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San Jose housing tower sued for poor upkeep, lack of heat, cooling
SAN JOSE — A troubled residential tower in downtown San Jose is mired in a new lawsuit that claims the building has experienced poor maintenance, financial woes, water damage, and a lack of heating and cooling in many units. Litigation and real estate woes have engulfed the western highrise...
San Jose business owner dealing with multiple break-ins at tea shop
A downtown San Jose tea shop says repeated crimes have them struggling to stay open. Lam Ha, the owner of Tea Villa says he’s had more than 20 break-ins since the pandemic started, including seven in the past year. He can’t afford to keep replacing the glass. “This...
San Jose family's food truck destroyed in fire
A San Jose family is trying to pick up the pieces after their food truck was destroyed in a fire last week. Constantino Lara and Viladina Necochea said they are at a loss – $95,000 is what they paid for their food truck, and they only had liability insurance.
San Jose High-Speed Chase Ends in Deputy's Crash and Suspect's Arrest on Multiple Charges
A routine traffic stop in San Jose turned into a multicar incident on Sunday, April 28, when a deputy from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office engaged in a car chase with a suspect that resulted in multiple injuries. According to the Sheriff's Office press release, the pursuit began after deputies attempted to pull over a gold Lexus sedan for speeding.
San Jose: Construction underway on tiny home shelter site at Sobrato property
Construction is underway on 75 tiny home shelters for homeless people at a South San Jose property owned by billionaire Silicon Valley developer John A. Sobrato. Sobrato agreed to lease the 2-acre lot, at Via del Oro and San Ignacio Avenue near Highway 85, to the city for $1 a year over the next decade. He proposed the idea after learning about the challenges officials have faced finding viable shelter sites as the city works to bring thousands of unhoused residents indoors.
LARPD replacing playgrounds at three parks
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Livermore Area Recreation and Park District has launched the first phase of its playground replacement program by installing new playgrounds at Jack Williams, Bill Clark and Ida Holm parks. LARPD officials said in an announcement last week that work began on April 22...
Congressional District 16 candidate Evan Low narrowly wins 2nd place as recount ends
The recount to break a historic tie in the race for the 16th Congressional District ended with Assemblymember Evan Low narrowly securing second place over Santa Clara Co. Supervisor Joe Simitian, moving Low to the November election. On Tuesday, the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters finished its recount. Low and Simitian gained 11 votes and seven votes, respectively. The reason the race wasn't called, though, was because the San Mateo County Registrar of Voters was still reviewing ballots that were being challenged — Its original machine recount maintained the same number of votes."Of those 28 challenged ballots, 12 related...
Fremont Storage Facility Inferno Destroys 53 Units, Officials Launch Probe, Red-Tag Condemned Building
Chaos erupted early Monday morning as flames engulfed a storage facility in Fremont, incinerating over fifty units and prompting an ongoing investigation into the cause of the inferno, according to officials. Fremont Fire Department units were dispatched to the blaze at Extra Space Storage located at 38491 Fremont Boulevard, where they were met with "heavy fire through the roof of a two-story building with multiple storage units involved," the department commented on social media, as reported by CBS San Francisco.
USPS Host Job Fair To Fill Hundreds Of Open Positions In The San Francisco Bay Area
The USPS, which needs to fill 600 vacant positions in the San Francisco Bay Area, hosted a Postal Service Career Fair Wednesday at its Menlo Park Post Office. Post Office Operations manager Riza Yumul told CBS News the staff shortage has made it difficult for the USPS employees here to keep up with their jobs’ demands. It needs to fill several positions, including mail handlers, clerks, and custodians. Yumul said it lost some employees during the pandemic but it also competing with the plethora of tech companies in the area. Safety concerns have been another challenge for hiring managers. Mail carriers are...
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