Crime Punishment Discrepancy Depends on County Line

NBC 11 - Sunday 19th May, 2013

But Mark wasn’t even charged. The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office officially kicked off a new misdemeanor diversion program last July for petty theft, trespass, and vandalism charges. James Gibbons-Shapiro oversees the Misdemeanor Unit at the D.A.’s ...

Chatwood leads Rockies past Giants 10-2

The Seattle Times - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Tyler Chatwood threw into the sixth inning and Wilin Rosario hit a two-run homer off Tim Lincecum in the Colorado Rockies' 10-2 rout of the San Francisco Giants on Saturday ...

$600M Winning Powerball Numbers Announced

CBS 5 - Saturday 18th May, 2013

DES MOINES, Iowa (CBS/AP) — Lottery officials: Winning numbers in $600M drawing are 22, 10, 13, 14, 52 and Powerball 11. The $600 million jackpot was the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery ...

Fremont Silicon Valley-Area Hub Becomes Factory Town

CBS 5 - Saturday 18th May, 2013

FREMONT (CBS/AP) — In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each. Down the road in another plant, crews slice solar cells, place them under glass sheets and create panels that ship by the boxful to Europe. Elsewhere in this town, industrial workshops ...

Homeless in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Daily - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Investigative journalist Bill Moyers takes a look at poverty and the homeless in Silicon Valley despite the area's tremendous wealth creation over the past decade from Google, Facebook, Oracle and ...

Pilot Killed When Plane Departing From Santa Clara Crashes In Truckee

CBS 5 - Saturday 18th May, 2013

TRUCKEE (CBS/AP) — Federal investigators are trying to determine the cause of a small plane crash that killed a pilot near the Sierra town of Truckee. The Federal Aviation Administration says the pilot was flying alone when the twin-engine Cessna 421 crashed Thursday afternoon in the Tahoe National Forest about 15 miles northeast of Truckee. The pilot’s name wasn’t ...

Bomb Scare Prompts Evacuation After Amgen Tour Bike Race In Livermore

CBS 5 - Saturday 18th May, 2013

LIVERMORE (CBS SF) — Festivities surrounding the Amgen Tour of California Race were brought to a temporary halt by a bomb scare in downtown Livermore Saturday afternoon, according to a police spokeswoman. The multi-city bicycle race had already passed through town around 2:30 p.m. but many people remained on the scene when a suspicious cardboard box with a postmark from Southern ...

Police San Jose man arrested for stabbing Fremont motorist in chest with screwdriver

Oakland Tribune - Saturday 18th May, 2013

FREMONT -- A San Jose man was arrested Friday afternoon for allegedly stabbing a fellow motorist in the chest with a screwdriver at a Fremont gas station earlier this week following a road-rage incident.Fremont police arrested Bryant Salazar, 30, on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the stabbing at the 76 Gas station at 46840 Warm Springs Blvd. Tuesday at 5:55 p.m., ...