Five suspects sought in home-invasion robbery in Los Gatos
A Los Gatos homeowner was injured early Wednesday morning after five people forced their way into his residence during a robbery, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.
A Los Gatos homeowner was injured early Wednesday morning after five people forced their way into his residence during a robbery, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.
Passenger rail and certain freight trains must have the safety systems in place by the end of 2018, with some exceptions.
Stephen Curry is making progress from his ankle injury and will be re-evaluated next week, still waiting on Draymond Green (right shoulder) and Zaza Pachulia (left shoulder).
Congressional hearings needed as the three near-misses expose gaping hole in federal regulations.
Re: “White ex-cop gets 20 years for slaying of Walter Scott,” Dec. 8: Will The East Bay Times ever realize that biased reporting is not what customers want? I just returned as a customer after dropping it because it did not provide unbiased reporting. People are tired of the one-sidedness that jumps from the stories […]
Plus: How can I get a transponder to stick to the windshield for more than a month?
According to the San Jose Chicken Littles, the vote to end net neutrality will “destroy the internet.” Funny, I thought the internet has been around for quite a while, ever since Al Gore invented it. The current net neutrality laws came into being in 2015, so all those years prior to that must be fake news, […]
Leo, you'll get an emotional nudge from someone you live with or are close to.
The Mercury News (Page 1A, Dec. 17) focused on the RV community growing exponentially in Mountain View, Sunnyvale and Palo Alto. The number of homeless also continues to grow. It would be impossible to ignore the similarities of America’s Great Depression to the Hoovervilles currently sprouting up in many of our cities. Our community mental […]
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FROM ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION
I’m an older woman with minimal advanced education, yet I can connect dots. From the first dot: a wannabe sole-authority leader with personality issues, proceed to another dot: putting unqualified people in charge of public agencies, people who are dedicated to dismantling/destroying those agencies. Follow to a third dot: convincing others through pressure/persuasion of the […]
I need to correct the math in the Dec. 8 letter, “Thankful every day that Trump defeated Clinton.” The author stated that 7 million Californians voted for Hillary. Actually, it was 8,753,788 to be exact. She carried 62 percent of our state. Trump did not win the popular vote as the letter writer stated. We […]
I was shocked and incensed to read in The Mercury News that the Trump administration has gone on a word-based witch hunt against vocabulary. The Trumpsters banned the use of the following words by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as other departments within the Health and Human Services Department: vulnerable, entitlement, […]
Now that the pervasiveness of men committing sexual harassment and assault is abundantly clear, all men must take ownership of this abusive behavior. Each of us must take personal responsibility to change our gender culture. Let’s: name it, report it, stop it. Step up men. Stephen E. Wright Dublin Submit your letter to the […]
A police official said the victim was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A police official said the shooting did not appear to be a random act.
Cardinal Bernard Law, the Boston archbishop who resigned in 2002 amid revelations that he had known for years of rampant child molestation by parish priests has died at 86.
The worry expressed by Supervisor David Canepa of Daly City last week is, get ready for it, killer robots.
Dublin teen Noah Mac returns to the show to perform with Bastille
A new poll found 57 percent of California voters strongly disapprove of President Trump's job performance, while only 30 percent approved.
Although the South Bay team of Katherine Tian and Swapnil Garg did not win the final round of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology earlier this month, they did walk away with a shared $25,000 in scholarship money. Katherine, a Cupertino resident, and Swapnil, a Sunnyvale resident, were named regional winners and finalists […]
Oakland Zoo is now home to two lemurs that couldn't stay in their old zoo because the male kept swimming in the moat to escape the enclosure.
At 1:48 p.m., dispatchers took a call from the 500 block of Scenic Avenue about two suspicious people inside a car. After officers arrived and found the car, a person in its backseat tried to jump to the front seat, ignoring an officer's orders not to start the car.