SAN JOSE — A Santa Clara County judge on Friday rejected a proposed settlement between prosecutors and convicted murderer Erik Chatman that would have given parole eligibility to the man who once ...

Joe Contreras was extradited from Oregon to face a murder charge in the beating and stabbing death of 84-year-old Alice ...

Investigators concluded that the driver in a November hit-and-run crash fled then falsely reported he was a carjacking victim ...

San José probes a December traffic incident that caused a pedestrian's death, the city's 39th traffic fatality in 2025.

Victims from separate December crashes in North San Jose died from their injuries a few days into the new year, authorities ...

The boyfriend of a San Jose woman found dead in her home nearly 30 years ago has been arrested, potentially bringing a close ...

San Jose Police solve a 1997 murder using forensic genealogy, arresting Joe Contreras for Alice Sharitz's death.

SAN JOSE — Family and friends of a beloved East San Jose elementary-school teacher brutally killed by her son six years ago excoriated the convicted murderer at his scheduled sentencing Monday, but ...