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San Jose police have arrested two men in connection with the shooting death of a man sitting in his vehicle in East San Jose in 2020. Police announced Aug. 16 that they had arrested 27-year-old Hulizes Garcia-Urista and 29-year-old Jairo Ortiz-Plancarte last week.

An investigator’s hunch led the DA’s Office to a suspect in the 33-year-old gang murder of a 14-year-old in San Jose. The man, who was living under another name in Ohio, was killed in a shootout with the FBI 17 years ago.

Responding to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s calls for a crackdown, officials in the San Mateo-Foster City School District and others across the state say banning smartphones improves test scores and results in a decline in depression, bullying and fights.

While the Democratic Party has rallied around Vice President Kamala Harris after President Joe Biden bowed to pressure not to run for re-election, a few uncommitted delegates may still need convincing.

Proposition 32 to increase the minimum wage from $16 to $18 isn’t as far-reaching as when it was first proposed. Fast food workers are already making more, and health care employees are on track. But worker groups are already pushing for more.

Legislators blocked more than 270 bills, partly due to the budget crunch, in the second round of suspense file hearings this year. The 500 bills that survived must still win final approval by Aug. 31 to reach Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk.

Kihn toured the world and won a number of awards for his hit songs “Jeopardy,” “The Breakup Song,” “Remember” and “Lucky,” and was well known to Bay Area audiences as the morning radio host for KFOX for 17 years.

On October 13, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Digital Financial Assets Law (DFAL), marking a significant step in regulating the digital asset market.

One day before the deadline, the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority pulled a $20 billion affordable housing bond off Bay Area ballots amid fears that it wouldn’t pass.

The death this month of an immunocompromised adult at a local hospital “after experiencing West Nile virus symptoms” is the county's second reported human case of the potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus. The other patient is recovering at home.

Police reported that during violent incidents that began more than a year ago at his Morgan Hill home, Officer Timothy Hackney threw his girlfriend into a bedroom and would not let her leave, forcibly covered her mouth so she couldn’t scream and slapped a phone out of her hand so that she couldn’t call 911.

All three defendants – Matthew Farris, 36, Jereh Lubrin, 37 and Rafael Rodriguez, 40 – admitted to voluntary manslaughter, seven years after being convicted of second-degree murder and two years after those convictions were overturned by an appellate court.

Some California agencies are offering incentives and hosting workshops for school districts that want to build affordable housing for teachers.

The state’s landlords see rising insurance costs, so they say they’re going to have to raise rents. But they complain about laws that limit how much they can do so.

The sprawling bill that offers protection to whistleblowers and citizens was approved 32-1 by the state Senate in May faces a vote in the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday and must win final approval by Aug. 31 to reach Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk this year.