The fire was reported to the San Jose Police Department at 8:24am Saturday in dry vegetation just inside the San Jose city limits near Meadowlands Lane and Wild Meadow Way. 

A man was arrested without incident after a two-hour standoff Monday evening and charged with the death of a woman inside a residence near Watson Park east of downtown San Jose.

San Jose Police officers were investigating a disturbance in the 6100 block of San Ignacio Avenue when they made contact with an armed man who allegedly shot at them and hit two officers.

One day after the downtown altercation, NAACP chapter President Rev. Jethroe Moore sent an email to acting Police Chief Paul Joseph critical of the arrest of the alleged attacker.

Investigators said Tayesha Knight wrote approximately 45 fraudulent checks totaling over $400,000 to herself, which she claimed were reimbursement for nonexistent services at Shallenberger Elementary School.

Eddie Aubrey, currently working with the Richmond Police Department, has been investigating police misconduct since 2016

While the crime spike resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has receded in most parts of the country, California stands out as a stark aberration, with persistently high rates of violent crime and a spike in property offenses.

The DA task force had been focusing on disarming people ordered by the court to not have guns, but this was the first seizure of a weapons arsenal.

The preliminary DUI pilot program in Santa Clara County will be limited to arrestees who are non-violent, first-time misdemeanor DUI arrestees to avoid spending time in jail, while receiving alcohol-related support services at the Mission Street Recovery Station in San Jose.

After initially pushing back on protestors’ allegations, the city agreed last month to settle the case before trial.

Research shows that sideshow posts can attract hundreds of people in a matter of minutes. We are asking social media platforms to work with our police department to suspend the accounts of people who post content promoting these events.

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. 

Police had surrounded an apartment in downtown San Jose this morning, where one female officer was wounded by a gunshot while standing at a doorway.

Officers said the motive and circumstances around the two fatal stabbings are under investigation.

Nam Le laundered millions of dollars in payroll for Atlas Private Security, owned by Robert Foster, a former San Jose police officer who was sentenced last year to three years in prison for insurance fraud, money laundering, tax evasion and worker exploitation.

Karyn Sinunu-Towery is a former assistant district attorney and victims’ rights advocate with the Northern California Innocence Project.