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Two drivers were charged today following a street race last month that killed an innocent woman - a former San Jose high school cheerleader - and injured her friend as they were on their way back from a shopping trip for milk.

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Responding to growing concerns about the use of force by San Jose police, a City Council committee Thursday turned to officials outside the department to examine the issue.

The bottom shelf of the frozen waffle section is empty on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.

Netbooks in the enterprise are coming, some observers believe. And whether it takes a year or five for netbooks to catch on in Corporate America, it behooves IT managers to get ready sooner rather than having to clean up a mess later on.

A newly enhanced video of the arrest of a San Jose State University student further deepens the questions about why police repeatedly struck him with batons and shocked him with a Taser gun, as the student never speaks defiantly to the officers.

The frozen waffle is officially an endangered species. Kellogg says there will be a nationwide shortage of its Eggo frozen waffles until next summer because of hiccups in production at two of its four plants.

San Jose police have released a photograph of a 20-year-old man wanted in connection with the shooting death that occurred in May on the city's East Side.

A 38-year-old San Jose resident accused of raping a woman in her Mountain View home in 2007 has pleaded no contest and was sentenced last week to 25 years to life in prison, Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Amy Cornell said.

The new artist's rendering depicting what an expansion and renovation of the 20-year-old McEnery Convention Center might look like if plans go forward.

Editor's Note: Due to a production error, the full version of this story did not run in some Wednesday editions of the Mercury News.

San Jose Police have arrested two teenagers in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old San Jose boy outside his home.

San Jose Unified School District's chief nurse, Melinda Landau, talks with Adreanna Correia, 18, who came to pick up forms during presentation with Physicians from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and San Jose Unified nurses at H1N1 Information Parent Night at San Jose High Academy in San Jose, California on Thursday, November 12, 2009.

On Friday, November 13, 2009 shortly after 11:00 pm, units of the San Jose Fire Department responded to reports of fire in a two-story, multi-unit residential occupancy at 5506 Makati Circle on the city's south side.

This has been the year of the bicyclist in the South Bay, and it's going to get even better.

San Jose firefighters battle a three-alarm fire at a condominium complex just after 11:00 pm on Nov.

Hoping to avert what they believe will cause undue hardship for many, hundreds of San Jose residents packed City Hall's council chamber Tuesday night, pleading with officials not to permit the city's cash-strapped redevelopment agency to raid affordable housing funds.

San Jose police this afternoon released recordings and transcripts of 911 and police dispatch tapes in the shooting death of a mentally ill man who had attacked his brother with a knife.

Parents feel outraged and afraid about a vicious attack on two children. Parents gathered at a community meeting to talk about a Halloween night assault on two innocent trick-or-treaters. Hundreds of people packed the cafeteria at Lee Mathson Middle School on Tuesday evening.

The largest provider of shelter, food and supportive services in Silicon Valley announced Wednesday that it is kicking off its drive for donations and volunteers for the holiday season.