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The woman who garnered national notoriety after she was arrested and charged with throwing alcohol- and sex-filled parties for Los Gatos teens — in which authorities contend multiple underage sexual assaults occurred — is set to appear in a San Jose courtroom Wednesday to answer to more than three-dozen criminal counts. Shannon O’Connor, aka Shannon […]
A maskless woman accused of refusing to leave a Costa Mesa grocery store has become the only person to go on trial in Orange County after allegedly refusing to follow face-covering mandates during the coronavirus pandemic. A jury will soon decide whether Marianne Campbell Smith is guilty of a pair of misdemeanor charges — trespassing […]
Concerns about the health of Queen Elizabeth II grew Wednesday after Buckingham Palace announced she was “reluctantly” canceling a planned trip to Northern Ireland on doctor’s “advice.” The news came after the 95-year-old monarch was seen using a walking stick during two engagements last week, and after Vanity Fair reported that doctors had told her […]
Welcome to our Pac-12 midseason review, which, admittedly, comes just past the midway point for four teams … Biggest story I: One big win, many bad losses Oregon’s breakthrough victory at Ohio State in Week Two prevented what otherwise would have been a failed September for the collective, what with three losses to Brigham Young, […]
A Palo Alto woman who went missing while hiking was found safe after spending two nights in freezing and snowy conditions, the Fresno County sheriff’s office said. Jolly Bose, 49, had been reported missing after she became separated from companions on Sunday afternoon on a ridge near Kaiser Pass, above Huntington Lake in the southern […]
Mike Lefkow, the two-time defending champion of this all-for-fun high school football picks competition, had the best record in Week 8. The bad news for Lefkow is he was only one game better than yours truly and Evan Webeck. Lefkow went 9-7. We went 8-8. Yeah, we know. That’s like a bad NFL division. Webeck […]
It’s entirely possible that even you, a die-hard chocoholic, may not yet know about San Francisco’s Kokak Chocolates. Founder and head chocolatier Carol Gancia opened her shop, which specializes in small batch, single origin chocolate, in the middle of the pandemic last summer, when everyone was staying close to home. But this female LGBTQ-owned chocolate […]
San Jose High senior Jordan Fricke knows of one class that’s had a revolving door of three long-term substitute teachers so far this fall. Berkeley High School teacher Hasmig Minassian has seen a librarian supervise four classes because no one else was available. Logan Mengotto’s father said his son didn’t have a teacher in two […]
Daniel Chung, a Santa Clara County prosecutor who is suing District Attorney Jeff Rosen for political retaliation amid a public falling out with that office, has escalated his opposition by adding himself as a challenger to Rosen’s 2022 re-election bid. Prosecutor Daniel Chung is running for Santa Clara County District Attorney to unseat his boss, […]