San Jose News

They say money can't buy you love. But a new survey of more than two dozen cities, including San Jose, suggests a twist: the more you love your hometown, the stronger its economy is likely to be.

After serving eight months on combat duty in Baghdad, U.S. Army Sgt. Angela Hernandez has a hard time, she said, "with crowds and loud noises." But Thursday morning, she shed that fear, bolting toward a large ...

Conducted by internationally known composer, conductor and pianist Giancarlo Aquilanti, at 5 p.m. Sunday at St.

The Santa Clara County medical examiner's office is working to fingerprint and identify a man who was fatally hit by a vehicle in San Jose Thursday evening.

A day after a gunman fatally shot a young mother of two in her San Mateo home, friends remembered the woman as a kind-hearted beauty pageant regular who was well-known in the local Vietnamese community.

Loan Kim Nguyen was a 24-year-old mother of two, a former beauty contestant from the East Bay with a banker husband and ambitions of her own.

Jewelry for sale at Ace Loan office in downtown San Jose on Tuesday, November 18, 2008.

A 17-year-old boy who was being extradited to Wyoming to face burglary charges escaped custody early Tuesday morning at Mineta San Jose International Airport, San Jose police said.

Highways throughout the San Francisco Bay Area will be dotted with a $1 billion network of electric car recharging stations by 2012.

Two brothers and a woman have been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting of a woman on the city's Southwest Expressway last week.

Days after debating the San Jose Redevelopment Agency's latest budget proposal, a handful of City Council members requested millions more in funding for additional projects, ranging from $1.5 million to spruce ...

A train pulls into Diridon Station in San Jose Friday Nov. 21, 2008. With the passage of the two bond measures which will fund construction of the BART-to-San Jose extension and a high-speed rail line between ...

It's been 168 years since the premiere of August Bournonville's Spanish postcard ballet "The Toreador," but with delectable costumes and sets and loads of bright, effervescent charm, this once-lost ballet has ...

With noisy trains zooming by and people illegally crossing the tracks in the background, city and transportation officials announced this week that plans for a pedestrian crossing are still under way in a South ...

Members of the community listen to testimony during Tuesday night's city council meeting in San Jose, Nov.

A Palo Alto-based company has agreed to build a $1 billion network of electric car recharging stations throughout the San Francisco Bay area.

San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis speaks about the city's drunkeness violation law during Tuesday night's city council weekly meeting in San Jose, Nov.

"There isn't a clear definition," Councilwoman Nora Campos said. "The law is very vague and its important for us to have a law that's defined so it protects the police officer making the arrest, as well as the ...

Almost two weeks after voters cast their ballots, Measure B surpassed the crucial two thirds mark for the first time Monday.

The veterans who stood along San Jose's downtown sidewalks to watch the 90th annual Veterans Day Parade were absorbed almost invisibly into the crowd of parents and strollers and mini American flags.