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Santa Clara County

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Antolin Garcia-Torres, Suspect in Sierra LaMar Slaying, Did Not Know Teen, Police Say (Video)

    (Update 11:15 a.m.): Police held a news conference this morning with reporters where they said the Sierra LaMar abduction was "purely random." Read the update after the jump. Santa Clara County authorities had a major break in the Sierra LaMar case last night when they arrested 21-year-old Antolin G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    Sierra LaMar Update: Cops Find Red Jetta Linked to Missing Teen

    Santa Clara County authorities might have a new break in the Sierra LaMar case. Police said they have located the red Jetta that was caught on surveillance video the morning the 15-year-old Morgan Hill teen went missing. Sgt. Jose Cardoza told media outlets that they have the car in custody, bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    Sierra LaMar Update: Red Jetta Could Be Linked to Missing Teen

    Santa Clara County authorities released a photograph of a 1990s-model red Jetta, saying a similar car could possibly be connected to Sierra LaMar, the 15-year-old Morgan Hill girl who has been missing for nearly two months. Sgt. Jose Cardoza told media outlets that the photo isn't a 100 percent matc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Sierra LaMar: Missing Teen's Twitter Account Hacked

    Santa Clara County authorities are now looking for the person who hacked into 15-year-old Sierra LaMar's Twitter account this week and left posts impersonating the missing teen. Sgt. Jose Cardoza confirmed to reporters Thursday that someone indeed hacked into LaMar's account two days ago and wr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Sierra LaMar: Family Launches Website for Missing Teen, Divers Search Under Water

    (Update 5:30 p.m.): Santa Clara County sheriffs have taken their search for Sierra LaMar to local waters. They sent divers into the Chesbro Reservoir this evening after a sonar picked up irregularities at the bottom of the waterway.(Original story 8:45 a.m.) It's now been a month since 15-year-old S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    ICE Does Immigration Sweeps, Arrests Thousands of "Criminal Aliens"

    ​Immigration authorities have arrested more than 3,100 convicted illegal immigrants and fugitives, including 200 in Northern California, during a massive, high-profile sweep nationwide over the last week. Some 1,900 ICE officers and agents throughout the United States conducted the largest six-day ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Binh Thai Luc, Suspect Mass Murder of Family, Dodged Deportation in 2006

    ​Binh Thai Luc, the man accused of brutally murdering an entire family last Friday, was reportedly ordered by a judge to leave the country six years ago and return to his native Vietnam after serving prison time for robbery and assault. But federal authorities told the Associated Press that L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Slain Family Identified; Machete Used in Murder

    ​Medical authorities have released the identities of the five people who were brutally murdered Friday inside their Ingleside home. According to a release from the San Francisco coroner, the victims were listed as the following:Hua Shun Lei, 65; his wife, Wan Yi Xu, 62; and their children Vincent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    Sierra Lamar: Sex Offenders Questioned in Case of Missing Teen, Vigil Held

    ​Santa Clara County authorities have started talking to registered sex offenders who live near the area where 15-year-old Sierra Lamar was last seen, hoping to find any clues that might lead them to her. Lamar was last seen headed to school, Friday morning, however, school officials called her mom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    Lupita Cortez, South Bay Mom, Accused of Dropping Her Toddler from Window

    ​A San Jose mother remains in police custody today after she allegedly tossed her 2-year-old son from a second-story window, creating a not-so-merry Christmas Day for her family.Lupita Cortez, 24, was arrested Sunday evening on suspicion of attempted murder, child abuse, and assault with a deadly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Henry Arnibal, South Bay Man, Allegedly Likes to Consume Meth and Bobcats -- In That Order

    Likes meat​We just told readers about Daniel Andreas San Diego, the hardcore vegan and accused animal rights terrorist who is wanted for bombing two companies. And then there's Henry Arnibal, who doesn't just like to eat any kind of animal meat -- he like to eat bobcats. Santa Clara County prosecu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Santa Cruz Collective to Stage a "Milk-In" for Raw Milk Rights

    Santa Cruz area raw-milk proponents are tired of the government getting up in their dairy. In response to "cease and desist" letters from the Santa Clara County DA's office sent to small, herd-share businesses that contract out milk from a goat or cow, the Santa Cruz Food Rights Coalition formed an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Hate Crimes Against Latinos Rise 47 Percent in California

    ​The year 2010 saw a marked uptick in hate crimes against Latinos statewide, according to newly released statistics from the California Attorney General's office.Attorney General Kamala Harris' annual report on hate crimes -- incidents in which victims are targeted because of their ethnicity, sexu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Majority of San Francisco's Illegal Immigrants Live in the Mission District

