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  • Bicyclist hospitalized after being hit by VTA train in San Jose

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    A bicyclist was taken to the hospital after being struck by a VTA train in San Jose Friday night, the fire department said.

    The fire department said they responded to a report of a bicyclist that was struck by a VTA train in the area of Southwest Expressway and Fruitdale Avenue just before 8:30 p.m.

    VTA officials said the person was taken to the hospital. They add they were “safely single-tracking trains through the area and will be resuming normal service shortly.”

    The bicyclist’s status is unknown at this time.

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  • Man infamous for 2016 South Bay jail escape gets significantly reduced prison term after appeal

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    SAN JOSE — A man who gained infamy nearly a decade ago when he escaped a San Jose jail while awaiting his robbery trial saw his initial 49-year prison term cut by more than half Thursday, following a second successful appeal and a plea to a Santa Clara County judge to more heavily factor his dramatic personal transformation and his troubled childhood.

    Laron Campbell poses for a Nov. 2024 photo, included in a Santa Clara County court filing, that was taken after he earned his high school diploma in a state prison facility in Soledad while serving a robbery sentence. On Nov. 13, 2025, after a second resentencing, Campbell’s prison term was reduced to 18 years and 8 months, from an initial 2016 sentence of 49 years. (Laron Campbell via Santa Clara County Superior Court) 

    Laron Campbell, 35, appeared via video feed in a San Jose courtroom before Judge Daniel Nishigaya, with Campbell’s fiancée and numerous supporters present both in person and also on video. The judge initially sentenced Campbell to 49 years in prison, then in 2023 reduced it to 30 years after Campbell successfully appealed.

    Campbell benefited from legislation in the intervening years, aimed at reducing the state’s prison population, that gave judges more sentencing discretion. On Thursday, during a second resentencing that was ordered by the 6th District Court of Appeal earlier this year, Nishigaya further reduced Campbell’s sentence to 18 years and 8 months.

    That decrease came largely from the judge, at the urging of the appellate court, removing a firearm enhancement that added 10 years to his term. Nishigaya also suspended a 4-year term after deciding that Campbell’s conviction for unplugging and disabling a victim’s phone during a 2014 home invasion robbery was part of the main offense and not a separate crime.

    While explaining his decision, Nishigaya said Campbell’s determination to reform himself “is rare, relatively unique, and speaks well for what Mr. Campbell has done for himself and for those around him subsequent to his convictions and original sentencing in these matters.”

    Campbell was convicted in 2016 of committing armed home-invasion robberies in Fremont and Cupertino in 2014, and of an attempted burglary in 2016, records show. He had two prior convictions, for theft in 2008 and burglary in 2010, for which he served about three years in prison.

    While awaiting trial for the 2016 cases, in November of that year, Campbell and another man broke out of their holding cells in Main Jail South in San Jose and were fugitives for about a week. Campbell was found at his sister’s home in Antioch and later pleaded no contest to the escape.

    At his 2023 resentencing, Campbell described an extensive rehabilitation journey that encompassed him taking responsibility for his crimes, obtaining his high school diploma and engrossing himself in education, and becoming a model prisoner who compelled his correctional officers to vouch for him.

    Campbell continued that campaign in an array of writings and declarations filed in court prior to Thursday’s hearing, including a post-release plan that detailed immediate transition support from the civil-rights group Silicon Valley De-Bug, several job prospects and a relocation to New York with his fiancée and her family, as proof that he will immediately enter a supportive environment.

    “Though I am not perfect … my mission is to continue working through my past traumas, reflect on my harmful actions and belief system, and continually educate myself so that when the time does come for me to truly get a second chance at life, I will be ready mentally, physically and spiritually,” Campbell wrote in a letter filed with the court.

    The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office opposed reducing Campbell’s sentence, arguing the court was already aware of Campbell’s rehabilitation at his 2023 resentencing, and urged Nishigaya to preserve the 30-year term and firearm enhancement. Deputy District Attorney Anne Seery also argued Campbell had not proven that his childhood trauma was substantive enough to entitle him to further reductions.

