San Jose News

San Jose Councilwoman Nora Campos will hold a community meeting Tuesday night to receive feedback from residents in the wake of a Halloween night gang attack against two Lee Mathson Middle School students.

San Jose redevelopment chief Harry Mavrogenes spent Monday trying to sell the City Council on a 2009-10 budget plan he insists makes tough cuts amid a cratering economy.

Last spring, San Jose employees cried foul when Mayor Chuck Reed finally outlined what they needed to do to help balance the budget by June 30 with minimal layoffs: zero raises across the board.

The San Jose Photoshop User Group is meeting next Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Adobe SJ office .

When her friends last saw her on Friday, Cheryl Ann Mendoza was enjoying hot dogs and chicken at a barbecue in San Jose's Columbus Park, basking in her release that day from Valley Medical Center.

The use of force by the San Jose Police Department is under intense review. Recent cell phone video captured the arrest of a San Jose State student which raised questions about excessive force by the officers -- and this isn't the first such case.

On Oct. 31, Orlando Ramos was in Richmond, comforting community members he met when he was principal of the high school there, the same campus that's now notorious for the Oct.

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Thousands of people lined up in San Jose for swine flu vaccine shots at a Santa Clara County health department clinic.

Starting budget talks early in an attempt to patch together a $96.4 million budget deficit for next year, San Jose City Council members hope to distribute the funding squeeze evenly between taxpayers, city workers and service cuts.

Employees of the low-rise Hawaiiana Hotel on Waikiki's Beach Walk are telling guests that the 54-year-old property is being shut down as a hotel in the wake of two of three property owners facing financial troubles.

A train hit and killed someone on the northbound Caltrain tracks in San Jose at about 3:40 p.m. today.

Copy of a two-year-old photo taken of Daniel Pham, 27, of San Jose who was shot and killed by San Jose police on May 10, 2009 at his home in San Jose.

Facing a budget shortfall that has widened to $96.4 million, the San Jose City Council voted Thursday to seek a third of the funds from the pockets of taxpayers, with an equal measure coming from city workers and hope that operational efficiencies and restructuring can cover the rest.

Santa Clara County prosecutors are filing adult charges against three juveniles accused of attacking two Halloween trick or treaters.

San Jose officials have ordered the release of 911 tapes in connection with the deadly shooting by officers of a mentally ill man in May, and San Jose's mayor is hopeful the release of the tapes will help build trust in the department.

Responding to Mercury News articles raising concerns about the use of force by San Jose police officers, Police Chief Rob Davis announced new layers of internal review to guard against officers' misusing their fists, batons, Tasers and guns to subdue suspects.

A night of Halloween fun turned into a fight for life for a 12-year-old San Jose boy who was shot in the head while he and his friend were trick-or-treating. The boy was shot and his 13-year-old friend was stabbed several times as they went house-to-house Saturday night.

San Jose police are investigating a Monday night shooting that seriously injured one person.

A funny thing has happened since the Obama administration recently declared it would stop cracking down on medical marijuana in states that allow it like California: While strait-laced, law-abiding San Jose is considering a pitch to attract more medical pot clubs, surf city Santa Cruz is signaling enough is enough.