Santa Clara County News

A man who is wanted by police for burglary escaped a manhunt in Palo Alto on Friday afternoon, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.

Santa Clara County and Morgan Hill officials this week announced they have settled a lawsuit over the transfer of some Morgan Hill redevelopment agency assets to the city's economic development corporation in March 2011.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office will not be filing charges against a woman who was accused of placing rubbing alcohol in two bottles of orange juice at a Starbucks in San Jose last month, a prosecutor said Friday.

Tens of thousands of homeowners will see their property taxes go up significantly this year as rising home values restore some or all of their homes' lost equity, Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone said Monday.

With more electric cars driving on Bay Area roads and less charging stations than needed, Santa Clara county supervisors are looking to change local building codes as a solution.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is investigating a bank robbery that occurred Wednesday afternoon at a US Bank in Cupertino.

The candidates in the June 4th special election to replace disgraced Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Junior have released their campaign fundraising reports.

Cupertino city staff is presenting a balanced budget to the community and its five-member council of $86,150,772 for the 2013-14 fiscal year.

If Mountain View had a resident ribs master, it would be Harold Willis. And you won't find him -- or his ribs -- in a local restaurant, but in the parking lot of Lozano's Car Wash on El Camino Real.

A canvas-covered cart, loaded with bright yellow buckets filled with breakfast goodies, is rolled out to the playground during morning recess at four of the district's elementary schools, said Robin Gallagher, director of child nutrition.

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California's new health insurance marketplace has selected 13 plans that will offer coverage in 2014 to as many as 5.3 million consumers.

A San Jose teacher has been arrested for illegal sexual acts with a minor, the San Jose Police Department reports.

Santa Clara County, Calif., agreed to settle for $15 million a suit stemming from a car crash triggered by a police officer eating a hamburger while driving.

New leader for Nevada County Tea Party Michael Walker, a private investigator, is the new leader of the Nevada County's Tea Party Patriots.

Terrell Jamar Rhodes, a 20-year-old San Francisco resident, was arrested in connection to a residential burglary in northeast Milpitas Monday afternoon, Milpitas Police Department reported.

A suspicious man fled early Wednesday morning after he was spotted in a field near a PG&E transmission substation that was damaged by gunfire in a vandalism case last month , a Santa Clara County sheriff's spokesman said.

Santa Clara County prosecutor Chuck Gillingham is among those who said the newspaper is promoting the sexual exploitation of young boys and girls and the proliferation of prostitution in its classified ad section.

An 81-year-old man who was killed while walking in a crosswalk in East San Jose on Monday night has been identified by the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office as David Stearns, of San Jose.

Jay Thorwaldson's Blog , posted by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus, 1 hour ago Jay Thorwaldson is a member of Palo Alto Online In about eight years, the Palo Alto Adult School will be observing its 100th anniversary -- a century of promoting the notion that learning can be for a lifetime.