    On Thursday, Seery gave her own impassioned plea to Nishigaya to consider Campbell’s victims in his decision, calling to mind their indelible memories of waking up to a man pointing a gun at their faces and threatening retribution if they called police. She also recalled how she had to tell the victims Campbell escaped from jail.

    “That is public safety, that is fear,” Seery said in court. “Years have gone by, but that doesn’t make that less frightening … That doesn’t make it OK because he’s now said sorry. That fear needs to be acknowledged and punished.”

    She also referenced a 2024 criminal charge in Monterey County, where Campbell was being held in prison in Soledad, after he was found with marijuana in his cell. Campbell apologized for and took responsibility for that violation, and his attorney noted that Campbell agreed to drug counseling and other measures that ended with the charge being reduced to a misdemeanor.

    In its January resentencing order, the appellate court referenced state legislation in 2021 that should have mitigated the firearm enhancement, on the grounds that Campbell’s childhood trauma was a relevant background factor in his crimes, and that he was 25 years old or younger at the time.

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  • Vehicle hits and kills man in San Jose

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    A vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in San Jose’s West San Carlos neighborhood early Friday morning, according to police.

    Police said a man was hit by a vehicle around 1:40 a.m. in the 600 block of West San Carlos Street. The man was sent to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

    The driver of the involved vehicle stayed at the scene and cooperated with officers, police said.

    The collision shut down West San Carlos Street in both directions from McEvoy Street to Royal Avenue. Motorists were advised to avoid the area and use alternate routes until further notice.

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  • Copper wire stolen from San Jose VTA station

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    Authorities arrested a San Jose man suspected of cutting away $30,000 worth of copper wire from a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light-rail station last week.

    A resident of an apartment near the Ohlone-Chynoweth station in San Jose called authorities after spotting the suspect allegedly stealing wire about 1 a.m. on Nov. 4, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.

    Deputies found the suspect reportedly stripping sheathing from nearly 60 feet of freshly cut copper wire, valued at almost $30,000, the Sheriff’s Office said.

    The suspect, 38-year-old Gregory Ortega, was on probation for burglary, authorities said.

    He was arrested and booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail on suspicion of grand theft, possession of stolen property, vandalism, and probation violation.

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  • Five arrested in connection with San Jose home burglary

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    SAN JOSE — A Halloween morning burglary at a West San Jose home ended in the arrest of five people, police said.

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  • Uncertainty grows in San Jose as SNAP benefits cutoff continues

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    The line was long at Lighthouse Food Rescue and Distribution in San Jose. The organization says they receive many phone calls daily from people who are asking about how and where they can get food.

    The nonprofit provides food five days a week and recently has seen a rise in the number of people lining up.

     “Since everything going on with the SNAP benefits, we’ve seen a huge surge and just lines down the block,” said Jessica Pangelina, secretary of the Lighthouse Food Rescue & Distribution.

    More and more phone calls have also been coming in.

    “A lot of families, people calling with families with kids, just worried about getting here on time, because people do start lining up pretty early,” Pangelina said.

    People with SNAP benefits still haven’t received their payments for November. The Trump administration had agreed to partially fund the program this month by using contingency funds – but said that it could take weeks.

    Then a federal judge Thursday ordered the Trump administration to deliver SNAP payments in full to states by Friday. The administration later filed a notice saying they intend to appeal against the ruling.

    While taking questions during a dinner with leaders of central Asian countries, President Trump deferred to Vice President JD Vance when asked about Thursday court’s ruling.

    “In the midst of a shutdown, we can’t have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation,” Vance said.

    This lapse in SNAP benefits is already having impacts on families whose electronic benefits cards were supposed to be reloaded the first week of this month.

    Tony and Alba’s Pizza and Pasta are one of the restaurants that have started offering free kids meals and discounts for parents with snap cards at the end of October.

    They’ve served more than 200 meals to families with SNAP cards in the last two weeks.

    “I had one parent, she was here yesterday and then she came back today to get a meal for her son, she said I don’t have any money, I said don’t worry, this is what we will help take care of, what would you like,” said Diana Vallorz, co-owner of Tony and Alba’s Pizza and Pasta.

    But they often think about where they’ll get their next meal after they leave.

