San Jose Inside

Daniel Widyanto Condronimpino, 34, of Palm Beach, Fla., is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a pedestrian tunnel that connects California and Alma avenues in Palo Alto on April 9.

The 42nd annual local festival was scheduled to take place May 27-28 in downtown Morgan Hill, but the nonprofit Mardi Gras organization that produces the Mushroom Festival still plans to host an entertaining summer fundraising event.

The federal grant targets unsheltered and rural homelessness in San Jose and Santa Clara County.

The mayor said the new temporary housing units for unhoused residents will be built “at a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the construction time of building long-term permanent housing.”

After being contacted by the District Attorney’s Office, Granite Rock installed water treatment systems along Coyote Creek and agreed to five years training, testing and oversight conditions.   

Judge Evette Pennypacker ruled that Calvary Chapel San Jose is liable to pay the fines and interest after the church held indoor services and other gatherings and did not require attendees to wear a face covering.

Sen. Dave Cortese of San Jose began pushing for the audit after touring a massive homeless encampment on vacant land near the San Jose Mineta International Airport. San Jose will be one of two cities targeted by the audit.

Undergraduate student assistants at California State University are mounting a union organizing campaign, calling for more work hours, paid sick time and higher wages.

The grand jury report, titled "Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Santa Clara City Council," alleged unethical relationships between multiple members of the City Council and the 49ers. Becker allegedly leaked a draft of the report at least three days ahead of its planned Oct.10 release.

The San Mateo County District Attorney's Office announced this week that five officers who shot and killed a domestic violence suspect in Redwood City in November will not be charged in the case. Abran Gutierrez, 36, died in the shooting on Nov. 15 on El Camino Real, a main thoroughfare in the city, near the intersection with Maple Street, police and prosecutors said.

Annie Corbett, the owner of Corbett Homes, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Wednesday to spend 12 months and a day in prison for wire fraud and failure to pay employment taxes.

Corbett pleaded guilty to the charges on Sept.15. She was the owner, CEO and president of Corbett Group Homes, Inc.

Spinning off parks from underfunded government departments to entities that work closely with them has created “a golden age” for urban parks.

California law requires law enforcement agencies to release body cam footage of police shootings. Many departments shape those images into stories they want to tell.

A new loan program for first-time home buyers only served a couple thousand borrowers, most of them white, non-Latino and living in the Sacramento area.

One day after the police union announced it would hire an independent investigator, San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata said on Twitter there would be no internal departmental investigation of possible police officer involvement in illegal activities at the 1,100-member union.