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Dozens of neighbors in an exclusive Evergreen enclave are fighting a proposed 10-acre development they say will increase the number of homes in their area by 25 times what's allowed under the current general plan.

Sixty feet off the ground, Straun Edwards was lacing a strand of Christmas lights around a redwood branch, looking focused but as confident and comfortable as if his feet were firmly planted on the ground.

"People were shouting fire, fire, fire!'' said Lucas Chen, who lived with his mother and sister in one of the damaged units at the Park Kiely Apartments on Norwalk Drive.

This is a proposed baseball stadium site near Diridon Station in San Jose. The site has cleared an initial review, but there are still many hurdles that make the possibility of the A's playing in San Jose a long shot.

Once deemed a key to downtown San Jose's revival, the Zanotto's grocery on South Second Street may have to close because it has been losing money since August, when a new Safeway opened a half block away, according to Zanotto's co-owner Troy Tibbils.

Seven adults and two children won't be able to spend Thanksgiving night in their homes, following a two-alarm fire that damaged a large San Jose building made up of businesses and apartments, a fire captain said.

A man is suffering from life-threatening injuries after he and three others were stabbed in a bar fight in San Jose this morning, according to police.

Along with its famed eccentricities such as impromptu street theater and accordion player The Great Morgani, Pacific Avenue has become one of the few places where visitors regularly encounter cats on leashes.

Moss Landing harbormaster, San Juan Bautista city clerk and former Marina City Councilwoman Linda McIntyre was released from a San Jose hospital last week after losing a leg in a motorcycle accident Sept.

San Jose police on Monday night were investigating a drive-by shooting that left a man injured.

In this June 2003 file photo, Former Arizona Cardinals football player-turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman, is shown in a photo released by Photography Plus.

Area food banks and social service agencies are collecting donations to help the needy through the Christmas and New Year's holidays.

Members of the San Jose community gathered Tuesday afternoon alongside the family and friends of a mentally ill man who was fatally shot by police on Mother's Day to call for police accountability in his killing.

Oakland may be a loser when it comes to crime but at least one Bay Area city is a winner.

Two San Jose men suspected in the shooting death of a 25-year-old man whose body was found in South San Jose pleaded not guilty Monday afternoon to murder charges, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.

San Jose police were seeking assistance Tuesday in locating victims who may have had contact with a man suspected of taking pornographic pictures of children under the guise of taking modeling photos.

Retiring chancellor Rosa Perez has been under fire for wasting district funds on home furnishings, club memberships, expensive hotel stays and expensive artwork.

Back when this was the Valley of Heart's Delight, everyone was a locavore. So it makes sense for History San Jose to put a new, close-to-home spin on its annual Heritage Holiday event Dec.

Yesenia Contreras,36, with husband Samuel Contreras,52, meets with the press for the first time, they are the parents of the boy that was shot, one of the two boys attacked by gang-bangers Halloween night at San Jose Police Department in San Jose, Calif.

Already grappling with one multibillion-dollar budget deficit, cash-strapped California now is facing a crisis in its unemployment insurance fund - source of the tens of millions paid each week to jobless residents.

As a 12-year-old boy lay gravely wounded from a shooting on Halloween night, his neighbors plan to press public officials for answers and a strong response at a public meeting Monday night in East San Jose.

Two San Jose men were charged Friday with gross vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving in the death of a third motorist during a street race last month.

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed on Friday proposed freezing new redevelopment spending for several months in light of a $75 million state money grab.

Two drivers were charged today following a street race last month that killed an innocent woman - a former San Jose high school cheerleader - and injured her friend as they were on their way back from a shopping trip for milk.

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Responding to growing concerns about the use of force by San Jose police, a City Council committee Thursday turned to officials outside the department to examine the issue.

The bottom shelf of the frozen waffle section is empty on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.

Netbooks in the enterprise are coming, some observers believe. And whether it takes a year or five for netbooks to catch on in Corporate America, it behooves IT managers to get ready sooner rather than having to clean up a mess later on.

A newly enhanced video of the arrest of a San Jose State University student further deepens the questions about why police repeatedly struck him with batons and shocked him with a Taser gun, as the student never speaks defiantly to the officers.

The frozen waffle is officially an endangered species. Kellogg says there will be a nationwide shortage of its Eggo frozen waffles until next summer because of hiccups in production at two of its four plants.

