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SAN JOSE – A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries in a hit-and-run crash Wednesday night in San Jose, police said. The collision was reported just before 6:30 p.m. near 10th and East Santa Clara streets, according to the San Jose…

PALO ALTO – Police are looking for witnesses to a collision that left an elderly pedestrian dead earlier this week in Palo Alto. The crash was reported around 10:25 a.m. Monday at Charleston Road and Commercial Street, the Palo Alto Police…

SAN JOSE – A driver hit two pedestrians Monday night in San Jose, sending one to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. The collision was reported around 4:40 p.m. at Larkspur Canyon Drive and Stoney Creek Place,…

SAN JOSE – As the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office contends with a spike in fentanyl overdoses at the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas, the medical examiner-coroner’s office has identified a 44-year-old inmate who died after…

PALO ALTO — A 26-year-old man was arrested Thursday afternoon in Palo Alto on suspicion of spitting in the face of one bus driver and wrapping his arms around another before running from officers and trying to carjack a woman, police said.…

SANTA CLARA — Police are continuing to search for a hit-and-run driver who critically injured an electric bicyclist last month in Santa Clara. The collision was reported around 4:55 p.m. on Feb. 23 at El Camino Real and Lawrence Expressway,…

PALO ALTO — Authorities on Friday announced an arrest in a recent overnight residential burglary as well as three other attempted residential burglaries in Palo Alto. The suspect — identified as a 28-year-old Palo Alto man — was arrested…

Falling snow and trees and flooding closed major roads in the Santa Cruz Mountains early Friday as the Bay Area bore through a rare winter storm that dumped several inches of snow at elevations below 1,000 feet across Northern California.…

PALO ALTO – For the second time this month, a burglar broke into an occupied home in Palo Alto, police said. Authorities are investigating if the latest incident is connected to the previous burglary, as well as four prowling cases that…

SAN JOSE – A former Silicon Valley Bank executive will serve 15 months in prison for falsifying letters of reference to obtain a lighter sentence in a securities fraud case, federal prosecutors said. Mounir Gad, the bank’s former vice…