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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

A look inside San Jose politics and culture

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San Jose 9-1-1 Dispatcher Charged with Insurance Fraud

Wendy Vaccaro is set to be arraigned at 1:30pm today at the Hall of Justice. She faces jail time if convicted of the felony fraud charges.

Weeks after a gunman killed three people in Gilroy, Sam Liccardo has introduced a sweeping initiative to prevent future massacres.

The 57-year-old high-tech program manager is up against Sergio Lopez for Campbell Council’s newly created District 2 seat.

Attendees caught in the gunfire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on that tragic day last month now face a long road to recovery.

Authorities say it appeared that the killer, a 19-year-old Gilroy native, was “interested in several violent ideologies.”

The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner ruled the Gilroy gunman’s death a suicide, which contradicts police reports.

As city officials push for a more vibrant downtown, Councilman Raul Peralez wants to allow more businesses to sell alcohol.

The Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting, which took three innocent lives, underscores the intractability of gun violence in America.

Erstwhile SCCOE Superintendent Xavier De La Torre has been making headlines down in Texas for less-than-upstanding behavior.

As news broke on Sunday that a gunman had open fired on a crowd at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, local officials poured out words of support.

Hundreds of people flooded Gavilan College’s parking lot after the festival shooting to find loved ones who were separated in the chaos.

Four people were killed and at least a dozen wounded in a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival Sunday evening.

Margo Rosen—Rep. Jackie Speier’s former district director—was caught on video aggressively berating a supporter of 45.

Each campaign season brings its sign swindlers. But council candidate Jenny Higgins Bradanini had to deal with that and then some.

A convicted serial predator was sentenced to nearly four centuries in prison for sexually assaulting six women in the South Bay.

It’s unclear whether a ban on convincing video forgeries, known as deepfakes, would pass constitutional muster.