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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.

Jocquline Mason had just opened a hair salon and recorded a CD. Her campaign to promote teen abstinence was taking off.

She had everything to live for.

But the 44-year-old Oakland woman was found dead Friday morning in her Laurel District apartment on the 3600 block of Patterson Avenue, where [...]

CONCORD (AP) - A Pittsburg man was held on $1 million bail after police seized 3,000 pounds of high-powered fireworks, including commercial models not intended for public sale, from a mobile home park, authorities said.

Keith Dennis Brown, 29, of Pittsburg, is being held on suspicion of possession of destructive devices, [...]

HAYWARD - Hayward police are searching for suspects in four separate robbery incidents that took place Friday, Hayward police Lt. Mark Koller reported today.

A suspect entered U.S. Bank on Hesperian Boulevard around 11:30 a.m. Friday, presented a note to a teller and left with an undetermined amount of [...]

Advanced Micro Devices, seeking to wrest sales away from Intel, will begin selling a new version of the Opteron computer-server chip in August.

The chip will run as fast as 2 gigahertz, or billion cycles a second, said Randy Allen, a vice president in AMD’s server and workstation unit. Still, that isn’t fast [...]

Barbra Streisand performed her first-ever concert in France this week - and was rewarded with a medal of the Legion of Honor.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy awarded the medal to Streisand in a ceremony Thursday, the first time he has bestowed the honor since taking over from Jacques Chirac last month.

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The defense in the trial of Greg Reyes, the former executive of Brocade Communications Systems, appeared to succeed Friday in bolstering one of their core arguments - that investors were not harmed by stock options backdating.

Reyes is on trial for securities fraud associated with stock-option backdating at the San Jose networking [...]

The music industry offered to change some of the new royalty fees on Internet radio broadcasters that are scheduled to take effect July 15 in a bid to end a dispute between the two sides.

Internet broadcasters would pay $2,500 per service to labels and artists regardless of how many channels [...]

IPhone mania wasn’t confined to the Bay Area, of course. Techies, exhibitionists and luminaries - even the mayor of Philadelphia - were among the inaugural group of iPhone customers at stores around the country.

“I just love getting new stuff,” said retiree Len Edgerly, who arrived at 3 a.m. Friday [...]

The judge in the stock options backdating trial of Greg Reyes has decided to leave the jury in place for now.

Earlier this week, an attorney for the defense team reported that an unidentified male juror spoke with her when she was arriving at the federal courthouse in San Francisco and [...]

BOSTON - RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to reality Thursday as a maker of floor-cleaning automatons teamed up with a stun-gun manufacturer to arm track-wheeled ‘bots for police and the Pentagon.

By adding Tasers to robots it already makes for the military, iRobot says [...]