A San Jose police officer tased a woman and shot her husband following an altercation that occurred as they left a downtown restaurant and nightclub around 1am Sunday morning, according to witness reports. San Jose Police Department spokesman Jermaine Thomas confirmed that a weapon was discharged, that a man was “taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries,” and that the call came in a few minutes before 1am. He declined to provide other details as of 4am Sunday.

Former San Jose State University literature professor Shelby Steele, now a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, is in the news today for taking issue with the GOP’s distribution of a racially inappropriate video, Barack, the Magic Negro.

Fresh from a pummeling in the media and at a public hearing for disproportionately arresting drunk Latinos (memo to Rob Davis: bust more random Anglos, like your predecessor Bill Landsdowne), the SJPD is fending off a new controversy over a macho training video that will no doubt have local liberal pantywaists up in arms over its violent imagery.  CBS 5 News aired a segment Friday on the video Friday and SJPD webmasters promptly pulled down the video link, though we managed to track down a copy.

Rumors have swirled that San Jose Magazine was about to bite the dust, and confirmation came this evening with an item by the Mercury News’ Sal Pizarro. The columnist reports that the December issue will be San Jose Magazine’s last. Instead of plugging plastic surgeons and lawyers on glossy pages, the company will reinvent itself as a video production company, according to Publisher Gilbert Sangari.