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Prosecutors said they were unable to gather enough evidence showing free lance filmmaker Jeremy Portje intended to injure a Sausalito officer in a Nov. 30 incident when police confiscated video equipment at a homeless encampment.

The new order is made in light of the emergence in Santa Clara County of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 and the 'imminent threat' that it poses to the health of vulnerable residents and the capacity of the healthcare system.

Worsening droughts, competition for scarce supplies, sea level rise, groundwater contamination, earthquakes, wildfires and extreme weather all contribute to California water woes.

In his annual State of the City report, Mayor Sam Liccardo said that in 2021, the city suffered through 'the loss of loved ones to a lingering pandemic, the horrors of mass shootings, the sight of encampments and shuttered storefronts, and the struggles of too many families unable to pay rent.'

Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld of The Chabad House said the Jewish synagogue on Branham Lane in San Jose was damaged by fire after 'someone lit a fire in the carport.'

CSU Students apparently won't be affected by a faculty walkout in the spring. as the state university system and its faculty union announce a tentative contract that includes raises and a COVID-19 bonus.

Three suspects in a rash of vehicle burglaries fled Sunnyvale police on foot and two of them were arrested a short time later with assistance from the air support unit of the San Jose Police Department. A third suspect remains at large.

Investigation of shots fired at busy shopping center kept shoppers, workers, sheltered in place.

A new report released this month by The Campaign for College Opportunity highlights that more eligible students are applying to the University of California and California State University campuses than those colleges can admit.

Mayor Sam Liccardo's proposed mandate would make San Jose the first city in California to require booster shots.

The three new congressional districts for the San Jose metro area include the first majority Latino district, and another that is the first predominantly Asian district.

To be fully up to date with COVID vaccine protection, people need to have a booster shot, said County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office arrested a San Jose man this week after he allegedly made threats involving a gun during a virtual VTA meeting.

The zoning changes will limit the number of single-family homes that can be built across the parts of Coyote Valley that do not fall within the boundaries of the cities of San Jose and Morgan Hill. 

A federal jury had returned 28 convictions of Michael Kail of Los Gatos onfraud and money laundering for payments from tech startups seeking Netflix contracts.