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1 hr ago | Inside Bay Area

Trio suspected in South Bay and Peninsula burglary spree

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

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Related Topix: East Palo Alto, CA, San Mateo, CA, Menlo Park, CA

1 hr ago | San Jose Mercury News

Sunnyvale girls race to title

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.

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Related Topix: Sunnyvale, CA, Cupertino, CA

5 hrs ago | Santa Cruz Sentinel

Santa Clara County budget avoids layoffs, shortfall issues persist

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.

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Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance

7 hrs ago | The Campbell Reporter

San Jose: Four arrested in deadly January stabbing, deemed gang related

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.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, San Jose, CA

8 hrs ago | NBC Bay Area

San Jose IT Consultant Charged With Identity Theft

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.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law

11 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Gilroy man found guilty for killing 4-year-old in drunken driving collision

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.

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Related Topix: Gilroy, CA, Criminal Defense Law, Law

11 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Morgan Hill police solve city's first homicide of 2013

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

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Related Topix: Morgan Hill, CA

17 hrs ago | Santa Cruz Sentinel

San Jose police arrest 3 people suspected in gang-motivated homicide

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.

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23 hrs ago | Mountain View Voice

Full bellies all summer long

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.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., San Mateo County, CA, Kids, Family

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Palo Alto Weekly

Stanford's Larry Horton to retire

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.

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Related Topix: Stanford, CA, Stanford University, Inventions, Science / Technology

The Campbell Reporter

Wanted: Cool pix of hot days in county District 1

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.

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Related Topix: Los Gatos, CA, Monte Sereno, CA, Gilroy, CA, Morgan Hill, CA

Inside Bay Area

San Jose firefighters extinguish small blaze at mobile home near fairgrounds

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

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Related Topix: San Jose, CA, Fire

Daily Kos

All Things Bookstore: It's For The Kids

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.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Los Altos, CA, US News, Liberal Political News

PSFK

Book Vending Machine Tackles Childhood Literacy

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.

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Related Topix: Sunnyvale, CA

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Contra Costa Times

State political watchdog commission meeting slated for Thursday in San Jose

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.

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Related Topix: San Jose, CA, Salinas, CA

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Two car collision outside Watsonville sends to three to hospital

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

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Related Topix: Watsonville, CA

Inside Bay Area

Herhold: The return of the criminal nickname

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.

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Related Topix: Mafia

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Morgan Hill police arrest man suspected of killing girlfriend, dumping body

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.

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Related Topix: Morgan Hill, CA

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Merced Sun-Star

Water cutbacks, dry year may push San Luis Reservoir to lowest point

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

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Related Topix: August, CA, California, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Sacramento, CA

Examiner.com

California Assembly Judiciary Committee vote to curb elder abuse by conservators

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

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Related Topix: California, Stanislaus County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, Family, Elderly (Senior Citizen)