Jesse Gary
Jesse Gary is a senior KTVU reporter based in the station’s South Bay Bureau, in Downtown San Jose.
Originally from the New York City suburbs, Gary began his broadcast career after graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas. His first full-time TV news reporting job was in Lafayette, Louisiana, where he worked as a reporter and camera person.
After a few years, and a short stint as a junior reporter in Dallas, Gary landed a job at KWTV in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Gary was the first reporter broadcasting from the scene of the Murrah Federal Building domestic terrorist bombing in 1995. During the course of the following year, he was part of a team of reporters who profiled each of the 168 people who were killed that day.
After Oklahoma City, Gary worked in Philadelphia and then the Bay Area for 10 years. He left KTVU to accept a job working in Los Angeles, before returning to Philadelphia for the birth of his son. He returned to the Bay Area and KTVU in 2016.
Gary is the recipient of multiple regional awards, including two Emmy Awards, multiple Emmy nominations, and one Peabody award (team coverage).
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Officials in Santa Clara County on Wednesday welcomed news that Gov. Gavin Newsom has earmarked $50 million in state funding to help reduce, and potentially end, the region’s homelessness crisis.
3 sentenced in killing of former cop Kevin Nishita in Oakland
Three men convicted in the killing of Kevin Nishita were sentenced Tuesday and will spend decades in prison.
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For Californians, the sting of high gas prices may be a warning sign of broader economic trouble ahead.
Suspect in deadly Lafayette hatchet attack faces murder charge
A man accused in a deadly hatchet attack in Lafayette over the weekend appeared in court Wednesday.
Man convicted in 1987 San Jose photo shop murder resentenced
A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge on Friday resentenced a man convicted of killing an 18-year-old woman at a San Jose photo shop in 1987 to 25 years to life, making him eligible for parole.
Oakland’s 'golden moment': Oscars, Grammys and Olympic wins shift narrative
Ryan Coogler opened his Academy Award acceptance speech Sunday with a message that resonated beyond Hollywood.
Double homicide in San Jose commercial building; neighbor heard arguing
San Jose police said two men were shot to death inside a commercial building, in a case where they were still working on a motive for the violence.
Flock surveillance cameras will stay in San Jose, but vote enacts revisions
San Jose City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to revise the city's automated license plate reader program that scales back some aspects of the surveillance system amid growing privacy concerns that have led other Bay Area cities to abandon the technology altogether.
Swalwell staffer flies to Colombia to give hearing aid to deported deaf boy
U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell on Monday held a press conference to say that a member of his staff flew to Colombia to bring a hearing aid for a six-year-old deaf son of a mother who was not allowed to bring the device to her home country when federal officials removed the family from the country last week.