Santa Clara County News

Poasi Toleseli, 20, East Palo Alto is suspected of a June 13, 2013 San Mateo and Santa Clara County burglary spree.

Four Sunnyvale Middle School girls capped an outstanding track and field season with a gold-medal performance at the Santa Clara County championships May 23 at Mt.

As the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors prepares to adopt a $4.6 billion capital and operating budget Friday for the upcoming fiscal year beginning July 1, it faces some hurdles.

Homicide detectives say they have solved a deadly January stabbing and are calling the victim an innocent man who had the bad luck of crossing the paths of four gang members looking to rob someone at random.

A 39-year-old San Jose IT consultant has been charged with a string of Silicon Valley office burglaries that netted computer components and customer profiles and caused the networks of several businesses to shut down.

A Santa Clara County jury found a Gilroy man guilty of second-degree murder this week, three years after he drunkenly plowed his speeding pickup into a disabled truck, killing a 4-year-old boy.

On June 15, officers responded to a call of a possible dead body near the railroad tracks in the 17000 block of Monterey Road.

Police on Saturday arrested three people, including a 17-year-old boy, suspected in the gang-motivated stabbing death of a 56-year-old man on the city's East Side.

Hunger isn't just a problem in the developing world. Even in the ostensibly well-to-do communities of Silicon Valley, one out of every three children rely on free or reduced-price meals provided to them by their local schools.

Larry Horton, Stanford University's longtime senior associate vice president and director of government and community relations, will step down at the end of this calendar year, he told the Weekly today.

The 2013 summer photo contest sponsored by Santa Clara County supervisor Mike Wasserman is on, with constituents invited to show why District 1 is the No.

Firefighters this morning extinguished a small blaze at a mobile home near the Santa Clara County fairgrounds, according to a fire captain.

There are many milestones in a child's life: potty training and the joy of "big kid pants" instead of diapers, walking , graduating from baby food and the high chair to the Real Dinner Table.

Santa Clara County in California is trying to make reading more interesting in a society where books just don't seem to cut it anymore.

The state political watchdog commission that regulates campaign finance and lobbying in California on Thursday will hold its monthly public meeting for the first time in Santa Clara County.

Three people were injured after a two-car collision shortly before 7 a.m. Monday, according to the California Highway Patrol.

When I read of the indictment last week of 48 Nuestra Familia members in a wave of robberies, murder and other crimes, what struck me immediately wasn't the details of their charges.

Police have arrested a 61-year-old man on suspicion of killing his live-in girlfriend and dumping her partially-clothed body near railroad tracks behind a mobile home park, the city's first homicide of the year.

Massive San Luis Reservoir will turn into a mud puddle this August on the San Joaquin Valley's west side — maybe a historic low.

The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all persons have the right to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."