Santa Clara County News

Santa Clara County prosecutors announced Monday that a man convicted of burglarizing the homes of more than two dozen elderly San Jose residents while posing as a water company employee has been sentenced to 10 ...

Santa Clara County firefighters remained for several hours on the scene of a two-alarm fire that burned a Cupertino strip mall Monday night, a fire dispatcher said.

A San Jose police officer allegedly coached the responses of a former cop involved in a traffic accident and tried to prevent her from being taken to the hospital, according to paramedics interviewed by ...

Even after 42 years in education, Steve Stavis still thinks the most exciting day of the year is the first day of school - well, that and graduation day.

The state attorney general has charged a former San Jose police officer with felony drunken driving more than three months after police failed to test her for intoxication after a car accident.

ALUM ROCK The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 2.8 struck at 6:08 p.m. Friday near the Alum Rock area of Santa Clara County.

The mother of Jason Cai said her son had no reason to kill San Jose attorney Xia Zhao and never talked about her.

A Santa Clara County judge Wednesday rejected a defense attorney's argument that police did not have grounds to arrest a Palo Alto sexual assault suspect.

A civil grand jury report released Thursday claims that inadequate elections facilities in San Francisco, as well as uncertainty about the city's new elections machines state certification, may compromise the ...

More than three months after San Jose police failed to test a former cop for intoxication or cite her after a serious multi-car accident, the state Attorney General has charged Sandra Woodall with felony ...

One person was killed and four others injured in a multi-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon in unincorporated Santa Clara County near Stanford , according to the California Highway Patrol .

Police in Santa Clara County announced today that three sobriety checkpoints will be in operation this weekend as well as increased patrols looking for drunken drivers as part of the region's "Avoid the 13" ...

At least 21 people reported being stricken with a diarrheal illness after visiting the Crowne Plaza-Cabana hotel in Palo Alto late last month, according to public health officials.

Santa Clara County prosecutors announced today that a former employee of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health has been charged with embezzling more than $350,000 from the nonprofit organization.

Romerito Urbano Lalucis, the Daly City man who allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend to death in a jealous rage Wednesday, was convicted of domestic battery last year after telling authorities he ...

A Santa Clara County Jail inmate scheduled for release next week has been found dead in his cell, according to the Santa Clara County Department of Correction .

Minutes before Teresa Sanchez and her brother Omar Aquino were shot to death in their Mountain View home Saturday morning, police believe Sanchez may have called 911 to report a break-in. At 3:54 a.m., a ...

No one ever said Joe Simitian gives up easily. When he proposed seven years ago that California become the first state in the nation with a hands-free cell phone law, the measure had little support and no hope ...

When Ed Kanner decided to build a new home in the foothills just south of downtown Los Gatos, he chose an unusual roof.

A long-shot bid by a San Luis Obispo County write-in candidate to challenge state Sen.