    “They’re getting a meal from us, and right now they don’t have any money so what do they do tomorrow, what do they do this weekend where they don’t get a breakfast and a lunch from school, that’s the hardest part for us,” said Albert Vallorz, co-owner of Tony and Alba’s Pizza and Pasta.

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  • Hours-long armed standoff at San Jose veterans home ends in arrest, deputies say

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    Authorities in the South Bay said they arrested a man who was allegedly armed following an hours-long standoff at a home for veterans that began Wednesday night.

    According to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to the Veterans Housing Facility on Kirk Avenue in unincorporated San Jose shortly after 9 p.m.

    Deputies said the incident began with a verbal argument, which escalated to a resident pointing a gun at a staff member before he barricaded himself inside a room. The staff member was able to escape and was not injured.

    Members of the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team and Crisis Negotiation Team responded and spent several hours using de-escalation techniques. After about five hours, the standoff ended when deputies deployed less-lethal projectiles, which led the man to comply.

    The man, identified as 68-year-old Alexander Knapp, was taken into custody without further incident. Knapp was taken to a local hospital to be treated for minor injuries.

    “We commend the professionalism, patience, and de-escalation tactics demonstrated by Sheriff’s Office personnel, as well as the cooperation of facility staff and nearby neighbors,” deputies said in a statement. “We’re grateful the situation was resolved safely.”

    After being medically cleared, deputies said Knapp will be booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, brandishing a firearm and resisting arrest.

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  • California layoff plans hit 158,700 workers, No. 2 in US

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    California-centric layoff plans have hit 158,700 workers so far this year, the second-largest employment cuts nationwide.

    The job reports we usually follow are on hold during the federal government’s shutdown. So, my spreadsheet switched to a long-running tally of layoff news from major corporations, compiled by workplace consultants at Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

    Their latest report covered layoffs announcements by big companies through October in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This study tracks the layoff location based on either the corporate headquarters or the actual sites of the cuts, if mentioned in the layoff news release.

    California-related layoff plans in the first 10 months of 2025 account for 14% of the 1.1 million layoffs announced across the U.S. Challenger expects this year to be the nation’s worst for this layoff yardstick since the Great Recession era, minus 2020’s pandemic-scarred economy.

    Let’s put that 14% share in context. California is the nation’s largest economy. It has 18 million workers, more than any other state, and 11% of the nation’s 159 million jobs.

    Additionally, Golden State businesses comprise 11% of the 500 companies that comprise the high-profile S&P 500 stock index. And 13% of the INC. 5000 ranking of America’s fastest-growing companies hail from California.

    The national layoff hotspot was Washington, D.C., with 303,800. After California came New York, with 81,701, followed by Georgia with 78,049, and Washington state with 77,700.

    As for California’s economic rivals, Texas ranked seventh with 46,400 planned cuts, and Florida ranked ninth with 22,800 planned cuts.

    Who’s cutting

    A handful of industries dominate the list of layoff plans.

    Start with massive government job cuts, primarily in the District of Columbia, as the Trump administration aggressively shrinks the federal payroll.

    Nationwide, Challenger reported that announced layoff plans for all government workers totaled 307,600 in the first 10 months of 2025 – the largest cut in any industry and up 269,900, or 715%, in the past year.

    The next three shrinking industries have deep ties to California.

    Technology had 141,200 cuts announced nationwide, up 20,700 or 17%. Warehousing had 90,400, up 71,500 or 378%. And retail had 88,700 cuts, up 52,500 or 145%.

    Growing cuts

    California-centric layoffs rose by 22,100 in a year from the first 10 months of 2024. That’s the fifth biggest jump and 5% of the nationwide increase of 665,000.

    The largest increase was in D.C., at 269,000, followed by Georgia, with an increase of 60,200, and New Jersey, at 52,700. Florida was No. 8, up 9,800.

    Texas had the largest decline, down 20,600, followed by Rhode Island, down 10,600, and Nevada, down 8,400.

    The California bump looks less egregious on a percentage-point basis, ranking No. 20 with a 16% increase. Nationwide, these cuts grew by 65%.

    The biggest percentage jumps were in Alaska, at 2,346% – yes, it grew almost 25-fold – followed by Maine, up 1,446%, and D.C., up 773%. Florida was No. 12 at 76%.

