When investigators searched Alfred Amaya's apartment, they found loaded weapons, multiple parts that transform guns into automatic weapons, and a 3D printer busy creating weapons parts for rifles.

After a jury convicted Paul Zumot in 2011, the hookah shop owner was sentenced to 33 years to life in prison. However, a federal district court judge in 2020 granted him a new trial.

The case is believed to be the first prosecution of transgender domestic violence homicide in Santa Clara County. 

Police reported that during violent incidents that began more than a year ago at his Morgan Hill home, Officer Timothy Hackney threw his girlfriend into a bedroom and would not let her leave, forcibly covered her mouth so she couldn’t scream and slapped a phone out of her hand so that she couldn’t call 911.

One suspect in one of the three separate San Jose homicide incidents is in custody, the prime suspect in another killing died in a car accident while fleeing the scene and one or more suspects in a fatal shooting remained at large as of today.

Federal funding for domestic violence shelters and housing programs is declining. Advocates want the state to step in, but with a record projected deficit, new spending is unlikely.

The female officer, who has not been identified, was seriously wounded in Wednesday's shooting, when a single bullet struck her in the abdomen below her bulletproof vest, causing serious injury to her intestine, colon, liver and gall bladder, and fracturing her spine, according to District Attorney Jeff Rosen. 

The native San Jose transgender woman’s murder has devastated, but not shocked, friends, family and the South Bay drag scene.

While the numbers are trending downward, advocates say the work to curb domestic violence is far from done.

While law enforcement may be getting fewer calls about family violence, community organizations have been inundated with pleas for help.

SCCOE trustee Darcie Green’s romance with a convicted abuser ended on a regrettable, unsurprisingly violent note.

Santa Clara County saw a steep increase in domestic violence-related deaths in 2017, which saw six more fatalities than in 2016.

Santa Clara County officials have proposed a 400 percent funding increase to help domestic violence survivors.

Seven people died as a result of domestic violence last year in Santa Clara County, according to a new report.

Santa Clara County saw a sharp uptick in the number of domestic violence-related deaths from 2014 to last year, according to new data.

The husband of Assembly candidate Darcie Green has a long history of abusing women. For a variety of reasons, the story should not be ignored.