Santa Clara County News

Kicking off what promises to be a cutthroat race, homicide prosecutor Jeff Rosen announced Wednesday he is running for Santa Clara County district attorney against his boss - and immediately faulted her for poor judgment and questionable ethics in recent episodes.

During questioning, the 14-year-old who told police she had been kidnapped from Gavilan College said she lied about her allegations, police said.

Santa Clara County has agreed to pay $800,000 to the father of Kristy Gough, the bicyclist killed in a traffic accident involving a sheriff's deputy.

Santa Clara County prosecutors are filing adult charges against three juveniles accused of attacking two Halloween trick or treaters.

Monumental plans to overhaul California's water system - decades in the dreaming and months in the works - finally emerged from an exhausted Legislature early Wednesday, defying regional squabbles to become the signature accomplishment in a year mostly lamented for budget cuts.

Photo: S.Smith Healthy vegetable garden filled with squash, peppers, herbs, nasturtiums, carrots, sweetpeas, and tomatoes Starting this month and January 2010, the master gardeners of Santa Clara County will again be offering their popular Sustainable Vegetable Garden classes in five locations.

The Peninsula Open Space Trust announced Monday that the Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department is the new owner of San Jose's 966-acre Rancho San Vicente.

Gilroy Dispatch A 14-year-old girl went missing from an advanced high school on Gavilan College's campus this morning, only to surface at noon when she called police to tell them she had been abducted.

A criminal investigation has begun into the actions of four San Jose police officers, two of whom were captured on a cell phone camera using a baton and a Taser stun gun last month on a 20-year-old Vietnamese exchange student at San Jose State University.

Palo Alto residents will vote Tuesday on whether to establish a business license tax to support basic city services.

CVS aims to add numerous drive-through pharmacies in Silicon Valley. This is a different model than the Longs Drugs chain, which CVS purchased last year for $2.7 billion.

Original allotment of 211,000 doses for Santa Clara County drops to 8,800; doses down in San Mateo County by 81,000 Santa Clara County officials announced Wednesday that fewer residents will be able to receive the H1N1 vaccine due to a lower distribution of doses than expected.

Nelson Wei would have turned 6 on Sunday. But instead of a birthday party to celebrate another year for their only child, Nelson's parents and friends held a ceremony to honor the young but tragically short life of a boy born to smile.

Santa Clara County officials announced Wednesday that fewer residents will be able to receive the H1N1 vaccine due to a lower distribution of doses than expected.

Firefighters say a blaze in the mountains northwest of Gilroy was contained Tuesday evening.

Santa Clara County supervisors are upset that as of late Wednesday, the county has not received even one dose of the H1N1 vaccine in the injectable form.

Firefighters expect to have a fire that broke out early Sunday morning in the hills northwest of Gilroy contained today.

Rents on apartments in Santa Clara County dove by 10 percent in Santa Clara County in the third quarter compared with a year earlier, a report said Wednesday.

Frank Deto poured 5-gallon jugs of water into a tin bucket inside his goat corral, a rare patch of fire-spared land on the Mount Madonna Road property he is the live-in caretaker for.

Monterey County Sheriff's investigators arrested a man in Salinas today who's suspected in North Carolina of serious sex crimes against a child.