San Jose police will also deploy drones to assist in identifying locations where illegal fireworks are being set off. Property owners may be subject to administrative fines of up to $100,000.

Gabby Chavez-Lopez conceded the race later Thursday morning, and congratulated Tordillos.

Santa Clara County’s longest serving elected official, 84-year-old Larry Stone, announced he will leave office July 6, 18 months early.

An FBI investigation found that Nathan Wu-Falkenborg used his access to confidential account information to activate and use numerous Direct Express pre-paid debit card accounts that had been funded but did not appear to be in use.

Francisco De-Jesus Morales, a national of Nicaragua, allegedly assaulted three ICE deportation officers at an ICE facility in San Jose as those officers attempted to take him into custody.

The late-night ruling by the Circuit Court of Appeals delayed until a June 17 hearing the order of a federal judge Thursday afternoon that said President Trump’s decision to order the National Guard into Los Angeles was illegal.

Tellez Solis, 27, of Marina, was indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2022, and pleaded guilty in February, 2025.

The agreement includes wage increases of 4%, 3.5%, 3% and 4% over a four-year term, with improved workplace policies and enhanced dental benefits, in line with other VTA unions.

Harry “Nicky” Nickerson, 16-years-old at the time, stabbed Diane Peterson in 1978 at Branham High School. Just this year, investigators learned that he had confessed the killing to a family member. Nickerson took his own life in 1993.

High temperatures, combined with motor vehicle exhaust, will create elevated levels of ozone.

Cold Case investigators and Vivian Moss’s surviving family are hoping the identification will lead them to Moss’s killer.

San Jose Fire Capt. Mark Moalem is accused of stealing controlled medications, including morphine, that are typically used by paramedics to treat the ill or injured in emergencies.

Waymo will be the first driverless taxi operator in San José, joining San Franciso and Los Angeles.

The settlement relates to a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant that Vimaan Robotics obtained from the National Science Foundation.

The DA's Cold Case Unit said the body of Jeanette Ralston, then 24-years-old and living in San Mateo, was found in the back seat of her Volkswagen Beetle near a San Jose apartment complex in 1977. Police said she had been strangled and raped, and the killer had tried unsuccessfully to burn the car.

In the settlement approved last week, Sun Bum was ordered by the court to pay $300,000 in civil penalties and to stop false advertising of any of its chemical sunscreens.