Judith Cervantes 30 of San Jose has been identified by the Santa Clara County coroner’s office as the woman in a single-vehicle crash near Eastridge Mall yesterday. Cervantes was driving with her 3-year-old nephew when she crashed into a light pole Monday at about noon, according to San Jose police. Cervantes later died at a […]
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Senate approves bill to improve food safety
The Senate has passed legislation to make food safer in the wake of deadly E. coli and salmonella outbreaks, potentially giving the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted food. The $1.4 billion bill, which would also place stricter standards on imported foods, passed the […]
Mountain View water polo player in coma following car accident
Caroline Hansen, a Saint Francis High School senior, considered one of the area’s best water polo players, was seriously injured in a multiple-car crash Saturday, according to a source close to the girl’s family. Hansen was driving southbound on Interstate 280 near El Monte Avenue when she was broadsided on the passenger side by another […]
Big-rig driver involved in 3 seperate fatalities
Big-rig driver Gabriel Manzur Vera, who was involved in collisions that killed cyclist and Santa Cruz teacher John Myslin in Santa Cruz in 2007, Lauren Perdriau Ward, a 47 year-old mother of two from Los Altos hills was also was driving during a third fatal accident in Moss Landing in 2003. Police determined Vera was […]
UCSF shuttle bus kills pedestrian
An unidentified 65-year-old woman was killed this afternoon when she was struck by a UCSF shuttle bus as she was crossing Geary Street at Leavenworth, according to San Francisco police. The accident which occurred at 12:27 pm as The bus was headed north on Leavenworth and turned left onto Geary, at 12:27 pm when the […]
