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The case against the sheriff will proceed because San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Nancy Fineman, in a ruling filed Thursday, rejected Smith’s requests that misconduct charges be dismissed.

Goal of new Office of Youth and Community Restoration is to return youth offenders to their communities, says former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge.

California’s community college enrollment plummeted during the pandemic. Here are the stories of some of the students who left.

BART reversed itself to reinstate masks, even though the California Department of Public Health also announced last week that it would align with the CDC and drop its own mask requirement for public transit and transit hubs like bus stations and airports.

Jose Portillo and Yesenia Ramirez were charged with kidnapping in Santa Clara County Superior Court today and are being held without bail. A third suspect arrested on April 26, Baldomeo Sandoval, was released from custody and will not be charged, police said.

Santa Clara County will receive $16.7 million to buy and convert the Crestview Hotel in Mountain View into 48 housing units for chronically homeless residents, homeless youth and young people at risk of becoming homeless. The county has already approved spending roughly $23 million on the project in addition to the state funding, which means each apartment unit will cost approximately $827,000. 

California Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower cited Foster Farms, LLC, Foster Poultry Farms, Viking Staffing CA LLC, Human Bees Inc. and Marcos Renteria Ag Services. Inc. for failing to pay workers when they sick with COVID-19.

San Jose's venerable Fairmont has been reinvented as Signia, a new modern luxury concept hotel.

Suwanna Kerdkaew, formerly the department's deputy chief of administration, replaces former chief Tony Bowden, who retired after being on injury leave.

At a press conference late this morning, San Jose police said the three suspects in custody have some connection to the family of kidnapped 3-month-old Brandon Cuellar, taken from his home Monday afternoon.

The Stanford strike comes at a time of labor turmoil among nursing staffs at hospitals across the state. Stanford contract negotiations are to resume on Tuesday.

Twitter agreed to sell itself to Musk for $54.20 a share, a 38 percent premium over the company’s share price. It would be the largest deal to take a company private in at least two decades.

Settlement resolves class action lawsuits brought by customers of  San Jose-based Zoom, including a San Francisco church after 'zoombomber' streamed porn into a Bible study class in May 2020.

Criminal charges were announced against a man and a woman in Santa Cruz County and three other Californians, as well as owners and executives of medical businesses, physicians and manufacturers of fake COVID-19 vaccination record cards with losses greater than $149 million.

The state Department of Public Health notified diagnostics company PerkinElmer that its no-bid contract worth as much as $1.7 billion to operate the Valencia Branch Laboratory for Covid tests would end on May 15, months ahead of schedule.