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A beloved holiday tradition in the South Bay is not immune to the labor shortage. Christmas in the Park is in desperate need of more Santas. Many of the regulars have expressed concerns about COVID.

San Jose homicide investigators have identified a suspect in a fatal shooting that claimed the life of a 33-year-old man in June.

Wildlife officials in Colorado say an elusive elk that has been wandering the hills with a car tire around its neck for at least two years has finally been freed of the obstruction.

Southwest Airlines canceled hundreds of more flights on Monday following a weekend of chaos and disruptions.

Jon Gruden is out as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after emails he sent before being hired in 2018 contained racist, homophobic and misogynistic comments.

Police arrested Francis Dagayray, 45, Eutropio Dagayray, 47, and Gilbert Meriales, 45, and booked them into Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of homicide, assault with a deadly weapon and gang enhancements.

The elderly resident was an evacuee from her Pollock Pines home in August during the massive Caldor Fire in the Sierra Nevada mountains and had only been at the facility for four days when family members noticed bruising on her thigh.

Strong winds toppled a 75-foot cypress tree Monday morning near Half Moon Bay, as it brought down power lines, smashed three cars and damaged a garage, fire officials said.   

A University of California, Berkeley economist won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for pioneering research that transformed widely held ideas about the labor force, showing how an increase in the minimum wage doesn’t hinder hiring and immigrants do not lower pay for native-born workers. Two others, including a professor at Stanford University, shared the award for developing ways to study these types of societal issues.

Alex Wood is coming home to start Game 3 of the NL Division Series at Dodger Stadium. For the Giants.

Farmers will be showing up with pumpkins expected to weigh more than 2,000 pounds.

Police say photos show the driver hanging out of the sunroof of his car, holding a traffic cone, while his car was doing donuts in the street.