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BLAZING BATTERIES: Recycler fined $25k for Campbell garbage truck fires
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,...
Woman pleads not guilty to hosting drunken parties for youth
The Los Gatos woman who stands accused of hosting alcohol-fueled parties for local high schoolers and facilitating sexual assault at the home she owned with tech executive Robert Amaral pleaded “not guilty” to all charges Monday in Santa Clara County Superior Court.
Judge Johnny C....
Saratoga tech startup to pay $630K to feds
Technology startup eBibelot, based in Saratoga, and its CEO, Melody Fallah-Khair, have agreed to pay $630,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed they violated the False Claims Act by improperly certifying compliance with the terms of a National Science Foundation grant that restricted...
Did Los Gatos’ Housing Element suddenly fall out of compliance?
The developer behind the 119-unit, 13-story “Capri Fruitstand” proposal for 14288 Capri Dr.—which includes 24 units of affordable housing—has renewed its legal claim that the Town of Los Gatos has been taking illegal steps to block residential development in this corner of Silicon Valley.
In...
Woman who threw parties for teens faces defamation action
Shannon O’Connor, the wife of tech executive Robert Amaral, who threw parties for teens at their Arroyo Del Rancho Road mansion, spent Christmas behind bars, after being called a threat to public safety and a high flight risk by prosecutors.
She’s been charged with 39...
Child sex crimes case put on hold for Los Gatos baker
The criminal case against a man who ran an artisianal bakery in Los Gatos and is accused of several child sex offenses has been paused as the court decides if he’s mentally fit to stand trial.
Ali Asghar Shemirani has been charged with three felonies...
Jury finds Shannon O’Connor guilty of dozens of crimes—she faces decades behind bars
Shannon O’Connor, the mother charged with hosting alcohol-fueled parties for teens at her mansion in Los Gatos and orchestrating the sex lives of the youth in her orbit, is set to spend decades behind bars after a jury rendered its verdict today in Santa...
Trial Update: Witness says she thinks Shannon O’Connor may have sexually assaulted her
On Thursday morning, the People called Jane Doe 8 in the ongoing trial of Shannon O’Connor, the Los Gatos mom accused of being reckless with the lives of youth by giving them alcohol and encouraging them to have sex while at her house, and...
Court of Appeal considers whether to free ‘party mom’ again
California’s 6th District Court of Appeal heard arguments Oct. 13 about whether a Los Gatos woman charged with throwing alcohol-fuelled parties for teens should be released from jail.
A Superior Court judge denied bail for Shannon O’Connor earlier this year, but the State Supreme Court...
Man accused of murdering wife appears in court
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,...


















