday’s shooting was an isolated incident.

Nearly 90 minutes after the 5:40pm report of the shooting at Westfield Valley Fair mall on Stephens Boulevard, San Jose police said there was “no ongoing threat to public safety.”

The ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit on behalf of local nonprofits. The lawsuit challenges San Jose police officers’ practice of searching for location information collected by automated license plate readers (ALPRs) without first getting a warrant.

The federal suit alleged that Facebook, which later became Meta, overpaid to acquire Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 as part of a strategy to eliminate social networking competitors.

As of Nov. 10, there remained just 7,000 ballots to be counted in the race for Santa Clara County Assessor, out of more than 460,000 votes.

Santa Clara County voters overwhelmingly approved an increase in local sales taxes, which county officials say is necessary to help offset dramatic cuts in federal aid by the Trump Administration, mostly in health care.

Prop 50's statewide victory margin swelled to 2.4 million votes as of Nov. 6.

The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters reported at 10:50pm Nov. 4 that Fligor, who also is vice mayor of Los Altos, was more than 43,000 votes ahead of Rishi Kumar, a former Saratoga City Council member and former candidate for Congress.

Most of the $95 million raised both for and against today’s ballot measure came from fewer than 20 total contributors.

When investigators searched Alfred Amaya's apartment, they found loaded weapons, multiple parts that transform guns into automatic weapons, and a 3D printer busy creating weapons parts for rifles.

The unions and Kaiser Permanente are close on a four-year total – 21.5% offered by Kaiser compared to 25% sought over four years by the unions. But the unions want nearly half of those increases – 12% – to occur in the first year.

The fate of Comerica’s 88 California branches and the name of the Detroit Tigers’ ballpark remain unclear, until the $10.9 billion deal is final next spring.

The Police Department stated that between January 2020 and January 2025, Margie Thompson, the only paid employee of the Keith Kelley Club, embezzled $43,000.

Tarrah Taylor, 26, Jeannessa Lurie, 24, and Max Ryan, 26, were killed by a single gun-wielding attacker in the early morning of Sept.16.  

Joseph Vicencio was charged today with three murder counts, in the shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her two friends in South San Jose early Tuesday. Two witnesses told police he admitted he was the killer.