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Officials have ruled that the fugitive airman who died during a shootout with Santa Clara police had committed suicide.

VTA is changing some routes as part of its annual transit service plan, which is updated each year in response to changes in demand and ridership levels.

A young woman and teenage girl who are suspected of stealing wallets and car keys from two South Bay fitness center locker rooms and taking off in stolen vehicles were arrested last week by Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputies.

According to a release on the City of Alameda's website, local mayors voted unanimously at the June 10th Alameda County Mayors' Conference to oppose Sacramento's plans to borrow municipal tax dollars from cities across the state.

The man and woman who were found shot to death Monday afternoon inside an upscale San Jose townhouse near Oak Hill Cemetery may have died before police got a chance to secure the scene, a police spokesman said.

A two-alarm fire early today did a half-million dollars of damage to an Almaden Valley home and sent a firefighter to the hospital for a minor injury.

An hours-long standoff between a shooting suspect and police concluded Monday afternoon when officers made entry to the San Jose home and found the suspect and a woman dead of gunshot wounds, police Officer Jermaine Thomas said.

Police arrested two men in South San Francisco roughly an hour after they allegedly robbed a bank on Alum Rock Avenue, a San Jose police spokesman said Tuesday.

San Jose Police released a photo of suspected gunman Jian Ming Liang, who was one of two people fatally shot on Monday, July 6, 2009 at a San Jose townhouse.

Firefighters needed less than an hour to control a two-alarm blaze this morning at a home in South San Jose.

The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that two people are dead following a standoff in San Jose that lasted more than six hours.

SAN JOSE a ' Police spokesperson Jermaine Thomas says officers remain in a standoff with an armed man who shot two people and is still holding one victim hostage.

San Jose police are investigating the stabbing of a 52-year-old man who was found dead along the Guadalupe River near the Julian Street overcrossing on Saturday.

You could call them the killjoy crew. Firefighters spent the better part of the Fourth of July on the prowl for things that go ka-boom and light up the sky - the sidewalk and backyard pyrotechnics.

A person was stuck and killed Sunday morning by an Amtrak train in Oakland, the third train-related fatality in the East Bay since Friday, a company spokesman said.

One firefighter was injured battling an early morning house fire in San Jose. The two-alarm blaze was first reported around 4:15 a.m. at the home on the 6400 block of Cranbrook Court.

When Virgil Acacio drove his new Mercedes through the grand entrance towers of The Ranch On Silver Creek in early 2006, this real estate broker who had just quintupled his income felt like he was passing through his personal Arc de Triomphe.

When he was 10, Hank Nijmeh moved with his family to San Jose when the Beatles were still together and much of the Santa Clara Valley was carpeted with mustard fields.

Firefighters Friday morning remained at the scene of a fire that broke out in a San Jose strip mall, a dispatcher said.

Family members of a 63-year-old Campbell man with dementia who has been missing since Tuesday are continuing to travel around the South Bay posting flyers and talking to people to see if anyone has seen him.