Santa Clara County News

The lone woman in a crowded field for a Santa Clara County Superior Court judgeship jumped to a strong lead in early balloting Tuesday night, while an incumbent appeared to be on his way to keeping his job on ...

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The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office announced Friday that a local man convicted of molesting a 7-year-old girl earlier this year has been sentenced to 45 years to life in prison.

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Bleeding from a self-inflicted stab wound, the 29-year-old woman was stopped at a red light on Capitol Expressway during a busy Monday morning commute, according to police.

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San Jose police Thursday identified a second suspect in the city's 14th homicide of 2008, a May shooting on Almaden Avenue at Union Street which left 26-year-old Lorenzo Torres dead and another man injured.

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Eduardo L. Ortiz, 19, of Morgan Hill, who is a suspect in the May 12 stabbing of a 16-year-old male at the Village Avante Apartments basketball courts.

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A Purple Heart medal posthumously awarded to an Ohio man killed during World War II is at the center of a joint investigation by Palo Alto and Menlo Park police, as well as the Santa Clara County Sheriff's ...

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In a small but symbolic step toward combating obesity, supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to require chain restaurants in unincorporated Santa Clara County to include calorie counts on their menus.

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In the hard-fought primary for the 22nd Assembly District, where the two front-runners were a young moderate and a longtime member of the state's Democratic firmament, early results showed a race too close to ...

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Carlos Sousa Jr. was killed by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo on Dec. 25, 2007.

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A judge rather than a jury will determine Palo Alto homicide suspect James Dalton's mental competency.

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