    The largest dips were in Wyoming, down 99%, followed by Rhode Island, down 90%, and Nevada, down 76%. Texas was No. 34, off 31%.

    Job chill

    The layoffs are further proof of a cooling economy.

    Challenger only tracks layoff plans of big companies. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics follows actual layoffs and discharges, which include firings, at companies of all sizes.

    Through July, the latest numbers available, the BLS reported that 1.3 million Californians had been laid off or discharged, representing a 69,000 increase – a 6% jump – compared with the first seven months of 2024.

    Nationwide, these job cuts totaled 11.4 million in the same timeframe, a 4% increase of 445,000 in a year.

    And the shaky employment picture is why the Federal Reserve has shifted its focus from cooling problematic inflation to supporting the job market. The central bank made two cuts in the past two months in the interest rates it controls.

    Slow hiring

    Challenger also tracks hiring announcements on a national basis. It’s not pretty.

    So far in 2025, big companies have announced plans to hire 488,100, which is 35% lower than 2024 and down 53% from the median hires of the previous nine years.

    And seasonal hiring plans have been modest at many companies that supply the holiday spirit, from retailers to shippers. Expected year-end staffing increases are down 59% in a year.

    Merchants are seeing this wobbly job market help to depress consumer confidence. The Conference Board’s optimism indicators have decreased by 18% statewide and by 8% nationwide over the past year.

    Jonathan Lansner is the business columnist for the Southern California News Group. He can be reached at jlansner@scng.com

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  • San Jose announces AI education program for the public

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    San Jose once again is touting its Silicon Valley prominence with the city offering access to artificial intelligence courses and tools to all residents.

    At the GovAI Coalition Summit that began Wednesday in San Jose, Mayor Matt Mahan announced AI for All, a first-of-its-kind collaborative program featuring tech giants Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as the Bay Area Council.

    “The AI revolution is here — and there’s no better place to be a part of it than San Jose,” Mahan said in a news release for the summit. “This first-in-the-nation initiative makes sure everyone from students to seniors can seize the opportunities of this new era and be prepared for the pitfalls. The coming years will determine if AI’s proliferation will drive inequality or opportunity, and we’re not waiting to find out — we’re shaping it for the collective good of humanity.”

    AI for All will consist of a single city portal with free courses, training paths and certifications from leading AI companies, according to the release. The content will come in multiple languages and accessible to businesses, in schools and at home.

    It will also be available to residents without reliable internet access at local libraries and community centers, the city said.

    A committee made up of representatives from the city, Bay Area Council, the participating companies and community partners will oversee the program’s implementation and accessibility, the city said.

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  • Pedestrian dies after being hit near downtown San Jose

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    A pedestrian died Monday after being hit by a vehicle south of downtown San Jose, according to police.

    The collision happened at about 5:15 p.m. in the area of South First and Martha streets, police said. The pedestrian was rushed to a local hospital but did not survive.

    Police asked the public to avoid the area.

    An investigation is ongoing.

    Further information wasn’t immediately available.

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  • Delays hamper BART riders after maintenance and police activity

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    OAKLAND — BART passengers were experiencing delays Sunday due to maintenance operations and police activity that hampered trips on sections of the Bay Area transit system.

    In one occurrence, a 10-minute delay had occurred Sunday morning at the Coliseum station in Oakland in the direction of Daly City due to police activity. It wasn’t disclosed which law enforcement agency was involved. By 9:30 a.m., that delay had ended.

    BART also reported Sunday morning that a 10-minute delay was underway on the San Francisco line in the direction of Berryessa in San Jose, Antioch, and Millbrae due to overnight track maintenance. By 10 a.m., that advisory had ended.

    In recent months, BART passengers have suffered through mammoth delays and systemwide shutdowns that snarled the regional transit system.

    In May, a fire near the San Leandro station disrupted service on the lines to the Berryessa (San Jose), Dublin and Lake Merritt (Oakland) stations.

    In September, the entire BART system shut down due to a computer failure that halted service through the Transbay Tube for several hours.

    In October, an equipment problem on the track in the Transbay Tube snarled trips through the underwater connection between Oakland and San Francisco for three hours during the morning commute.

