San Jose News

All northbound lanes of U.S. Highway 101 in San Jose have reopened after a car fire was cleared from the roadway, but a separate incident was still blocking several southbound lanes just before 2 p.m., according to the California Highway Patrol.

A man was killed in San Jose Thursday morning after he drove his black pickup truck in front of a Caltrain train, a fire department spokesman said.

TODAY AT 3PM: "The View from the Bay" Police investigating suspicious death of Alviso woman Tuesday, December 29, 2009 1 of 7: 20-year-old Norma Leticia Martinez was found unconscious, lying in the middle of the 1300 block of Michigan Avenue in Alviso on Monday, December 28, 2009.

Although the term "wiki" undoubtedly brings to mind a certain online encyclopedia, generally it has come to mean a Web site that is created or updated through the collaborative efforts of individuals.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office is seeking the public's assistance in gathering more information about a man arrested in early October for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in San Jose.

Police are naming a person of interest in the death of a 20-year-old woman found lying in the middle of a San Jose street on Monday morning.

Shortly after arriving in San Jose from Germany to take over the then-struggling Tech Museum of Innovation, Peter Friess decided the city-subsidized showpiece needed to hire somebody to spruce up its image.

A new fire station near Lincoln Glen Park took a step forward as the San Jose City Council hired BFGC Architecture to begin drafting designs.

The Silicon Valley is noted for being just a couple hours outside of Los Angeles.

Dec. 27--After its first foray left a tunneling machine stuck in muck and the city mired in lawsuits, it'll be a while before San Jose takes another shot at putting a sewer line under the Guadalupe River.

A 35-year-old pedestrian was killed after she was struck by a car on Blossom Hill Road in San Jose on Sunday evening, San Jose police reported.

For decades, Alum Rock Hardware could help with fixing clogged sinks, torn screens, broken windows and botched wiring.

In July 2007, San Jose police officer John Marfia knocked Camille Monet Fisher to the floor of a downtown parking garage, smashing her face into the asphalt.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission announced this week it would contribute $4.3 million toward a project to ease congestion on U.S. Highway 101 in east San Jose.

Firefighters responded to a two alarm blaze in South San Jose early Christmas morning.

A Christmas morning fire destroyed a townhouse in San Jose and caused at least a half-million dollars in damage, a fire captain said.

Lawyers for the family of the 15-year-old Santa Teresa High School student filed a lawsuit Thursday against his classmates Jae Williams, 15, and Randy Thompson, 16, as well as their parents.

Petty theft with priors Kenneth Wickholm, 56, of San Jose, 4:40 p.m. Tuesday, at Home Depot, 8850 San Ysidro Ave.

With 16 grandchildren, Mona Payne loves to make a big deal out of every season. An outdoor Christmas tableau, a mock graveyard for Halloween - she even marks summer with a dining-room display of sand and sea shells.

San Jose police today identified the man killed early Saturday near a downtown parking garage as Daniel Booker, 27, of San Jose.