Srinivasa Kakkera of Pleasanton was sentenced to 18 months in prison for insider trading, and ordered to pay $2.4 million and Abbas Saeedi of Fremont was sentenced to five months in prison for insider trading and ordered to pay $691,000.

Investigation by Santa Clara County's cold case unit and Mountain View police led to the July 9 arrest of John Kevin Woodward at JFK airport in New York City for the strangulation murder of Laurie Houts 30 years ago. Woodward will stand trial for a third time in the case.

The organizers of the new Amazon Labor Union are expected to have enough signatures by today to file for an election with the National Labor Relations Board. Amazon is pushing back against its second union organizing effort.

The New York Times asked three experts from different disciplines to respond to readers’ questions about wearing masks now.

San Jose isn’t alone in having a police force shirk the burden of masking up. NYPD has come under fire for the same reason.

Magdalena Carrasco's sponsored trip last fall to New York City constitutes a violation of state law and will force her to sit on the sidelines for some of this year’s most important City Council votes.

Looking at St. James Park here in San Jose, many people forget that it is not simply a matter of cleaning out undesirable elements to make everything alright.

Influential voices on urban planning from the 1970s should be used for context when we talk about reshaping San Jose's parks—especially St. James Park.

On Monday, San Jose Parks Advocates presented a sold out mayoral forum focused on parks, trails and open space—the first-ever forum of its kind. Getting there was a collaborative process.

The City Parks Alliance website has two very interesting video from two very different mayors: Betsy Price, a Republican from Ft. Worth, Texas, and Michael B. Hancock, a Democrat from Denver. These two mayors co-chair the newly formed group Mayors for Parks. This is a significant development, because the mayor of a city can make a huge difference in the success of developing, constructing and maintaining great parks and trails systems.

I support Bill de Blasio for mayor. Too bad he lives in New York and not San Jose. He gets it. After his primary rival conceded, de Blasio officially became the Democratic candidate for mayor of America’s most populous city. He’s practically a shoe-in to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg. This is a very good thing for the children, families and teachers who live in New York. If only San Jose had such a candidate for its upcoming mayoral race.

I had an incredible experience this past July, attending the Greater & Greener Conference in New York City. It was the largest gathering ever in the United States of Park, Trails and Open Space Professionals, Advocates, and Supporters, with more than 900 people from 200 cities and 20 countries. Some of the critical messages form this conferences are now being applied to our parks here in San Jose.