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  • Eget, Scudero lead San Jose State to 45-38 win over Hawaii in Tomey Legacy Game

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    SAN JOSE – San Jose State defeated Hawaii 45-38 Saturday night behind a career-high 215 receiving yards and two touchdowns from wide receiver Danny Scudero, marking the fifth consecutive Spartans victory in the Dick Tomey Legacy Game.

    Despite trailing 31-14 at halftime, the Rainbow Warriors (6-3) rallied to move within one score with 1:16 left in the game. But their last-ditch onside kick rolled out of bounds and sealed a victory for the Spartans (3-5).

    Both of Scudero’s touchdowns came in very opportune moments.

    The two best passing offenses in the Mountain West were on display as Hawaii started the second half with a 8-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Micah Alejado to running back Landon Sims, making it 31-21 SJSU in the third quarter.

    The following drive, Spartans quarterback Walker Eget hit Scudero for a 62-yard touchdown pass.

    Alejado, though, hit wide receiver Jackson Harris for a 68-yard touchdown to cut SJSU’s lead to 21-14 with 4:07 left in the second quarter.

    Then the following drive, Eget hit Scudero for a 50-yard touchdown to pad the Spartans’ lead to 28-14.

    Then a sack by SJSU linebacker Jordan Pollard sack stifled a Hawaii drive, which led to a Spartans 24-yard field goal by Matthias Brown, securing a three-possession lead at 31-14.

    Eget finished the game 20-for-40 for 458 yards and the two TD passes to Scudero. SJSU wide receivers, Scudero, Leland Smith (113) and Kyri Shoels (109) all went over 100 yards for the second time this season.

    Defensively, Pollard finished with eight tackles, with two tackles for loss, including the sack.

    Hawaii’s Alejado finished the game 31-for-46 for 367 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions.

    Despite trailing 31-14 at halftime, Hawaii made things uneasy in the fourth quarter, closing within 38-35 after a 20-yard touchdown pass from Alejado to Pofele Ashlock Harris with 9:32  left in the fourth quarter.

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  • Macklin Celebrini explains why he likes the Sharks’ new forechecking style

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    SAN JOSE – The day after the Sharks were blown out by the Utah Mammoth last month, coach Ryan Warsofsky said his team – desperate to get off to a fast start — was too focused on the result of winning, and not enough on the details of how to make it happen.

    “So we’ve got to worry about – and every coach says it — the process, and the way we have to work and the way we have to play,” Warsofsky said Oct. 18, “and (victories) will come with that.”

    Now the Sharks have a blueprint for what makes them successful.

    Since that 6-3 loss to the Mammoth on Oct. 17 in Salt Lake City, the Sharks have switched from a 1-1-3 alignment to a much faster, more aggressive 2-1-2 forechecking style. The move has allowed the Sharks to utilize their speed and create a few more high-danger scoring chances, while preventing fewer grade-A opportunities for opposing teams at the other end.

    With that has come what everyone in teal wanted from the start — more wins. Since a 0-4-2 start, the Sharks,“You ask any player, they don’t like being under pressure.

    The Sharks are still sporting a modest 3-6-2 record, but the eight points they have after 11 games actually represent their best start to a season since the 2021-22 season, when they began 6-4-1.

    “I think our strength is we’re young and we’ve got some guys with some juice in this room,” Sharks defenseman Mario Ferraro said. “Using our skating and being as aggressive as possible, what we’ve been doing — obviously being smart while we’re doing it — but our aggressive play has really helped us so far.

    “Since we’ve been playing better with that, we haven’t changed a thing.”

    In beating the New Jersey Devils 5-2 on Thursday, forwards Alexander Wennberg and Philipp Kurashev each had a goal and an assist, and goalie Alex Nedeljkovic made 29 saves in his best performance of the season.

    Macklin Celebrini assisted on Will Smith’s second-period goal that gave the Sharks a 4-1 lead and now has five goals and seven assists in a career-long six-game point streak, as the Sharks earned their first win on home ice this season.

    Celebrini now had 17 points in 11 games, becoming just the fifth teenager in the past 15 years to record 17 or more points in a single calendar month. The others were Connor McDavid in February and November 2016, Clayton Keller in March 2018, Andrei Svechnikov in November 2019, and Connor Bedard in March 2024.

