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Can Barracuda defensemen help address Sharks" glaring needs on blue line?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (876+ words) SAN JOSE " Sharks prospect defensemen Nolan Allan and Luca Cagnoni are keeping their focus on the Calder Cup playoffs right now as the San Jose Barracuda open the AHL postseason on Wednesday with a best-of-three series against the Henderson Silver…...
Sharks could be without top-line winger for game vs. rival Anaheim Ducks
4+ week, 1+ day ago (549+ words) SAN JOSE " Winger Igor Chernyshov, dealing with an illness, was unavailable to play Wednesday in the San Jose Sharks" game against the rival Anaheim Ducks in the second game of a critical six-game homestand. Chernyshov wasn"t on the ice…...
Arrest made in fatal-double shooting at San Jose gambling den
14+ hour, 51+ min ago (370+ words) SAN JOSE " A 46-year-old San Jose man has been arrested in connection with a double-fatal shooting at a gambling den roughly a month and a half ago in San Jose, police said. Officers found the victims inside a commercial building…...
Veteran Bay Area builder buys site of failed Los Gatos housing project
10+ hour, 5+ min ago (32+ words) A veteran Bay Area homebuilder has bought the site of a failed Los Gatos housing development that had become snarled in a loan default, financial woes and a foreclosure by its lender....
Person dead after fighting San Jose electric-bike battery fire " The Mercury News
3+ week, 4+ day ago (249+ words) One person is dead after trying to put out a fire started by an electric-bicycle battery in a San Jose apartment, fire officials said. The blaze started Friday morning in the unit on Norwalk Drive, which runs beside Interstate 280 near…...
Transit agency floats plans for hundreds of affordable San Jose homes
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (226+ words) SAN JOSE " The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority has proposed the development of hundreds of affordable homes at its long-time headquarters in North San Jose. At 3331 North First St. , the VTA aims to bulldoze the office complex to make way…...
Meet Coco, downtown San Jose's new autonomous delivery robot
1+ week, 2+ day ago (747+ words) The future " or at least some version of it " arrived in downtown San Jose this week as Santa Monica-based Coco Robotics deployed a fleet of 20 hot pink delivery robots to deliver restaurant food and groceries. We're a pretty tech-friendly city,…...
More winter-like weather in the spring as rain hits Bay Area again
1+ week, 2+ day ago (554+ words) The reappearance of winter-like weather amid the first month of spring continued on Tuesday with more rain falling in the Bay Area, the air growing more unstable, and the falling probability that any long stretch of clear-and-warm weather will appear…...
Larry Magid: Young people starting to push back against Big Tech
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (416+ words) In an interview, organizer Johnny Vasquez said the event was "not asking people to abolish technology. Social media, devices, laptops, phones can all be very useful, as long as we use them appropriately and don't let them distract us or…...
Here's a curious way to say "California homes are wildly expensive' – The Mercury News
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (41+ words) In six California metros, home values equal 27 years of rent vs. only 16 years nationally. That's roughly three-quarters more....