Esmeralda Hernandez Pulido targeted tenants, friends and acquaintances with mortgage promises and a betrayed community savings pool.

A second alarm brought 10 fire rigs and 40 personnel to the Rose Court blaze before dawn Wednesday.

A welfare check on Meadow Glen Way turned into a standoff Tuesday before two children were rescued unharmed.

A UCLA student and a UC Santa Cruz student from Downey, along with a Soledad teen, died when a Honda veered into oncoming traffic south of Salinas.

A woman was pronounced dead at the scene after a driver fled the crash near North Capitol Avenue late Monday. CHP says the vehicle remains undescribed.

Deputies blocked the rural Watsonville road after finding the man unresponsive Saturday evening. No arrests have been made.

A man struck near Biscayne Way in September died October 2, making San Jose's 2026 toll 39.

The crash was one of two fatal San Jose freeway collisions reported the same Monday morning.

Binghui Liu posed as a federal agent to scare victims into handing over cash — until an FBI sting caught him at the door.

A false gun report sent six armed officers into a packed San Jose auditorium Saturday night, one moviegoer calling it “so scary.”

Three children, ages 3, 6 and 14, were found at the family's Vintage Lane home and placed into county care.

A four-vehicle crash before dawn left northbound I-280 lanes jammed near Highway 87, with no reopening time in sight.

A bystander yanked the object from the water at Cooley Landing before calling police, who cordoned off the East Palo Alto park.