    That Celebrini’s hot streak began soon after the Sharks made the change to a less conservative forechecking style probably isn’t a complete coincidence.

    “I think it helps just not sitting back as much, not giving (teams) free entry,” Celebrini said. “Putting a little bit more pressure, turning over more pucks, I think it helps us just get possession.

    “You ask any player, they don’t like being under pressure. So I think the more pace and pressure we can put on the other team’s players or defensemen, it helps us get more possession time.”

    Since a 3-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Oct. 18, a game they controlled for the final two periods, the Sharks have gone 3-3-0, with the three losses by a combined four goals.

    “I think you can see in these last couple of games, we’ve come out pretty strong, come out really fast, gotten the first goal,” said Sharks goalie Alex Nedeljkovic, who made 29 saves Thursday. “We’re in games. There haven’t been a lot of games this year, maybe like one or two, where we didn’t really have it that night, and we didn’t really have a shot.”

    The Sharks’ next few games will offer a stiff test. After Saturday’s game against the Central Division-leading Avalanche, the Sharks face the Atlantic Division-leading Detroit Red Wings on Sunday. That’s followed by games against the improved Seattle Kraken, the Winnipeg Jets, last season’s Presidents’ Trophy winners, and the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers.

    “We’ve definitely taken steps in that process, of what it looks like to win, and what it feels like, what it takes, and how hard you have to work, the details you need to play with,” Warsofsky said. “We still have a ways to go, but our group is definitely taking the teaching and the coaching of what it takes, and our guys are growing it with that as we go.”

    DICKINSON UPDATE

    Sam Dickinson was still with the Sharks as of Friday afternoon, as the team didn’t make any announcement about whether they would keep the rookie defenseman on the NHL roster to the Ontario Hockey League. Dickinson played his ninth game of the season on Thursday and had 14:23 in ice time, all at even strength, as he played on the Sharks’ third defense pair with Shakir Mukhamadullin.

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  • Letters: San Jose animal shelter still turning deaf ear to community

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    San Jose continues to fail to improve animal shelter services to the community.

    A scathing city audit of one year ago has failed to deliver measurable results. The city still fails to provide low-cost public spay and neuter, nor is outreach to rescue groups or trap-neuter-return a priority. The San Jose animal welfare community continues to be ignored.

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  • Deputies fatally shoot armed man during San Jose traffic stop

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    SAN JOSE – Deputies with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed a man armed with a knife during a traffic stop Monday evening in San Jose, police said.

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  • 1 dead, 1 critically hurt in 3-car crash in San Jose neighborhood

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    A crash involving three vehicles left one person dead and another critically injured in a San Jose neighborhood over the weekend, authorities said.

    The crash happened on Saturday at about 2:35 p.m. on Foxworthy Avenue west of Jarvis Avenue in the southern part of the city’s Willow Glen neighborhood north of Hillsdale Avenue. The San Jose Police Department said in a press release Monday that a man driving a white 2018 GMC Denali was headed east on Foxworthy, a two-lane road divided by a double yellow line, and was approaching Jarvis when he attempted to pass a green 2018 Subaru Forrester on the right. 

    While passing, the GMC collided with the Forrester, causing the GMC to travel into the opposite lane of traffic and crash head-on with a blue 2012 Honda CR-V that was heading east on Foxworthy, police said. The woman who was driving the Honda was pronounced dead at the scene, while the man driving the GMC suffered life-threatening injuries and was listed in critical condition, police said.

    The woman driving the Subaru was not hurt.

    The identity of the Honda driver will be released by the Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner after notifying her family. The crash was San Jose’s 31st fatal collision and the 31st traffic death of 2025.

    Police asked anyone with information about the crash to contact Detective DelliCarpini #4103 of the Police Department’s traffic investigations unit at 4103@sanjoseca.gov or 408-277-4654.

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  • 1 dead, another hospitalized in crash on San Jose’s Foxworthy Avenue

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    One driver died and another was hospitalized after a crash on Foxworthy Avenue in San Jose on Saturday afternoon, police said. 

    The collision happened around 2:30 p.m. near Foxworthy Avenue and Jarvis Avenue. 