    Missionites: up to 15 percent of your neighbors are undocumented.​San Francisco's highest concentration of illegal immigrants lives in the city's Mission District -- a zip code of day laborers, black-market hot dog vendors, and fake document peddlers.The Public Policy Institute of California relea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    Feliciano Valencia-Santiago Accused of Murdering Maria Esther Orozco, Woman Found in Garbage Bag

    Feliciano Valencia-Santiago ​SF Weekly told readers about the disturbing and gruesome discovery a Sunnyvale man made in his front yard last Sunday: A garbage bag filled with bloody body parts. Police quickly identified the victim as Maria Esther Orozco, and now they've identified the suspected kil ... More >>

  • News

    March 2, 2011

    California Family Courts Helping Pedophiles, Batterers Get Child Custody

    Feliciano Valencia-Santiago ​SF Weekly told readers about the disturbing and gruesome discovery a Sunnyvale man made in his front yard last Sunday: A garbage bag filled with bloody body parts. Police quickly identified the victim as Maria Esther Orozco, and now they've identified the suspected kil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Caltrain Conductor Accused of Soliciting Sexual Favors From Minor

    Conductor Busted​Ricardo Arias Cano, a conductor who worked on Caltrain, was arrested recently on suspicion of propositioning two female passengers for sex, one who was a minor. The 60-year-old South San Francisco man has since been banned from Caltrain property. According to Steve Fein, who works ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Marijuana Roundup: The Year In Pot

    ​How was your 2010? For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges -- and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There's still time y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Facebook, Twitter, Texting Barred from Mayoral Succession Process

    Come to think of it, a Sorting Hat would be a very easy way to settle on the next mayor​Earlier this year, we reported that several members of the Board of Supervisors are Facebooking up a storm during meetings. Eric Mar is even known as "Supervisor Facebook." No one seemed to give a damn. The tim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    Sara Cole, Suburban Mother of Four, Arrested for Sex With Minor

    Sara Cole and her children. The mother of four is accused of having sex with a minor.​A suburban mother of four towheaded boys has been arrested on charges of unlawful sex with a minor. Sara Cole, 47, of Los Gatos, was yesterday booked into Santa Clara County jail on three counts after a two-month ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    Happy Meal Ban on San Francisco's Plate Today

    Will we hear from them during public comment? How about the Fry Guys?​Supervisor Eric Mar's proposal to take the toys away from Happy Meal-like menu items that don't meet city-imposed nutrition standards ignited an Internet firestorm. Today we'll see if it can do the same in the flesh. The "Health ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    Accused Sex Offenders Arrested at San Francisco Airport

    ​U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing it nabbed two alleged sex offenders at San Francisco Airport after the American citizens' separate flights from the Philippines touched down.  The first man was arrested last Monday on a warrant out of Washington State. The second man was book ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Happy Meals May Be Banned By San Francisco

    You guys -- out of this city! ​The moment your humble narrator heard that legislation was introduced at yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting aiming at regulating how nutritious a meal must be for a restaurant to be permitted to hand out a toy, I thought "This must be Eric Mar's doing." Yup.&nb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Google Age Discrimination Suit by 'Fuddy-Duddy' Brian Reid Moves Forward

    Brian Reid's Google stock options would have been worth between $45 million and $60 million​Brian Reid is revered in the tech industry for helping to craft the first firewall, the AltaVista search engine, and the the alt.* hierarchy of newsgroups in Usenet. But he is 60 years old -- twice the age ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Alleged Serial Groper Curtis Campbell Had Very Good Excuse

    It turns out at least four women groped along the Saratoga Creek Trail were apparently dealing with a really sweet man ... with issues​A rarity has emerged from a San Jose investigation: A story about an alleged serial groper who terrorized women jogging along a trail for months -- that's upliftin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Database Reveals Who's Earning $12.2 Billion in Bay Area Public Employee Salaries

    ​A database of more than 200,000 Bay Area public employees charts just who's earning $12.2 billion in public salaries. (It's a big database, so it takes a while to load up).  Coming tops on the Bay Area News Group-compiled cavalcade of information: Nancy Farber, chief administrator of Washing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    Santa Clara County Allows Voter Registration Via Electronic Signatures

    ​Santa Clara County has taken a historic step by allowing residents to register to vote electronically, the San Jose Mercury News reports.The new procedure allows people to register using touch-screen devices such as iPhones and iPads, and is the result of a proposal by the Silicon Valley firm Ver ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    San Franciscans Stink at Returning Census Forms

    There's San Francisco, on the far left...​Was it the brightest thing for the government to stack its deadlines so U.S. Census Deadline Day is just 24 hours after Tax Day? Perhaps not. But that question isn't on the census, which is due today. If census return rates had been a horse race, your humb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    Potential Savior of South Bay Baseball May Be Politically Conflicted