San Jose police have released a photograph of a 20-year-old man wanted in connection with the shooting death that occurred in May on the city's East Side.

A 38-year-old San Jose resident accused of raping a woman in her Mountain View home in 2007 has pleaded no contest and was sentenced last week to 25 years to life in prison, Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Amy Cornell said.

The new artist's rendering depicting what an expansion and renovation of the 20-year-old McEnery Convention Center might look like if plans go forward.

Editor's Note: Due to a production error, the full version of this story did not run in some Wednesday editions of the Mercury News.

San Jose Police have arrested two teenagers in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old San Jose boy outside his home.

San Jose Unified School District's chief nurse, Melinda Landau, talks with Adreanna Correia, 18, who came to pick up forms during presentation with Physicians from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and San Jose Unified nurses at H1N1 Information Parent Night at San Jose High Academy in San Jose, California on Thursday, November 12, 2009.

On Friday, November 13, 2009 shortly after 11:00 pm, units of the San Jose Fire Department responded to reports of fire in a two-story, multi-unit residential occupancy at 5506 Makati Circle on the city's south side.

This has been the year of the bicyclist in the South Bay, and it's going to get even better.

San Jose firefighters battle a three-alarm fire at a condominium complex just after 11:00 pm on Nov.

Hoping to avert what they believe will cause undue hardship for many, hundreds of San Jose residents packed City Hall's council chamber Tuesday night, pleading with officials not to permit the city's cash-strapped redevelopment agency to raid affordable housing funds.

San Jose police this afternoon released recordings and transcripts of 911 and police dispatch tapes in the shooting death of a mentally ill man who had attacked his brother with a knife.

Parents feel outraged and afraid about a vicious attack on two children. Parents gathered at a community meeting to talk about a Halloween night assault on two innocent trick-or-treaters. Hundreds of people packed the cafeteria at Lee Mathson Middle School on Tuesday evening.

The largest provider of shelter, food and supportive services in Silicon Valley announced Wednesday that it is kicking off its drive for donations and volunteers for the holiday season.

More than two-thirds of the people living in San Jose approve of the job Mayor Chuck Reed is doing.

Mr. Roadshow tested the Highway 101 evening commute Monday, the first day metering lights were working from Palo Alto to San Jose's airport.

San Jose parade: Opening ceremony at 11 a.m. at Plaza de Cesar Chavez, followed by the city's 91st annual Veterans Day parade at noon Wednesday.

Rosa Perez, chancellor of the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District for more than four years, has announced she will retire from the job June 30.

Hundreds of people turned out in San Jose Tuesday night to learn more about gang problems on the east side of the city and potential solutions.

San Jose police are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old boy who was killed in his own backyard.

Santa Clara County Tuesday announced a surprising $28.3 million deal for the site of the former San Jose Medical Center, which was closed in Dec.

NOVEMBER 10: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signs California State bill SBX7-7 during a bill signing ceremony at the Santa Clara Water District offices November 10, 2009 in San Jose, California.

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.

Two American bulldog pitbull mix dogs are dead, an animal control officer is recovering from nine dog bites, and two men have been arrested after a vicious early morning attack in a San Jose homeowner's backyard.

A San Jose middle school is reeling with grief and shock after learning that two of its students, described by the principal as "nice, hard-working boys," were the victims of a violent attack on Halloween night.

San Jose police killed one large bulldog and wounded another in an attempt to rescue an animal control officer who was severely mauled by the dogs this morning, police and fire spokesmen said.

Mountain View police were seeking help Monday in locating a woman who walked out of El Camino Hospital and may be a danger to herself.

A 12-year-old boy was shot in the head and his 13-year-old friend was stabbed while they were trick or treating in East San Jose on Halloween night.

The San Jose Police Department will be the first law enforcement agency in the country to use new ear-mounted video and audio recorders on the job this month, and police say they will provide a new window into arrests and other situations.

I support an ordinance in San Jose that allows for the cultivation and sale of medical marijuana dispensaries/collectives. Proposition 215, which was passed with voter approval in 1996, called for the legalization of Medicinal Marijuana with 56 percent of the voters in favor.

A San Jose police officer who noticed a 2-year-old boy gagging Sunday saved the toddler from choking on a piece of Halloween candy.

Scott Wright of San Jose said police used force after he reached in his van to wash his hands.