Santa Clara News

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.

Bibliotheca Inc. announced that the Santa Clara County Library is purchasing a range of the company's BiblioChip RFID technology-based solutions, including Bibliotheca's Orion self-check stations for library patrons, Biblio StaffStations for easy replacement of barcodes with RFID tags and new enhanced BiblioGate VI 3D security gates at each of the ...

A Santa Clara County prosecutor who is now a judge may have wrongly sent a convict to death row more than 20 years ago, according to a review by the state Supreme Court.

SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Santa Clara County will pay $2.3 million to the parents of one of two bicyclists killed when a sheriff's deputy drove his patrol car into a group of cyclists.

Santa Clara police say they've nabbed the city's most prolific tagger in recent memory - a 21-year-old unemployed man who allegedly spray painted his moniker 100 times on baseball dugouts, sound walls, elementary schools, parked vans and apartment complexes.

San Jose fire crews rescused an injured worker trapped in the ventilation system at a County of Santa Clara building on North First Street.

Debate simmers over plan to increase retail, hotel space in North San Jose Jun. 28--When city officials in 2005 unveiled sweeping plans to remake North San Jose into a "second downtown," they envisioned thousands of homes and millions of square feet of high-rise, high-tech offices.

The County of Santa Clara Board of Supervisors named Dr. Jeffrey V. Smith as county executive.

A former Santa Clara County sheriff's deputy tearfully apologized Thursday at his sentencing for killing two bicyclists after falling asleep behind the wheel of his patrol car in Cupertino 16 months ago.

Jun 25, 2009 11:53 am US/Pacific SANTA CLARA A recent spike in gang violence prompted law enforcement agencies in Santa Clara County to conduct a parolee compliance sweep that resulted in several arrests on Tuesday, according to the sheriff's office.

The deal is significant for Intel because it will help the world's biggest maker of PC microprocessors penetrate the smart phone market, an area Intel sees as crucial for growth.

The County of Santa Clara will hold a community meeting Tuesday evening to discuss development of its habitat plan, which addresses ecological diversity and endangered species in 520,000 acres of the county.

SiliconBlue Technologies Corp. , has announced the availability of a version of its iCE65 family of FPGAs that the company claims is 65 percent faster than the original family.

Parts of Santa Clara and Sunnyvale will undergo ground fogging for mosquitoes on Wednesday, after the Santa Clara County Vector Control District confirmed that adult insects from the 94089 Zip code have tested positive for West Nile virus.

Dear Abby: Please tell "Privacy Please in Santa Clara, Calif." that she does not have to pump her breast milk in the bathroom! Depending on the laws in her state, she may be entitled to request that her employer create a dedicated pumping location for new moms.

The "nerd birds" soon will fly no more. That's the name given to the flights of mostly electrical engineers, computer programmers and other tech-savvy passengers that American Airlines has been shuttling daily between San Jose and Austin since 1992.

Members of the Santa Clara City Council are expected to vote Tuesday evening on whether to approve a proposal to build up to 806 residential units on the former Kaiser Permanente medical center site.

When Mountain View High School teachers set out to rapidly improve learning among the lowest-performing students, they did what would seem obvious in their profession: They studied the best teachers and the best practices.

Video footage of MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP 's June 11, 2009 performance at the Avalon club in Santa Clara, California can be viewed below .

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help with a child pornography investigation involving a man who used to work at local schools.