    Tick, tick, tick...As we noted earlier this week, hope springs eternal on Opening Day -- but the Oakland A's tenure in the East Bay may not be nearly as perpetual. For those of you who were unaware that Oakland owner Lew Wolff and the South Bay -- a region that craves Major League sports franchises ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    Double-Bagged: Sagging Economy Drives Politicos Away From Plastic Bag Fees Toward Simplistic Bans -- Or, More Likely, Nothing

    Joe EskenaziIt's not often that we'll deign to cover the affairs of the Santa Clara County Recycling & Waste Reduction Commission, but today's the day. In a few hours, the commission will discuss whether to move forward on a bold and environmentally sound plan to impose a 25-cent fee on all bags ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    The City of Industry 49ers? Don't Laugh -- The Team has Done Stranger Things (See: Smith, Alex)

    Both of these teams have been bandied about as potential L.A. franchisesMost San Franciscans know City of Industry as the oddly named Los Angeles suburb where we send the monthly checks for our Capital One cards. But, in the near future, we may be sending them something else -- the 49ers. If anyone ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    Giant, Anthropomorphic Penises All the Rage in San Francisco These Days

    San Francisco Department of Public HealthThe Penismobile is a hybrid? We were sure it'd be a Jaguar XKEYou don't always say this about penises, but in San Francisco, they come in threes. First there was the walking, advice-dispensing dong featured in a locally produced health film/soap opera.Then th ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 7, 2009

    Baggage

    The city's politicos made the enviros happy by banning plastic bags, but left us with more pollution and cost

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2008

    California Cities and Same-Sex Couples Join SF's Prop. 8 Challenge

    By Lauren SmileyThe San Francisco city attorney filed an amended petition (note: PDF file) challenging the constitutionality of Prop. 8 in the state Supreme Court Wednesday, adding seven same-sex married couples and 11 more cities and counties as parties. The amended filing also argues that Prop. 8 ... More >>

  • News

    November 19, 2008

    SF Weekly Letters

    By Lauren SmileyThe San Francisco city attorney filed an amended petition (note: PDF file) challenging the constitutionality of Prop. 8 in the state Supreme Court Wednesday, adding seven same-sex married couples and 11 more cities and counties as parties. The amended filing also argues that Prop. 8 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2008

    Bay Area Cycling Deaths Increase

    By Lauren SmileyThe San Francisco city attorney filed an amended petition (note: PDF file) challenging the constitutionality of Prop. 8 in the state Supreme Court Wednesday, adding seven same-sex married couples and 11 more cities and counties as parties. The amended filing also argues that Prop. 8 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2007

    SFWeekly's Noon (or so) Unusual News Roundup -- Sex, AIDS, Gunfire, and Why Barry Bonds Matters

    By Lauren SmileyThe San Francisco city attorney filed an amended petition (note: PDF file) challenging the constitutionality of Prop. 8 in the state Supreme Court Wednesday, adding seven same-sex married couples and 11 more cities and counties as parties. The amended filing also argues that Prop. 8 ... More >>

  • News

    April 20, 2005

    Finger Food 2.0

    Who's to blame for that finger in the Wendy's chili? Are you Hannibal Lecter? Take quiz, find out.

  • Summer Guide

    June 23, 2004

    Festivals and Fairs

    Who's to blame for that finger in the Wendy's chili? Are you Hannibal Lecter? Take quiz, find out.

  • Music

    July 30, 2003

    House of Tudor

    Do the funky robot with Lost Sounds, then short-circuit your tear ducts with Portugal's fado diva Mariza

  • News

    June 26, 2002

    Yippee Ki Yi Gay

    The rodeo looked a lot like any other -- until an event called "Steer Decorating"

  • News

    September 19, 2001

    Dog Bites

    Lawmaker for a Day; Yes, It's All About You

  • News

    December 6, 2000

    Dog Bites

    Runoff election; Fangxaminer Watch monitors amusing errors

  • News

    October 11, 2000

    Dog Bites

    Take Out the Trash; Trouble in the 408?; Trouble in the 650; Even Fuzzier Math

  • News

    November 24, 1999

    Benign Neglect

    There's a pot of money available to investigate real estate fraud, but Terence Hallinan isn't using it

  • News

    February 10, 1999

    Letters

    There's a pot of money available to investigate real estate fraud, but Terence Hallinan isn't using it

  • News

    February 3, 1999

    Madam I Am

    Raeshel Keavy ran one of the city's most sophisticated and profitable prostitution rings. She was safe until she strayed from San Francisco.

  • News

    September 10, 1997

    The Merger's Tangled Web

    Raeshel Keavy ran one of the city's most sophisticated and profitable prostitution rings. She was safe until she strayed from San Francisco.

  • News

    June 14, 1995

    Cops Watching Cops

    Police watchdog agency the Office of Citizen Complaints braces for its fifth lame director

  • News

    April 26, 1995

    The Dating Blame

    The Bay Area's Together Dating Services franchise regroups in the face of lawsuits and investigations

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