12 guns, bombs and 25,000 bullets recovered from home of VTA shooter
SAN JOSE — Authorities found a small arsenal inside VTA shooter Samuel Cassidy’s home: a dozen firearms, 25,000 rounds of ammunition and a dozen Molotov cocktails. The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s...
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San Jose mass shooting: VTA shooter’s family apologizes, says he felt lost to...
CUPERTINO — In their first extended interview, the family of the VTA shooter who unleashed the Bay Area’s deadliest mass shooting this week said Friday he felt “lost” to them for months. He was often...
View ArticleJudge OKs class action for more than 10,000 women over alleged Google gender...
A state court judge has approved class-action status for a long-running lawsuit accusing Google of paying certain female employees less than men. The decision this week by San Francisco County Superior...
View ArticleSan Jose State’s Marie Tuite denied in grievance case over sex abuse allegations
SAN JOSE — Former San Jose State athletic director Marie Tuite lost an appeal of a grievance against her in a case of retaliation against swim coach Sage Hopkins who had raised concerns about the...
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The San Francisco mass shooting that changed everything … and nothing
It was 1993. Bill Clinton was president, Kurt Cobain was touring with Nirvana, the first “Jurassic Park” movie had just been released — and people still felt safe going to work. But that summer, a...
View ArticleSan Quentin condemned inmate persuades Newsom to order review
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday ordered an independent investigation into the conviction of death row inmate Kevin Cooper, who says he was framed for the stabbing deaths of four people, including two...
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Horror at the VTA: The unbridled terror, true heroism behind Bay Area’s...
After the shooting stopped and the shouting ended and all his panicked co-workers had fled, Kirk Bertolet rushed through the maze of Building B, at the service yard for Santa Clara County’s light rail...
View ArticleVTA mass shooting: South Bay light-rail service suspended indefinitely
SAN JOSE — Light-rail service in the greater South Bay is on hold indefinitely in the wake of the mass shooting at a Valley Transportation Authority rail yard that ended in the slayings of nine transit...
View ArticleNovato loses bid to derail ex-lieutenant’s lawsuit
A Marin County judge has rejected a motion by the city of Novato to dismiss a former police lieutenant’s lawsuit on procedural grounds. John McCarthy filed the suit last year, alleging he was forced...
View ArticleFirefighters battle two fires in Santa Cruz mountains, containing one
BOULDER CREEK — Firefighters Monday battled two fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains in locations in the footprint of last summer’s CZU Lightning Complex Fire. The first blaze, known as the Grade Fire,...
View ArticleOne dead, one hurt in Marin City shooting
Marin County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a double shooting over the weekend that left one man dead and another person injured in Marin City. Deputies responded to reports of multiple gunshots...
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‘I got the subject’: Body camera footage reveals final moments of VTA shooting
SAN JOSE — New body camera footage released Tuesday reveals the final eerie minutes of last week’s mass shooting at a light rail yard, showing law enforcement swarmed a building where a disgruntled...
View ArticleMore than 40 pounds of fentanyl seized in Bay Area’s ‘largest ever’ bust,...
OAKLAND — In what federal prosecutors are calling the biggest fentanyl bust in Bay Area history, more than 40 pounds of the deadly drug were seized from two suspected distribution houses in Oakland and...
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San Jose mass shooting: Victims’ families say goodbye, express ‘need to know...
UNION CITY — The inconsolable cries of Taptej Singh’s 3-year-old son keep the two dozen relatives staying at the family home this week awake at night. The boy, Jotsaroop, calls out for his father. “We...
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Map: What parts of California are at highest wildfire risk this summer
Almost all of Northern California, including the Bay Area, will come under heightened wildfire risk by the end of the summer, says the seasonal report issued by federal fire officials. Drought is a...
View ArticleMarin jury deadlocks in Strawberry threat probe
The trial of a Marin man accused of threatening to shoot a family member has ended in a hung jury. Johnson Gibbs, 47, of Strawberry was arrested in November after an incident on Bayview Terrace....
View ArticleNovato firefighters respond to vegetation fire
Firefighters responded to a vegetation fire in Novato’s Greenpoint neighborhood on Thursday, authorities said. #Novato (Marin Co) – E62 reported 1 acre of grass running up hill, requested a 2nd alarm....
View ArticleSan Rafael police: Suspect attacked 73-year-old man
Police arrested a suspect in the assault of a 73-year-old man in downtown San Rafael. Witnesses called police at about 1:30 p.m. Sunday after seeing the bleeding victim in the area of Second and Irwin...
View ArticleBranson School faces another sexual abuse lawsuit
A former student at Branson School in Ross has filed a lawsuit alleging it failed to protect her from sexual abuse by an assistant basketball coach. The suit is the second such action against the...
View ArticleMarin school district chief arrested in child molestation probe
The superintendent of the Shoreline Unified School District was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of child molestation. Robert Patrick Raines, 67, was booked into Marin County Jail on a count of lewd and...
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