Santa Clara County News

A pipe bomb was discovered during a traffic stop on an off-ramp from southbound Interstate Highway 280 in unincorporated Santa Clara County Sunday morning, prompting the closure of the off-ramp for almost two hours, according to the California Highway Patrol.

San Jose police on Thursday arrested a 24-year-old suspect in the beating death of a man outside a pizzeria.

While prosecuting a case years ago, Joyce Allegro, now a Santa Clara County judge, withheld evidence that a drug lord had ordered Miguel Angel Bacigalupo to kill two brothers in 1983, according to the 39-page report released Tuesday.

The California Supreme Court Thursday denied a death penalty appeal in the case of Richard Wade Farley, the man convicted of the 1988 murders of seven employees of a Sunnyvale computer company.

A state Supreme Court investigation has found a prosecutor in Santa Clara county withheld evidence in a murder case tried in the 1980's. In the stinging 39-page report, Supreme Court investigator Richard Amason found then-county prosecutor Joyce Allegro appeared to have suppressed key evidence in a 1983 murder trial.

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.

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.

Morgan Hill The loss of an outbuilding that went up in flames over Morgan Hill capped off a busy weekend for emergency fire agencies.

Firefighters have rescued a repairman who was trapped in an air duct of a Santa Clara County building for about two hours today, San Jose fire Capt.

Derek was found dead at a home on Oxford Place at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday. He was at least the third young child to drown in the Bay Area this month.

Santa Clara Superior Court Judge David Cena Thursday afternoon sentenced a sheriff's deputy to four months under house arrest and 20 weeks of community service for hitting and killing two bicyclists with his patrol car after he fell asleep at the wheel while on duty in Cupertino last year.

Tim Johnston, 47, of Fremont, is suspected of luring a woman he found on Craigslist to a local hotel and robbing her by pretending to be an undercover police officer.

A traffic stop became a little bizarre Wednesday night when police found more than 100 marijuana plants and a dead man's body inside a van they pulled over.

Firefighters battled a grass fire that injured a firefighter Thursday afternoon and burned about 4 acres in San Jose near Coyote Creek before being contained, San Jose fire Capt.

The former Santa Clara County sheriff's deputy who killed two bicyclists after falling asleep behind the wheel of his patrol car will be sentenced today.

Palo Alto police on Wednesday tracked down a computer stolen from a Walter Hays Elementary School classroom earlier this month and arrested a young East Palo Alto man on suspicion of possessing stolen property.

Days after approving one of its worst budgets in years, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has selected a new county executive to preside over those deep funding cuts - while also preparing for a new round as soon as August.

Santa Clara County's poet laureate Nils Peterson may not have written a word of it, but he was proud to announce that the county's official poem has finally been completed.

A motorcyclist was killed Tuesday evening in a collision with a hit-and-run driver west of Gilroy in unincorporated Santa Clara County, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Edwin Portillo-Garcia, a 19-year-old San jsoe resident and suspected member of the Vagos Motorcycle Club, is charged with gang raping a woman.