Santa Clara County News

A one-day prostitution sting nicknamed "Operation B-Sting" resulted in 32 arrests on Wednesday, the San Jose Police Department reported today.

What does "quality of life" mean to you, Campbell? Is it the services you have available? Maybe the open space that your children spend time in? What about jobs, housing and childcare? Santa Clara County's General Plan Health Element Project, the 2012 Community Assessment Project and San Jose State University are offering Milpitas residents, as ... (more)

Officer Lee Tassio, who has been with the San Jose Police Department for nine years, used a "reasonable level of self-defense" when he shot and killed Valente Galindo, 47, Santa Clara County prosecutors said.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office on Thursday said the fatal shooting of a 47-year-old San Jose man inside his bedroom last year by San Jose police was justified.

Police are having difficulty identifying a body discovered in a trash can left on Dublin Canyon Road last Thursday morning, a Pleasanton police lieutenant said.

Campbell has started to take on the hues of summer. The neon shades of green that signaled spring have given way to deeper tints.

A DUI arrests over the Memorial Day holiday weekend were down in several Bay Area counties compared to the same three-day weekend last year, authorities said today.

Prosecutors are set to return to court Thursday to try to convict a Morgan Hill man for the murder of Sierra LaMar, even though they lack a major piece of evidence - the body of the 15-year-old South Bay girl.

A former Milpitas resident was arrested Wednesday for being in possession of, and manufacturing, child pornography.

The condemned killer of two brothers in a San Jose jewelry store nearly three decades ago appears to have a strong chance of a reprieve from the California Supreme Court.

A missing man whose disappearance prompted a lengthy search of aA San Jose park on Tuesday has been found dead, police said.

Gay-rights activists Wednesday called on San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed to publicly support same-sex marriage with a resolution by several City Council members forcing him to confront a divisive social issue he has sought to avoid.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office has charged a 23-year-old Pittsburg man with murder following a fatal drunk-driving accident in San Jose about two weeks ago.

Five quakes averaging a 1.5 on the Richter scale smattered through Santa Clara County last week.

But instead of getting a divorce, like Santa Clara County Superior Judge James Kleinberg has suggested, Hewlett-Packard Co.

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Nearly two years after Trace Elementary School went up in flames, a San Jose judge on Tuesday sentenced a teen who torched it to eight years in prison for arson while his alleged accomplice remains under evaluation as doctors decide whether he is competent to stand trial.

The number of DUI arrests over the Memorial Day weekend is down considerably from last year, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department.

Seven days remain until the June 5 Santa Clara County Presidential Primary Election and for those who want to cast their vote from home, they must request a mail-in ballot by 5 p.m. Tuesday.

One week after I nearly stepped on a six-foot-long rattler in Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve , Santa Clara County has issued a warning and a tip-sheet for dealing with our mouse-eating friends.