Santa Clara County News Archives

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.

High winds and dry weather drove a fire toward homes in the Santa Cruz mountains Sunday, forcing about 85 people to evacuate and sending scores of firefighters and other resources to the area.

A A A' A cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university student with batons and a Taser gun has prompted a criminal investigation into the officers' conduct, a San Jose police spokesman said.

Employees at the Santa Clara County Coroner's Office wheel off a body so badly decomposed that police could not determine its sex about 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

The Santa Clara County medical examiner's office has identified a Fremont woman killed Thursday night when two cars involved in a drag race lost control and crashed into her vehicle.

A man serving time for taking part in the killing of a witness to a $3 million computer chip robbery in1981 is a step closer to getting out of prison.

Bulos "Paul" Zumot was arraigned Friday in Santa Clara County Superior Court on charges of killing his girlfriend Jennifer Schipsi last week and setting fire to the bedroom of their Palo Alto home with her body inside.

A 24-year-old Antioch man was killed early this morning when he lost control of his car and crashed into a light pole in North San Jose.

A young Fremont woman who suddenly found herself in the middle of a street race died Thursday night after one of the speeding cars hit her Volkswagen and caused it to hit the center divider.

Some technicians at seven Santa Clara County smog check shops are facing jail time after being convicted of illegally certifying vehicles that did not meet clean air standards.

Four school buses leaving Casa de Fruta on Saturday were struck by "small projectiles" in what authorities are calling an isolated attack, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A store clerk and her husband are facing charges over the alleged embezzlement of $1.3 million from a San Jose hardware store.

A smog check sting shuts down a number of Santa Clara County auto shops. It's a crackdown happening statewide, and in the Bay Area, investigators say Santa Clara County has been a hot spot for cheating on smog tests.

The last time she talked to her daughter, Jennifer Schipsi was at the Apple Store buying a birthday present for her boyfriend, Bulos "Paul" Zumot, her mother said Tuesday.

HOLLISTER Four school buses leaving Casa de Fruta on Saturday were struck by "small projectiles" in what authorities are calling an isolated attack, according to a press release from the California Highway Patrol.

Starting Jan. 1, South County residents will have a new garbage hauler for the first time in more than 50 years.

A former Gavilan College student writes a part number on furrows at Coastal Tractor in Gilroy in 2007.

The discovery of a pornographic magazine in a child's room led to finding dozens of such magazines at firehouses in San Jose, Calif., fire officials said.

A grand jury says two San Jose police officers who shot a mentally ill man wielding a knife should not face criminal charges.

The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 2.2 struck early this morning in Santa Clara County.

Two San Jose police officers who shot to death a knife-wielding, mentally ill man in his family's backyard will not face criminal charges.

In an effort to stem the quickening pace of the swine flu outbreak, Stanford and Lucile Packard Children's hospitals on Monday will begin banning children from visiting their sick loved ones until the pandemic subsides - possibly as late as spring.

The largest drinking water provider in Santa Clara County will be required to adopt nearly a dozen reforms, from more open records to limits on revolving-door hiring, under a new state law.

Julie LaBlanc was shocked when she found a hard-core pornographic magazine under her 9-year-old son's pillow.

Five suspects in last year's high-profile murder of two Mountain View siblings pleaded not guilty Thursday in Santa Clara County Superior Court.

Family members of twin California girls who drowned in the backyard pool say the toddlers managed to gain access by unlocking a gate.Two-year-olds Annalise and Aspen Niva-Wiggle were found in the water Sunday afternoon.

The two children were siblings and both under the age of three, but Santa Clara County sheriff's investigators declined to provide additional details about them.

San Jose Unified School District plans to offer free swine flu shots to all of its 32,000 students this fall, making the district the only one in Santa Clara County so far to undertake such an ambitious program.

Santa Clara County has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a high-tech entrepreneur who claimed that prosecutors here had her house in Colorado searched as part of a "campaign of intimidation and harassment'' surrounding her efforts to free her nephew from prison.

A Santa Clara teenager whose brother was arrested last month for allegedly planning to blow up a Dallas skyscraper has pleaded guilty to possession of methamphatemine and been sentenced to 90 days in jail.

Edward Slate, a teacher at Wilcox High School in Santa Clara, who was arrested last month and charged with having sex with a student, walks out of Superior Court in Sunnyvale with his lawyer, Steven Clark, after his plea hearing was continued on Oct.

SAN JOSE, Calif. a " Santa Clara County's effort to charge high fees for digital mapping data has ended with a $500,000 payout to cover the legal bills of a First Amendment watchdog group.The San Rafael-based First Amendment Coalition sued the county in 2006 over fees the group said could total $250,000.The maps, known as GIS Basemaps, show all ...

Santa Clara County will pay $1.2 million to the mother of a bicyclist who was killed when a sheriff's deputy fell asleep behind the wheel of his patrol car and slammed into a group of cyclists.

A San Jose dentist accused of fondling a 14-year-old girl's breasts during a dental examination in his office will stand trial next month, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.

Two years before the fatal accident that prompted Toyota to warn 3.8 million American car owners to take out floor mats, Troy Johnson died in a crash also suspected of being caused by a floor mat jamming an accelerator.

After working their unsolved homicide case for more than five years, Santa Clara County sheriff's detectives today released a sketch of a possible suspect, someone they believe walked into the Rainbow Smoke Shop and shot to death a well-liked employee.

Four days after receiving a nine-month jail sentence for touching the breasts of six women patients, a San Jose dentist was arraigned Monday on a grand jury indictment of a more serious charge of lewd and lascivious acts on a 14-year-old girl.

This is a view of Alameda Creek that contains a middle rubber "pillow" dam, seen here on Monday, Sept.

After Guadalupe Gomez's 2007 Toyota Camry careened out of control, mysteriously accelerating to more than 100 mph on a San Jose highway, no one quite believed his story that the engine simply surged on its own when it smashed into a Honda Accord, killing its driver in a burst of flames.

A family in Campbell awoke this morning to find a fire burning in their garage and, after attempts to put it out with a garden hose, called 911.

Cupertino could collaborate with Los Altos and Santa Clara to build a fenced dog park in Stevens Creek County Park.

A man will spend at least a month in jail and face stiff probation conditions for keying a car owned by a millionaire in Palo Alto, Calif., a judge says.

All visitors are being shooed away from Elmwood jail after swine flu concerns prompted Santa Clara County corrections officials to close visiting hours indefinitely.

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The Rose Garden Park is very scenic as seen through this covered walkway towards the fountain on Monday, Sept.