    Police said the only occupants in the two vehicles were the drivers. One died at the scene and the other was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. 

    Foxworthy Avenue from Meridian Avenue to Jarvis Avenue is expected to be closed for a significant amount of time. 

    It’s unknown what led up to the crash.

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  • San Jose business helps families that might stop getting SNAP benefits

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    A family business in San Jose is offering free meals to kids whose families use SNAP benefits.

    The state says around 5.5 million Californians use SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families.

    The owners of Tony & Alba’s Pizza & Pasta in San Jose are preparing to step up for families.

    “We had been talking about it for a couple of weeks now, how are these kids going to eat, what we can do,” said Albert Vallorz, co-owner Tony & Alba’s Pizza & Pasta.

    Diana and Albert Vallorz announced on social media that kids whose families have SNAP cards will be able get free kids meals, and parents who want to eat with them there will get a discount.

    “Without these SNAP benefits, there are going to be a lot of kids who are going to have to do with less,” said Diana, co-owner Tony & Alba’s Pizza & Pasta.

    The need for food assistance is expected to grow as millions prepare to lose SNAP benefits come Nov. 1. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program serves nearly 42 million people each month in the US, allocating money to states on a monthly basis.

    But if the government shutdown continues, the department of agriculture warned there would not be enough funding to pay full SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, in November.

    California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined other state attorneys general in writing a letter to the department of agriculture demanding answers.

    In a statement, Bonta said in part, “SNAP benefits should never be an afterthought – protecting the families who rely on these benefits to keep food on the table must be a priority.”

    Without snap benefits, food banks are expecting to help out more people. This week Governor Gavin Newsom said he was deploying the California National Guard to assist food banks. The governor’s office sent out these images of troops already helping at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank Friday.

    In the Bay Area, Second Harvest says they need donations, not necessarily more volunteers.

    And they worry the National Guard showing up could create more fear in the community.

    “We also anticipate seeing an increase in need and we may need more volunteers out at our distribution sites but we’re also in this moment where having folks in uniform might create some fear at our sites so that is why we don’t envision utilizing them at our distribution sites,” said Leslie Bacho, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley CEO.

    With no deal in sight, the government shutdown enters its 24th day, just as we prepare to enter the holidays.

    That’s why Diana and Albert said it’s important for them to be there for their community at this time.

    “If you’re a family business in the community that supports you, you have to support the community,” said Albert.

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  • San Jose Día de los Muertos festival still sidelined amid immigration fears

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    A longtime Día de los Muertos festival in downtown San Jose remains canceled.

    Organizers on Friday said there are several concerns with hosting the Day of the Dead event, including low attendance seen over the past two years and not as many sponsors. Another big reason is a fear immigration agents will show up at Día de San Jose.

    “My heart goes to community members, to institutions who are unable to host their celebrations,” said Jessica Paz-Cedillos, CEO of the School of Arts and Culture in San Jose. “There is a lot of information that we may not know and they had to make a difficulty decision.”

    Paz-Cedillos said her school’s Día de los Muertos event is still going on — a festival on a smaller scale, but still with the same colors and traditions.

    “We work with local businesses who have altars along the local corridor,” Paz-Cedillos said. “We have performances along the corridor.”

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  • Investigators probe in-custody death involving San Jose police

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    A man who made contact with police in San Jose suffered a medical emergency and died in custody on Wednesday, the department said.

    Just after 8 a.m., officers were sent to the 400 block of South Buena Vista Avenue on a report of a family disturbance. Someone told police that a physical fight was occurring. Another caller told dispatch that a man at the scene was overdosing on a drug, according to police.

    Officers arrived and found a naked man “acting erratic” and he was detained. According to police, minutes later, the man began having a medical emergency. Paramedics arrived and attempted life-saving measures. The man was taken to the hospital, where he died.

    As per department protocol, the event is being investigated as an in-custody death, the San Jose Police Department said.

    A joint criminal investigation by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office and the San Jose Police Department’s Homicide Unit is underway. The case is being monitored administratively by the San Jose Police Department’s Internal Affairs Unit, the City Attorney’s Office, and the Office of the Independent Police Auditor, authorities said.

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