Peter Michael Columbo, a 55-year-old Redwood City resident, was a part-time coach employed by the city in Palo Alto's middle school athletic program, at Greene (formerly Jordan) Middle School between 2015 and 2019. 

A customer at a Mountain View Starbucks and an employee at a Cupertino T-Mobile store were attacked last week in separate hate crime incidents.

With 33.6% – 56,011 votes – of nearly 167,000 votes reported June 8 at 5pm, Jonsen led retired sheriff’s captain Kevin Jensen, who had the support of 30.5% – 50,951 – of the votes.

The female suspect got out of a car and told the elerly pedestrian that she reminded her of her mother and asked if she could give her a piece of her mother's jewelry.

The Stanford strike comes at a time of labor turmoil among nursing staffs at hospitals across the state. Stanford contract negotiations are to resume on Tuesday.

Palo Alto police learned that a woman in her 50s had been sitting in her parked car when someone opened her passenger door and demanded her purse and keys.

A federal grand jury had indicted Dr. John Giacomini n March 2020, charging him with one count of abusive sexual contact with a subordinate at the VA hospital in Palo Alto. Giacomini pleaded guilty to the charge, which is a felony.  

Tetiana Perebyinis, chief accountant for a Palo Alto tech startup working in Ukraine, and her two children were killed March 6 by Russian mortar shelling as they tried to flee Irpin, near Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

The former City of Santa Clara councilman is accused of forging six Foothill-DeAnza Community College pay stubs for 2021 – even though he last worked for the college in 2019 – in seeking to obtain a $690,000 loan from Finance of America Mortgage.

Police arrest suspect one hour later after neighbor spotted him hiding in her detached garage with a stolen bicycle.

The three new congressional districts for the San Jose metro area include the first majority Latino district, and another that is the first predominantly Asian district.

The Highway 101 Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridge spans 1,400 feet in length from the West Bayshore Road landing to the East Bayshore Road landing. 

Officers encourage anyone who witnesses a property crime like an auto burglary to immediately call the police, keep the suspects under observation from a safe distance and provide a full description to help officers apprehend them.

In announcing the Tesla headquarters move at the company’s annual shareholder meeting at the site of a new Tesla building near Austin, CEO Elon Musk said he will expand Tesla production at the Fremont factory.

The Santa Clara District Attorney's Office filed charges against Jennifer Colvin, the former human resources director for Rangoon Ruby and Burma Ruby in Palo Alto.

This is not the first time this year the West Nile virus has been detected in mosquitoes in Santa Clara County. The county detected cases and treated areas of Santa Clara and Sunnyvale at the end of August.