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ABC 7: SJ launching 'Saturday Night Lights' pilot program in efforts to reduce teen gang violence
Law enforcement in San Jose hope soccer can be part of the solution to a rise in gang violence.
Los Angeles Times: Felony charges for pro-Palestinian Stanford students? Trump will love this
With masks on and wearing layers of clothing in the hopes of changing their looks before escaping, a dozen pro-Palestinian activists broke a window in the building housing the president’s office at Stanford University last June, so one of them could crawl through and open doors for the rest.
NBC Bay Area: Disgraced former San Jose Councilman Omar Torres pleads no contest to sex crimes
Disgraced former San Jose City Councilman Omar Torres pleaded no contest Tuesday morning to charges of sex crimes, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
ABC 7: Ex-Santa Clara councilmember avoids jail time in 49ers perjury case
Former Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker will avoid time in jail after being found guilty of felony perjury last year.
San Francisco Chronicle: 49ers-backed former Santa Clara official sentenced to 40 days in county work program
Anthony Becker, a former Santa Clara City Council member and mayoral candidate whose political career was financed with millions of dollars in donations from the San Francisco 49ers, was sentenced Friday to 40 days in a county jail work program in the wake of his felony perjury conviction.
Mercury News: Man who preyed on teen girls convicted of San Jose rape, SF kidnapping
A man who preyed on young girls online by posing as a teen faces life in prison after a Santa Clara County jury convicted him of raping a San Jose girl in 2016 and later trying to snatch a 13-year-old girl off a San Francisco street, before he was famously thwarted by good Samaritans who rescued her from his grasp.
KRON 4: Banana Boat, Hawaiian Tropic sunscreens not ‘reef friendly,’ lawsuit claims
The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said it filed a consumer protection lawsuit this week over a pair of popular sunscreens that were falsely advertised to Californians as “reef friendly.”
Mercury News: San Jose cold case: Imprisoned man sentenced to eight years to life for 1994 Oakridge Mall kidnapping
A Santa Clara County judge sentenced a man Monday to eight years in prison in a three-decade-old cold case kidnapping solved by DNA evidence in 2022.
Mercury News: Sunnyvale: Man arrested in 2009 rape, kidnapping after cold-case investigation
A man suspected of kidnapping and raping a woman in 2009 was arrested this week following a cold-case investigation that drew on re-examined DNA evidence to link him to the attack as well as a reported rape two years earlier, according to authorities and court documents.
ABC 7: 18-year-old suspect involved in fatal Valentine's Day stabbing at San Jose's Santana Row denied bail
The lone adult suspect involved in an assault against 15-year-old David Gutierrez in Santana Row last month was denied bail Friday.