Prosecutors said Ray Fitzgerald Montgomery, 59, violently assaulted and strangled a 42-year-old woman in 2024 in his home.

Santa Clara County is going after Menlo Park-based Meta Platforms Inc., accusing the social media giant of facilitating 15 billion scam ads daily on Facebook and Instagram, accounting for $7 billion in revenues per year.

The cousin of 43-year-old Torres, identified only as John Doe, said he was far from the only victim of the former City Council member's abuse. Shocking revelations at Friday's sentencing divided the family and resulted in a maximum 18-year sentence.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office obtained the settlement in Superior Court in a consumer protection lawsuit filed against the meal delivery company for misleading consumers, making it difficult to cancel subscriptions.

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.

The VTA posted a notice this morning that VTA bus service was "fully restored" today, and light rail trains could start as early as Monday.

That means the strike that has suspended bus and light train rides for 100,000 commuters since March 10 will continue.

The Valley Transportation Authority is hopeful its offer of more pay and improved benefits will end the regional transit strike.

The court decision Monday wasn’t the only rejection that hit the transit agency. Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a request from the VTA to intervene in the labor dispute and asked the two sides to resume negotiations on a three-year contract.

The former tutor, Mark Hodes, was arrested in 2020 on multiple counts of sexual molestation and is awaiting trial in Santa Clara County.

In a lawsuit: Yeager agreed to give wife Yingying Yu a house in Washington state.

Anthony Becker was found guilty of leaking a 2022 civil grand jury report to a reporter, and then lying about it under oath.

The split vote Wednesday evening came hours after a Superior Court judge turned down a request from Dewan’s lawyers for an order blocking a board vote.

The San Jose police union accused City Manager Jennifer Maguire of attempting to divert police resources from the investigation of Omar Torres to instead go after media for leaking an affidavit that was on file with the court.

Dennis Fountaine, convicted in May defrauding four victims of over $350,000 never showed up for his Aug. 5 sentencing in Santa Clara County Superior Court.

Former Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Capt. James Jensen was convicted of felony bribery and conspiracy charges, and the same jury acquitted co-defendant Harpaul Nahal, a Santa Clara attorney, of both charges.