San Jose - Crime & Emergencies

The Los Gatos mother who is making national headlines for allegedly hosting parties for teenagers complete with sex and booze will be staying in jail for now after bail was denied.

The San Jose City Council took action this week in hopes of making one of the city’s deadliest intersections safer for people crossing the street.

San Francisco-based Airbnb is now suing the guest who apparently threw a massive and deadly party at a home they booked in Sunnyvale on August 7th.

The safety of Airbnb rentals is once again being questioned after a deadly shooting inside a rented party house in Sunnyvale around 10 p.m. Saturday night.

A new mask mandate went back into effect Tuesday encompassing almost the entire Bay Area, but there are of course some rebel-minded retail shoppers in the South Bay who are armed with their smartphone cameras and are blatantly breaking the rules.

Officials in San Jose say crimes like prostitution and drug use are an everyday occurrence at Agave Sports Bar and Grill on Alma Street, and now they’ve taken an aggressive step to shut down the establishment.

Santa Clara is the latest Bay Area city to join other cities and counties across the state to declare a local emergency because of worsening drought conditions.

Last month, the city of San Jose became a pioneer of gun reform. Now San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo is taking his push for tougher gun laws to the White House, at a meeting with President Joe Biden and city officials from around the country.

Residents of San Jose's Villages retirement community say that coyotes have been attacking and killing their dogs and cats.

As the Bay Area heads into Fourth of July weekend, communities faces a "perfect storm" of extreme-drought conditions, wildfire danger, pent-up, post-COVID demand for partying, and now, both legal and illegal fireworks being sold in some South Bay municipalities.

A snorkeler who was bitten by a shark off the San Mateo County coast has shared his story.

Santa Clara County law enforcement officers appear to have a lower COVID-19 vaccination rate than the general public, with around 64 percent so far confirming they're fully vaccinated.

On Friday, a suspected drunk driver ran into an outdoor dining area outside a San Jose bar, killing one person and injuring two others. 

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority had investigated or disciplined mass shooter Samuel Cassidy four times before he opened fire on coworkers in May.

A mother from San Jose has been arrested on a charge of murder after her 7-year-old son was found dead in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced Tuesday.

A mass shooting on Wednesday morning at the Valley Transit Authority (VTA) light rail yard (101 W. Younger Ave.) in downtown San Jose has claimed the lives of at least eight people, likely all VTA workers, and the shooter also reportedly took his own life at the scene.

Their ducks may have come home to roost for three Santa Clara residents accused of stealing a neighborhood icon: a duck statue named Rubberta that normally resides in the front yard of a private home in Mountain View.

A mountain lion scaled a six-foot-high fence in Woodside Wednesday evening and attacked a dog, whose owner drove onto the lawn to scare off the big cat.

The San Jose Police Department says it has arrested 13 alleged gang members in connection with a wave of violent robberies particularly targeting gardeners and landscapers.

Last week we learned the shocking accusations against a Santa Clara County Deputy who allegedly lied about surviving an ambush-style, drive-by, hate-crime shooting on a dark, rural road over a year ago.

A 40-year-old homeless man from San Jose is back in jail after police say he returned to the scene of a preschool where he was arrested days before for a bizarre crime spree.

The man who was killed on January 21 by SJPD officers has now been identified as 27-year-old David Lee Tovar Jr., and police say he was unarmed when they shot him.

Officers with the San Jose Police Department shot and killed a homicide suspect near an apartment complex on the east side of the city Thursday morning.

A hunger strike is underway at the main jail in Santa Clara County with inmates not eating for one week so far. The inmates are trying to draw attention to what they call unsafe pandemic conditions and unfair treatment of inmates who test positive for Covid-19.

Valley Christian High School is being sued by Allison Brown, a former athlete, who was sexually abused by her basketball coach, Gregory Marshall. Brown wants the school to be accountable after she said they "did nothing to protect me." Marshall is currently facing 24 felony counts of sexual abuse of minors.