The DA claims that a sheriff’s official falsified an application for a concealed carry weapon permit for the South County supervisor.

The probe targeting Sheriff Laurie Smith’s inner circle was triggered by San Jose Inside’s inquiry into a suspicious campaign contribution.

Sources confirmed that DA investigators descended upon the Younger Avenue office on Thursday and took Sung’s computer and other items.

The Chronicle ran an article that featured some previously unpublished info about the DA investigation into Sheriff Smith and her allies.

Santa Clara County’s six-term sheriff and her closest allies are the subject of an ongoing criminal inquiry led by the office of DA Jeff Rosen.

Authorities have released the names of the Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputy and the elderly man he shot to death in his Saratoga home Monday.

A spate of new laws will reduce penalties for minors as part of a push by policymakers to keep kids out of the criminal justice system.

A 57-year-old Santa Clara County inmate, whose name is being withheld, died in the hospital Thursday, according to jail officials.

A 36-year-old Santa Clara County inmate died at the hospital Monday, authorities confirmed.

Sheriff Laurie Smith left in the middle of a hearing on jail reforms Tuesday, but her early exit rubbed some people the wrong way.