Fremont News

The sun broke through an early-morning haze Saturday, just in time for Fremont's annual Fourth of July parade.

J.H. 'Jim' McGrady of Fremont celebrated is 91st birthday June 28. In May 1936, Jim lied to his commanding officer of Company B, 148th Infantry, 37th Division and said he was 18 years old, when, in fact, he was 17 years old.

Fremont police have recovered a vehicle taken during an East Palo Alto carjacking last month and have a suspect in custody, East Palo Alto police said Thursday.

Saturday's Fourth of July parade in Fremont's Warm Springs district will have everything people have come to expect: marching bands, giant balloons and plenty of floats and flags.

The new Warren Avenue/Interstate 880 interchange opened Tuesday, marking the end of one phase of transit improvements in South Fremont and the beginning of another, transit planners said.

After two failed attempts to convince a jury that convicted child killer Donald Schmidt, formerly of Fremont, should not be released from the state juvenile justice system, the Santa Cruz County District Attorney's Office has tentatively agreed to let Schmidt, the oldest state ward, be paroled next year.

More than 350 marijuana plants were removed from a Grimmer neighborhood home last weekend after fire officials learned of the plants while investigating a fire at the residence, police said.

General Motors is washing its hands of the joint venture it operates with Toyota in California--the NUMMI plant in Fremont, Calif., where the companies teamed to build the Pontiac Vibe, and where Toyota builds the Tacoma pickup and Corolla sedan.

The Warren Avenue overpass over Interstate 880 will open Tuesday in Fremont, while another will close.

Pirates, zombies, and a giant lizard were among the sights around the California School for the Deaf this weekend for the 25th annual Relay for Life.

Fremont Police Department patrol officers visited 48 youngsters ages 3 to 5 years old at Glankler Elementary School for a book read-along June 4. Fremont Unified School District's Preschool Programs partnered with the Hoopoe Books Share Literacy Program for the event.

A Fremont man has been arrested for allegedly posing as an undercover police officer and robbing a masseuse he found on Craigslist.

Timothy Johnston, 47, was arrested after police followed an investigation and found his vehicle parked outside a home in Fremont.

And detectives in Milpitas suspect Johnston may have played an even darker game of cop and robber: luring another masseuse he found on the widely used online advertisement service and then robbing and sexually assaulting her.

Local veterans will soon have access to medical and mental health services at a new Fremont clinic slated to open in January.

The early days of film weren't for gentlemen. Several leading studios banded together in 1908 to control the industry, and they weren't above bashing the cameras of their upstart competitors.

The guest of honor walked into a house full of strangers, searching for a familiar face.

The sprawling NUMMI plant is poised to navigate toward a brighter future if Toyota and General Motors select the Fremont automobile factory to manufacture the hot-selling Prius hybrid vehicle.

Weeks of bitter workplace politics boiled over into a confrontation between two employees at a Palo Alto Chinese restaurant that culminated in one stabbing the other with a meat cleaver, according to police reports.

There apparently is a lot to complain about in Fremont. City workers are arrogant, the mayor is out of touch, authorities do nothing to stop unlicensed strawberry vendors who might double as prowlers, and the schools "look like garbage dumps." Those were just some of the frustrations Fremont residents unloaded on Councilmember Anu Natarajan on ...