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Three people were killed, including a 6-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, and 12 others were wounded Sunday after a gunman cut through a fence to avoid security and opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.

The gunman in the Gilroy Garlic Festival mass shooting has been identified as Santino William Legan, a federal law enforcement official confirmed to NBC News. Legan had posted online about an 1890 racist manifesto, “Might is Right or The Survival of the Fittest.”

Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a shooting late Monday night in unincorporated San Jose.

The man accused of brutally killing a San Jose woman in her own home was set to enter a plea in Santa Clara County Court Friday but a judge postponed the hearing because his public defender says he had just received evidence in the case on Thursday.

Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office deputies Thursday responded to a late-night escape.

A San Jose man was arrested Saturday on charges of impersonating a federal agent while making illegal traffic stops on South Bay roadways, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

A glitch in the Santa Clara County court’s new computer program for warrants is a cause for concern for local police.

A Santa Clara County sheriff’s lieutenant was arrested on Wednesday in Las Vegas for allegedly faking the extent of an injury and receiving workers’ compensation.

One of the most volatile political races this November is the one for Santa Clara County Sheriff, with longtime incumbent Laurie Smith facing off against her onetime second-in-command, retired undersheriff John Hirokawa.

School has started for many in the Bay Area, and one classroom in the South Bay is anything but typical, with students wearing handcuffs and shackles.

A Mountain View couple is accusing a mobile dog groomer of brutalizing their dog, taping its mouth shut while performing grooming services.

Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Dive Team gives their thoughts on what comes next for the 12 teenagers and their soccer coach who were found trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand Monday, nine days after searching through two and a half miles of caves.

A suspect believed to be connected to a 1974 cold case allegedly shot and killed himself at a San Jose apartment complex Thursday while authorities attempted to conduct a search warrant, according to Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith.

Two women who police described as “best friends” were arrested Thursday for allegedly having sex with under-aged boys, Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. Law enforcement officials started an investigation into Talia Sisco of Saratoga and Tina Pourani of San Jose on April 7, over the suspicion of alleged sexual relationships between the two and several boys attneding a local...

Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith appears headed to a runoff election in November after not receiving a majority of the vote to secure her sixth term in office.

The tradition of one hunger strike a year in Santa Clara County jails since 2016 continues, as the majority of inmates have not ordered food from the commissary since Sunday, according to a local advocacy group organizer.

Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith issued statements Tuesday evening after receiving criticism for a jail reform report she requested be commissioned that ended up not being heard by the county’s Board of Supervisors.

A San Francisco Bay Area sheriff’s office says it allowed federal deportation officers to enter the jail it operates and interview four inmates in violation of the agency’s pro-immigrant sanctuary policies. Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith told NBC Bay Area that members of her staff “mistakenly” let U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers enter their facility March 7 and...

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a light rail train in San Jose late Tuesday, according to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.

The second inmate who escaped from a courthouse in Palo Alto earlier this month was arrested in San Leandro on Sunday, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department.