San Jose

It wouldn’t be the Fourth of July without San Jose product Joey “Jaws” Chestnut taking center stage and scarfing down hot dogs at an alarming rate.

The San Jose Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying a woman suspected of coughing on a 1-year-old’s face.

A tribe of goats went wild Tuesday evening in a neighborhood in east San Jose.

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San Jose police, with the help of a security guard, arrested a 70-year-old man this week on suspicion of kidnapping and molesting a 13-year-old girl, according to the police department.

A San Jose shooting suspect was struck and killed by a woman early Christmas morning in what investigators say was a vehicular homicide, according to San Jose police.

The public has voted and the Shedd Aquarium’s new otter pups have been named.

The top headlines you need to know as you start your day on Sept. 30, 2019.

It’s an elegant and appetizing twist on the the classic San Jose haunt experience.

A 6-year-old boy was one of the three people killed when a gunman opened fire Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, a family event southeast of San Jose that he attended with his mother and grandmother.

Congressman Dan Lipinski and his wife were at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, when a gunman opened fire, killing three people over the weekend, he wrote on social media Monday, calling the event “frightening.”

The stolen ashes of a 2-year-old girl were returned to her South Bay family on Sunday, the family has confirmed.

Costa Rica issued a nationwide warning after at least 19 deaths were attributed to methanol poisoning from contaminated alcohol consumption.

Police are investigating a heart-wrenching crime in the South Bay in which the ashes of a 2-year-old girl were stolen from a cemetery.

Jay-Z is heading into the legal marijuana industry as a chief brand strategist in partnership with a California cannabis product company. The rapper said in a statement Tuesday that he entered a multiyear deal with San Jose, California-based Caliva. His role will consist of driving creative direction, outreach efforts and strategy for the brand.

Five teens have been arrested in a string of San Jose robberies and carjackings that took place in March and involved the use of a fake account on the dating app Tinder, according to the San Jose Police Department.

Facebook-owned Instagram is going to test hiding “like” counts this week as a way to make “a less pressurized environment” on the app, Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday. “We want people to worry a little bit less about how many likes they’re getting on Instagram and spend a bit more time connecting with the people that they...

The Sunnyvale police chief says new evidence indicates Isaiah Peoples deliberately drove into a crowd of pedestrians based on race and ethnicity, and believed that some in the group were Muslims.

When high school junior Tanvi Barman was a little girl, her mother used to take her and her sister to a local homeless shelter to help serve meals. Starting in 8th grade, Tanvi began organizing cakes, entertainment, and pizza for kids at shelters. She’s done more than 30 parties since and is serving five different shelters.

Once the darling of Silicon Valley, Elizabeth Holmes, founder of failed startup Theranos, was in court Monday, now a suspected felon.