According to the plea agreement, Brooke Campbell Solis of Austin, Tex., acknowledged that she used these privileges to defraud her former employer and embezzle money from the company, which was not identified.

Between 2011 and 2019, Racho Jordanov, as President and CEO of JHL Biotech, obtained and possessed confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information from Genentech, and used it to accelerate the timeline for and to reduce the costs of JHL Biotech’s development and production of copies of Genentech products.

Charges filed last week allege that Dhirendra Prasad, 52 of Mountain House in San Joaquin County, committed federal felonies over more than a decade while employed at Apple.

New data from urban areas suggests that people are ignoring the governor’s pleas for voluntary conservation during the drought.

The Newsom administration plans to spend $4.4 billion addressing mental health needs among young people. But will it come soon enough?

In San José over the past five years, 57% of all traffic fatalities happened during the dark hours of the day, with over 30% of those incidents caused by speeding.

Income inequality grew in California during three of the last four recessions before the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers are trying to figure out if the same happened in 2020.

California’s economic recovery from the devastations of the pandemic was stronger than previously estimated — but skyrocketing inflation could rob the state of its hard-earned gains.

The San Jose Downtown Association is undertaking a nationwide search to replace longtime executive director Scott Knies, who was promoted to chief executive officer last week. Knies will step down Nov. 1, 2022, after 34 years with the organization, as part of a planned succession anticipated in its August 2020 strategic plan.

Total employment in the region is up nearly 171,000 since April 2020.

One option for California lawmakers is to decrease the state tax on gas suppliers. Another is some form of rebate to help defray the higher cost of gas.

A federal grand jury had indicted Dr. John Giacomini n March 2020, charging him with one count of abusive sexual contact with a subordinate at the VA hospital in Palo Alto. Giacomini pleaded guilty to the charge, which is a felony.  

Smith, who started with the Sheriff's Office in 1973 and has been sheriff since 1998, blasted attacks against her tenure as politically motivated.

Scott Shaw, 54, the former Director of Sports Medicine and athletic trainer at San Jose State University, was charged March 8 with civil rights violations for engaging in sexual misconduct with female student-athletes under the guise of treating them for their injuries

News of Brian Bates' death of natural causes resulted in an outpouring of comments and remarks on social media from students, alumnil, colleagues and San Jose State administrators.

Tetiana Perebyinis, chief accountant for a Palo Alto tech startup working in Ukraine, and her two children were killed March 6 by Russian mortar shelling as they tried to flee Irpin, near Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.