San Jose Mercury News: Local

Work should begin in October and last nine months.

Two years after a teenager hopped the airport's perimeter fence and sneaked into the wheel well of a Hawaii-bound jet, Mineta San Jose International finished installing higher fencing topped with barbed wire and could soon install more security cameras.

Investigators reasserted Tuesday that a man's death last week along Caltrain tracks near the Bellarmine College Preparatory campus in San Jose is a likely suicide, rebuffing continued speculation that the grisly nature of the discovery suggested something more nefarious.

Six people were displaced after a fire burned an apartment unit at a complex behind Oak Grove High School in South San Jose on Tuesday afternoon.

A warming trend is expected to hit the Bay Area, and many locations are expected to hit 90 degrees on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.

An east San Jose shopping center with a controversial past is at the center of a new dispute between a powerful landowner and business tenants who fear his expansion plans will aggravate traffic, parking and crime in one of the city's most crowded corners.

The student body vice-president of San Jose State University was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and violating a protective order, after security officers witnessed an altercation between him and a date at a concert on campus.

David Lee Russell is accused of physically assaulting and attempting to kidnap two young female victims, police say.

Noting that Colin Kaepernick's protest is protected by the same Constitution police officers have sworn to uphold, Santa Clara's police chief said he will urge them to put aside quarterback's 'distasteful' actions and put public safety first.

The Santa Clara police union says its officers may stop working San Francisco 49ers home games amid Colin Kaepernick's decision to protest police brutality and racial injustice by refusing to stand during the national anthem, according to media reports.