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In October 2004, when inspectors tested the water in front of the Hillview Cleaners dry cleaner in downtown Saratoga, they discovered serious contamination. They found the groundwater coursing with 5,400 µg/L (micrograms per liter) of PCE, a key component in degreasing and scouring fabric for...

This week's "Local Scene" features a pair of Los Gatans aiming to make it big in the supplement game, the civil grand jury putting a call-out for new members and a thespian making the grade... Los Gatos residents launch supplement products Fuel 4 Ever, a family-owned...

The woman accused of luring Los Gatos teens to wild parties and facilitating sexual assaults, appeared in court Monday for a hearing, just days after losing a bail appeal. And while Shannon O’Connor didn’t enter a plea, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office says...

The Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara welcomed nearly 100 attendees recently to this year’s Young Women’s Power Lunch, hosting approximately 60 young women ranging from eighth grade through high school to meet with mentors comprised of female judicial officers, attorneys, elected...

A San Jose recycling company has been ordered by a Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge to pay $25,000 in civil penalties for causing dangerous fires to start in the back of garbage trucks in Campbell.   The company, iDiskk, LLC, its principal Yue Zou,...

A woman who tried to get a permanent restraining order against the husband of a current Los Gatos Council member lost her legal bid April 22. And despite testimony from multiple people claiming they heard Jeffrey Scott, who is married to former mayor Marico Sayoc,...

John Maxey Yeager, the man accused of killing his wife, Yingying “Dawn” Yu, and disposing of her body in the Santa Cruz Mountains, was on the Santa Clara County Superior Court docket for a plea hearing today. Unlike others in the packed Department 34 dock,...

On Jan. 1, the Julie A. Emede official became Presiding Judge, while the Eric S. Geffon was named an assistant presiding judge, with the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Emede, who previously served as an assistant presiding judge, succeeds Beth McGowen, whose term as presiding...