San Jose News

The state Attorney General has charged a Santa Clara County District Attorney investigator with felony drunken driving.

A two-alarm vegetation fire that burned near a golf course in San Jose Saturday took firefighters more than an hour to bring under control, according to the fire department.

A San Jose high school student suffered non-life threatening injuries in a stabbing at school Wednesday, according to the Police Department.

The hillside is burnt where a helicopter crashed on Sheridan Road near Fremont, Calif., on Friday, July 4, 2008.

Willow Glen High School went on alert Wednesday after a student was stabbed off campus in a minor fight.

Roxane Marwan Tabbara, 22, of San Jose was killed Monday in a car accident on highway 17 outside of Los Gatos.

Beginning this weekend, San Jose will be closing the doors to several of its branch libraries on Sundays in an effort to save the city an estimated $350,000. Five branch libraries will be closed as the city ...

Acting on anonymous tips generated by media coverage, police on Wednesday arrested two San Jose men and booked them on suspicion that they are the brawny, big-bellied men behind a high-profile and unusual ...

Police responding to calls of shots fired Tuesday morning found a woman murdered in the parking lot behind an office complex near the Westgate Mall.

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 ...

San Jose police released pictures today of two young women captured on Jack in the Box video surveillance cameras just before they allegedly entered through the take-out window and made off with an undisclosed ...

Two separate gang-related shootings overnight in San Jose left a pair hospitalized, San Jose police officer Enrique Garcia said this morning.

California is in the midst of an epic drought and on Wednesday the mayors of the Bay Area's two largest cities kicked off a campaign that urges residents to cut their water usage.

The bulk of the equipment stolen from two San Jose electronics stores Wednesday were Bluetooth products, according to police.

San Jose Mercury News photo by Judith Calson. Jason Cai at a court hearing on May 19, 2004, which preceeded the expected beginning of his murder trial.

All too often, there is a deadly intimacy between drivers and bicyclists on crowded urban roadways.

San Jose police say a woman was fatally shot today at 9:53 a.m. in the 1800 block of Duvall Drive.

A man who nearly three years earlier was dragged from under a home in Morgan Hill was convicted of second degree murder last week for the stabbing death of an 18-year-old high school senior in 2003.

Firefighters this morning controlled a two-alarm fire that burned a single-story house in San Jose, fire Capt.

A "Stop the Violence Peace March" will be held Sunday in San Jose in memory of Vahid Hosseini, a grocer who was shot and killed on May 23 as he was making a bank deposit south of downtown.