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1849 Dec 15
California's first legislature convened in San Jose. A quorum was not reached until Dec. 17.
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1998
Gary Webb (1955-2004), former San Jose news reporter, authored “Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.”
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2016 Jul 4
In San Jose, Ca., police fatally shot Anthony Nunez on his front porch. In 2019 a federal jury awarded his family $2.65 million in damages and determined that the two officers who killed him violated his civil rights. Nunez had been depressed and tried to shoot himself the day he died.
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2021 May 26
A shooting at a maintenance and dispatch center for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in San Jose, Calif., left 10 people dead, including the gunman, and others injured. Officials identified the gunman as Samuel James Cassidy (57), a maintenance worker who had been with the V.T.A. for at least a decade. Police later found 22,000 rounds of ammunition at Cassidy's home. In 2022 relatives of 8 of the 9 people shot reached an $8 million settlement with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
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2022 Apr 9
A fire broke out at a Home Depot in San Jose, Ca. Loss of inventory was estimated at $17 million, with loss of the structure many times that. On April 15 police arrested Dyllin Jaycruz Gogue (27) on charges that included aggravated arson and grand theft.
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2022 Apr 28
The California High Speed Rail Authority approved plans to link San Jose and Merced. The 90-mile extension was estimated to open in 2031.
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2022 May 3
In San Jose, Ca., Amanda Christine Riley was sentenced to five years in prison for soliciting $105, 513 in donations since 2012 by pretending that she had cancer.
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2022 Jul 7
In San Jose, Ca., Ramesh Balwani, a former top executive at Theranos, was found guilty of 12 counts of fraud, in a verdict that was more severe than that of his co-conspirator, Elizabeth Holmes.
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