The FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000, based on belief that someone has information that can help move the investigation forward.

Former Sheriff’s Capt. James Jensen and former security firm executive Thomas Moyer were found not guilty late this afternoon, and a mistrial was declared for former undersheriff Rick Sung, after a nearly month-long trial in Santa Clara County Superior Court.

At a press conference today, the victim was identified as Regulus Teotico, 45, a bus driver for 10 years and father of two teenagers.

A VTA employees was shot and killed Friday evening at the VTA Chaboya Division Yard on the 2200 block of South 7th Street near Costco and the County Fairgrounds.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department said that the high-speed pursuit continued after the driver of the stolen car struck a patrol car.

Sukhdeep Gill had told investigators that he miraculously escaped injury when a bullet fired from a passing car struck his body camera while he was standing near his patrol car.

A Santa Clara County Sheriff’s deputy was is in stable condition, after being shot by a suspect Sunday morning in a rural area outside Gilroy.

The college was on lockdown for more than two hours, after the security sent out alerts shortly after 11am that an armed intruder with a rifle was seen at the Saratoga campus.

In the wake of recent gun violence, Santa Clara County leaders voted Tuesday to improve the county's gun buyback and relinquishment program. The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is asking the sheriff's office to hold two regularly scheduled gun buybacks per year. County leaders said that previous gun buybacks have been successful, with several hundred weapons surrendered at each event.

San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Nancy Fineman on Wednesday afternoon rejected a motion from defense lawyers that the corruption trial of Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith should be dismissed because of Smith's resignation Monday.

The Office of Correction and Law Enforcement looked at the treatment of inmate Andrew Hogan in August 2018, who was paid a $10 million settlement for injuries he received in a county jail transport van.

Santa Clara County cold case detectives partnered with the DNA Doe Project, a nonprofit organization that helps identify unknown bodies, concluded that Patricia Skiple of Oregon was murdered by Keith Hunter Jesperson.

Attorney General Bonta announced he is opening a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s office.

Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith’s N621LS “Star1” helicopter's flight was conveniently in time for the 8:30pm sunset

A second inmate at the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas was also found unconscious in the jail bathroom, was revived and is hospitalized in stable condition. Neither man was identified by the Sheriff’s Office.

Additional brothels were found throughout Santa Clara County and search warrants were served in Milpitas, San Jose, and Palo Alto, police said.