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Monterey woman arrested in Redwood City after driving a stolen tow truck, officers say
REDWOOD CITY Calif. (KION-TV)- Redwood City Police arrested a 35-year-old Monterey woman after leading police on a car chase while driving a stolen tow truck. Investigators said they received reports of a stolen tow truck at Enterprise Rent-A-Car on the 300 block of El Camino Real on Friday night. Officers said that the woman who The post Monterey woman arrested in Redwood City after driving a stolen tow truck, officers say appeared first on KION546.
Big San Jose manufacturing and industrial project pushes forward
SAN JOSE — A big manufacturing and industrial complex proposed for empty land in San Jose is taking a key step forward. The project, which could create hundreds of jobs, would be built at 865 Embedded Way, a site that consists of 10.2 acres of land, city planning documents show.
8 Bay Area projects receive state grants to move homeless residents off the streets
Eight Bay Area projects will share in $54.9 million in state funds to help unsheltered homeless people move from encampments into housing. The projects — located in the cities of Oakland and Santa Cruz, and the counties of Marin, Monterey and Santa Cruz — are among 20 statewide receiving almost $192 million in Encampment Resolution Funding grants, the California Interagency Council on Homelessness announced Thursday.
San Jose school enrichment program head arrested for alleged embezzlement
A former president of a San Jose elementary school enrichment program allegedly enriched herself by embezzling over $400,000 from the organization, police said Wednesday. Last July, investigators were tipped off to potential theft from the Schallenberger Home and School Association, which supports enrichment programs at Schallenberger Elementary School on Koch Lane. Financial crimes detectives began looking into the organization's numbers and allegedly discovered "suspicious" financial transactions that occurred between 2019 and 2023. Police identified then-SHSA President Tayesa Knight as the suspect and allege that she wrote about 45 fraudulent checks to herself, totaling over $400,000. According to...
Will TikTok leave San Jose if ban takes hold?
The U.S. TikTok ban is raising questions about the app’s future in San Jose, where its Chinese parent company, Bytedance, is expanding its office space. President Joe Biden signed the ban into law on Wednesday, claiming national security risks, which would prohibit the downloading of TikTok from app stores if Bytedance doesn’t sell the app within nine months. Since 2022, the company has subleased more than 658,000 square feet of office space from Yahoo on Coleman Avenue in North San Jose, near San Jose Mineta International Airport, and expanded its footprint in March into the Roku building next door.
Union City Police Enlist Public Help to Locate Missing Man Diagnosed with Schizophrenia
The Union City Police Department has issued a call to the public seeking assistance in locating Kehinde Yusuf, a 41-year-old man last observed at a MARTA bus stop early Tuesday morning, as reported by FOX5 Atlanta. Yusuf, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, has not been seen since April 23 and was reported missing by his mother after failing to return home.
Rideshare driver escapes attempted carjacking in Palo Alto
(KRON) — A rideshare driver narrowly escaped a carjacking Monday night following a dramatic chase, according to the Palo Alto Police Department. Palo Alto PD dispatch got a call at 12:47 a.m. from a man in his twenties reporting suspicious circumstances. Officers arrived on scene in the 100 block of University Avenue and met the […]
Bay Area ranks in US cities with worst air quality
(KRON) – Nearly four in ten Americans lived in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution in recent years, a new report ranking cities for their air quality by the American Lung Association found. Within that list, six out of ten of the most polluted cities in America were in California. Many might associate higher […]
Mountain View Firefighters Douse Early Morning Blaze, Prevent Spread to Adjacent Apartment Complex
In the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday, a fire broke out in the parking lot of a sprawling Mountain View apartment complex, sending residents into a late-night scramble to safety. The blaze erupted beneath a carport in the 500 block of W. Middlefield Road, targeting vehicles and threatening to spread to the nearby 402-unit building. According to the City of Mountain View's Facebook post, the alarm was raised at 1:50 a.m., and fire units were dispatched promptly.
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