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When Virgil Acacio drove his new Mercedes through the grand entrance towers of The Ranch On Silver Creek in early 2006, this real estate broker who had just quintupled his income felt like he was passing through his personal Arc de Triomphe.

When he was 10, Hank Nijmeh moved with his family to San Jose when the Beatles were still together and much of the Santa Clara Valley was carpeted with mustard fields.

Firefighters Friday morning remained at the scene of a fire that broke out in a San Jose strip mall, a dispatcher said.

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.

We at Blendz of Downtown San Jose feel that healthy eating is one of the keys to success.

SAN JOSE, Calif. a ' A shambling sentence about screaming seafarers on the sturdy whaler Ellie May stood shoulders above the rest in an annual bad-writing contest.

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

Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputies arrested one man and are searching for at least one other in connection with a secret pot garden bust that netted 6,100 marijuana plants with a street value of $18 million.

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 historical pillars that once served as gateways to San Jose's Hanchett Park neighborhood will return in spirit this holiday weekend, when a replica set of pillars is slated to be unveiled at the annual Rose, White and Blue Parade and Festival.

SAN JOSE, Calif. A Federal Way man's shambling sentence about screaming seafarers stood shoulders above the rest in an annual bad writing contest.

Two men died after their motorcycles collided west of Morgan Hill. A 19-year-old San Jose man was traveling northbound on Uvas Road north of Oak Glen Avenue on a 2002 Honda CBR900 at an unknown speed when he crossed the Llagas Creek Bridge about 7:35 p.m. Monday.

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

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A shambling sentence about screaming seafarers on the sturdy whaler Ellie May stood shoulders above the rest in an annual bad writing contest.

After the scorching weekend, Raul Bendaras started work Monday morning on the air conditioning system at a Santa Clara County building on North First Street.

San Jose's high temperature Sunday - a breezy 96 - fell just shy of the record 100 degrees forecasters had been predicting.

Ever since San Jose Councilwoman Madison Nguyen beat back the effort to recall her in March, pundits have debated which end of the city's political spectrum helped her the most: labor, which provided cash and volunteers; or Mayor Chuck Reed, who gave crucial support early in the Little Saigon fracas? And, those pundits wondered, which side would ...

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.

A rogue's gallery of philandering politicians in recent years has illuminated an essential political truth: Not all sex scandals are created equal.

Firefighters mopped up a creek blaze in the east foothills of San Jose Thursday afternoon.