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A VTA light-rail train collided with an unmarked San Jose Police car Thursday night, injuring the on-duty officer inside.

The force of the crash pushed the vehicle several yards, leaving shattered glass on the roadway and the officer trapped inside his car on First Street just north of Highway 880.

The officer was transported to Valley Medical Center for treatment, where he is in serious but stable condition. His identity was not released. Two passengers in the light-rail train complained of pain, but did not receive treatment.

The two-car train, which was carrying 19 passengers, was heading north on First Street about 6 p.m. when the car drove into its path, said Bernice Alaniz, spokeswoman for the Valley Transportation Authority. Both the train and the car were heading north.

The collision temporarily halted service for about two hours.

San Jose Police officer Enrique Garcia said the incident is under investigation.

Two brothers from San Jose who took in thousands of dollars for treatments as “faith/mystic” healers are facing charges of grand theft for allegedly scamming hundreds of people.

Police say that John Salazar, 23, who called himself “Master Alexander,” and Carlos Salazar, 34, told clients they were cursed and must be cleansed [...]

A San Mateo man’s conviction for the murder of a gas station attendant during a 1992 robbery was overturned by a federal appeals court in San Francisco today because of errors in jury instructions.

Michael Pulido was 17 at the time of the murder of Ramon Flores during a robbery of a Shell [...]

Police in two Peninsula cities are on alert after scattered reports of adult strangers approaching school-age children to try to lure them into vehicles.

At least three such incidents in the past two weeks have been confirmed, with two in Menlo Park and one about 20 miles north [...]

Resisting arrest charges against Mr. Natural Universe, stemming from an April encounter with police at a Redwood City movie theater, were dropped this morning in San Mateo County Superior Court for insufficient evidence.

Prosecutors dismissed misdemeanor charges of resisting a police officer and battery on a police officer against Douglas Burns, 43, of [...]

Police have arrested a San Jose man on suspicion of homicide after he allegedly ran over another man with his vehicle in a hit-and-run incident early Monday morning in downtown San Jose.

Police allege that Juan Bosques Ramos, 24, and the victim had “been involved in a physical altercation” before [...]

News Corp. announced today it bought photo- and video-sharing site Photobucket and Web 2.0 tools site Flextor for undisclosed amounts. The purchases come three weeks after the company’s Fox Interactive Media division was rumored to be close to a deal to buy Photobucket for as much as $300 million.

The acquisitions will allow [...]

As police investigate a string of recent shootings in East Palo Alto, detectives in the city’s criminal investigations unit are running into dead ends as they encounter witnesses and victims who are refusing to talk.

Two victims who were both shot in the leg - 22-year-old Dantae McCoy Hurd on May 14 and [...]

Rodney Smith, the former chief executive of Altera, was a detail-oriented manager whose “fabless” business model of chip development led his 10-person semiconductor start-up to more than $800 million in annual sales over 20 years.

A fierce competitor described by employees as respected and fair, Smith, [...]

Hewlett-Packard today will unveil an initiative aimed at getting consumers to print more documents from the Internet - and, it hopes, use more HP printers and ink in the process.

The initiative, called Print 2.0, includes partnerships with some popular Web sites and companies to incorporate improved [...]

Apple Inc.’s iTunes Store started selling thousands of songs without copy protection Wednesday, marking the trendsetting company’s latest coup and a model for what analysts say will likely become a pattern for online music sales.

Launching initially with songs from music company EMI Group PLC, iTunes Plus features tracks that are free of [...]