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3 dead, 4 injured after Amtrak train hits car in Bay Area

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Three people died and at least four others were injured when an Amtrak train slammed into a car Sunday afternoon near Brentwood, sending it careening off a long dirt driveway and into another vehicle, a California Highway Patrol officer on scene said.

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Jury awards whopping $21 million to family of pregnant teen killed by Fremont police

SAN JOSE, Calif. – In a landmark verdict that’s one of the highest of its kind nationwide, a federal jury awarded $21 million in damages to the family of 16-year-old Elena Mondragon, who was fatally shot by Fremont police over five years ago.

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How California is rushing to protect and expand abortion access following Supreme Court’s Roe decision

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Long before the Supreme Court’s bombshell decision Friday overturning Roe v. Wade, transforming reproductive rights for the first time in 50 years, California had laws protecting access to an abortion within its own borders.

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Silicon Valley Pain Index: Income gap widens along racial lines

For three years now, the San Jose State professor Scott Myers-Lipton has held a mirror to Silicon Valley’s staggering wealth divide, and reflected the disparities: Less than 1% of the Valley’s households account for 25% of the region’s bountiful wealth, while more than 45% of the Valley’s children live in…

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‘We aren’t going anywhere:’ Drag Queen Story Hour forges ahead

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Vowing that “we aren’t going anywhere,” the performer King Art Babe forged ahead Tuesday evening with the Alameda County Library’s first Drag Queen Story Hour event since a group of apparent Proud Boys members disrupted another reading earlier this month in San Lorenzo, Calif.

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‘Discriminatory in nature’: San Jose looks to repeal decades-old cruising ban

In the 1970s, the intricately detailed cars with sleek paint jobs and lowered bodies cruised up and down Story and King in the heart of East San Jose. The largely Mexican-American neighborhood had become an epicenter of lowrider culture, building off what had begun on Whittier Boulevard in East Los…

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California drought: ‘Smart’ water meters coming to San Jose, other Bay Area cities in latest effort to boost conservation

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$5.3 billion: San Jose to San Francisco high-speed rail costs balloon by over 200%

Plagued by years of funding shortages and spiraling costs, California’s beleaguered high-speed rail project suffered another unexpected blow this month in a new report that more than tripled the cost estimate for the San Francisco-to-San Jose segment to a staggering $5.3 billion.

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Budget airline rebrands ‘Z’ symbol logo amid Russia war symbol comparison

Japan’s Zipair will soon begin flying between Tokyo and San Jose

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Red flag law used in 6 recent Bay Area school gun threats

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The day after an 18-year-old fatally shot 19 young pupils and two teachers at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and reignited the nation’s firearms debate, Los Gatos police said a middle school boy claiming access to guns had threatened to “shoot up the school.”

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San Jose set to remove parking requirements in the near future

San Jose, California, is now one step closer to removing a longstanding policy that has resulted in an oversupply of parking throughout the city, sprawl and higher housing costs.

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Relatives suspected of killing 3-year-old in church exorcism could be tried together in August

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The mother, grandfather and uncle of a 3-year-old girl who died during an exorcism at San Jose church will be tried together on charges connected to her death, after a judge ruled Monday that prosecutors could consolidate the cases.

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PG&E ‘excessively delayed’ its response to monster Dixie fire inferno, California report says

SAN JOSE, Calif. — PG&E’s response to the mammoth Dixie fire of 2021 was “excessively delayed,” a blunder that was a major factor behind the spread of the devastating inferno, according to a newly released state report.

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Bay Area’s Class of 2022 lived high school through a pandemic. Their speeches capture it all

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Before Calvin Yang walks across the stage at Hayward High School on Saturday, he’ll remind the Class of 2022 about collective memories that only pandemic graduates can claim. Like the “nauseating loading screen we have all experienced at some point” during months of remote learning. And…

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President Clinton to speak at Mineta memorial in San Jose

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will lead a who’s-who of political speakers at the San Jose memorial for Norman Y. Mineta next week.

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Ukrainian president calls San Jose for keeping ties with Russian city despite invasion

SAN JOSE, Calif. — After getting blasted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week for maintaining ties with a Russian city that manufactures war rockets, a San Jose City Council member wants the city to reconsider its stance.

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The last thing backyard chicken farmers want to hear: cock-a-doodle-doo

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Those adorable balls of fluff and feathers that were so irresistible at Easter can become a backyard chicken fancier’s worst nightmare when four months later, one starts crowing.

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Aftershock Festival calls on Muse to fill Foo Fighters spot

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Muse, one of the best live acts on the planet, has been announced as a replacement headliner for the Aftershock Festival in Sacramento.

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Why we need better COVID vaccines this fall

SAN JOSE, Calif. — New research by a team of San Francisco scientists is raising questions about the usefulness of a new omicron-specific COVID vaccine for next fall, as the virus quickly evolves and the risk of illness is likely to soar.

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PayPal Lays Off Employees As Growth Stagnates After Pandemic Recovery, Supply Chain Disruptions

PayPal Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) began laying off risk management and operations employees working in Chicago, Omaha, Nebraska, and Chandler, Arizona, this week, Bloomberg reports. PayPal ended 2021 with 30,900 employees, a 33% increase from pre-pandemic levels. PayPal incurred $20 million in costs tied to its restructuring in the first three months of…

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Jon Wilner: Pac-12 deepens roots in the Valley of the Sun as major sporting events move West

SAN JOSE, Calif. — We’ll pause from reporting on the eye-opening developments across college football to offer a truly insane piece of news: Phoenix has become a college sports town.

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Downtown San Jose church faces lawsuit over mass stabbing attack

SAN JOSE — More than a year after five people were stabbed there in a brutal attack that sent shock waves through the community, Grace Baptist Church in downtown San Jose is facing a new lawsuit that accuses it of failing to protect those who worked and took refuge on…

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Hybrid work in the Bay Area: Data suggests region nearing its ‘new normal’

SAN JOSE, California — Caroline Mills now goes into her San Jose office at accounting giant Ernst & Young whenever her team agrees they want to — and sometimes when the company puts on the Wednesday happy hour featuring beer, wine and Asian-fusion food-truck treats. That weekly grub-and-gab session did…

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The Catholic Church's views on exorcism have changed – a religious studies scholar explains why

In September 2021, a 3-year-old was killed during an exorcism in a small Pentecostal church in San Jose, California. The child’s throat was allegedly squeezed and her head held down during the ceremony, which likely asphyxiated her. In May 2022, three members of the victim’s family were charged with felony…

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Apple spent millions, but it couldn’t pull these San Jose residents out of homelessness

SAN JOSE, California — When Apple wanted to clear a large homeless encampment from its property last year, the tech giant didn’t just sweep everyone off the site — it spent millions of dollars to give dozens of people a nine-month motel stay and help them find housing.

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