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The Santa Clara City Library will expand in-person services in the coming weeks. The Mission and Northside branch libraries will expand the week of July 26 and Central Park Library will expand in-person services the week of Aug. 23.

California would be the first state to adopt a state-funded guaranteed income program, funding pilot projects that would guarantee some people, especially foster youth and pregnant women, an income floor. Santa Clara County’s pilot program provides $1,000 a month to 72 foster youth.

The man recovering from gunshot wounds was charged with burglary; the resident who shot the intruder did not know him, and was not charged, police said..

The recommendation comes amid an increase in COVID-19 cases, almost exclusively among the unvaccinated, and the proliferation of the more-transmissible Delta variant. 

The two were also charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a case that included four other people.

National Night Out is an annual crime prevention event that promotes community building and police-community partnerships to make neighborhoods safer and more caring places to live. National Night Out is sponsored nationally by the National Association of Town Watch and co-sponsored locally by the San José Police Department.

Experts say the number of ransomware attacks against school computer systems in California and across the country are rising as educators try to figure out whether cybersecurity should be a priority.

The National Association for Gun Rights, which considers itself the “conservative alternative” to the National Rifle Association, says the city would violate the Second Amendment by imposing a tax on citizens exercising their right to keep and bear arms. 

San Jose’s commitment to activating the city’s public spaces gets tested at civic plaza.

The Santa Clara County Democratic Party Central Committee barely passed a resolution accusing Israel of breaking international law.

The VTA this week gave no new date for a resumption of service suspended since the May 26 mass killing at the VTA rail yards in San Jose.

San Jose police have not yet identified the homicide victim, and did not identify Ishihara until today’s announcement on Twitter. The press release gave no further details about the incident, the victim or the alleged assailant.

After a year-long wait, the campaign finance watchdog has a proposal to require elected officials to provide more information on special interest donations to their nonprofits.

The half-acre park to be located near San Pedro Square is inspired by the plum orchards that once grew in the area and is named after French immigrant Louis Pellier who is considered the founder of the prune industry. 

Undercover operation busts three Stockton men on pandering and weapons charges