The Latest Breaking News from San Jose

SAN JOSE, Calif. — New research by a team of San Francisco scientists is raising questions about the usefulness of a new omicron-specific COVID vaccine for next fall, as the virus quickly evolves and the risk of illness is likely to soar.

PayPal Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) began laying off risk management and operations employees working in Chicago, Omaha, Nebraska, and Chandler, Arizona, this week, Bloomberg reports. PayPal ended 2021 with 30,900 employees, a 33% increase from pre-pandemic levels.  PayPal incurred $20 million in costs tied to its restructuring in the first three months of…

SAN JOSE, Calif. — We’ll pause from reporting on the eye-opening developments across college football to offer a truly insane piece of news: Phoenix has become a college sports town.

SAN JOSE — More than a year after five people were stabbed there in a brutal attack that sent shock waves through the community, Grace Baptist Church in downtown San Jose is facing a new lawsuit that accuses it of failing to protect those who worked and took refuge on…

SAN JOSE, California — Caroline Mills now goes into her San Jose office at accounting giant Ernst & Young whenever her team agrees they want to — and sometimes when the company puts on the Wednesday happy hour featuring beer, wine and Asian-fusion food-truck treats. That weekly grub-and-gab session did…

In September 2021, a 3-year-old was killed during an exorcism in a small Pentecostal church in San Jose, California. The child’s throat was allegedly squeezed and her head held down during the ceremony, which likely asphyxiated her. In May 2022, three members of the victim’s family were charged with felony…

SAN JOSE, California — When Apple wanted to clear a large homeless encampment from its property last year, the tech giant didn’t just sweep everyone off the site — it spent millions of dollars to give dozens of people a nine-month motel stay and help them find housing.

San Jose, California, Police Officer Matthew Dominguez faces up to a year in prison after being charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure after reportedly masturbating at the scene of a call. Dominguez and two other officers responded to a call about a mentally ill person who was being violent at that…

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Fire crews worked overnight Saturday to contain 20% of the Owens fire, which has burned 36 acres near Point Arena in Mendocino County.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — After years of yearning to hold her former high school accountable for failing to protect her from sexual abuse by her coach, Allison Brown, a former star basketball player at Valley Christian High School in San Jose, got her chance when a new state law opened…

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The grandfather and uncle allegedly involved in the exorcism death of 3-year-old Arely Naomi Proctor in September will remain in jail for at least another month, following a court appearance Thursday in which attorneys signaled they would consolidate the case with that of Arely’s mother, Claudia…