Gilroy

A Gilroy couple has been charged with human trafficking after forcing a man to work 15-hour shifts seven days a week for no pay at their liquor store and then locking him inside the store overnight, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.

Health officials in the South Bay are opening a special COVID-19 testing center on Saturday after about 200 high school students in Gilroy went to a party where someone in attendance later tested positive.

Twelve residents at a skilled nursing home in Gilroy have died from COVID-19, and 75 have tested positive for coronavirus, according to a newspaper report Thursday.

A South Bay family is devastated Friday after their classic bicycles were stolen. They weren’t just any bikes, they were handmade, and they may have started a long, historic tradition that is still alive today.

Children from a large migrant labor camp at the southern-most tip of Santa Clara County are struggling to get reliable internet service needed for online learning.

Amazon continued to snatch up real estate in Silicon Valley with a recent purchase of farmland in Gilroy for which it paid about four times the assessed value, according to a report from the Mercury News.

From Southern California to the State Capitol, this week hundreds gathered across California to protest Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay at home order and demand the state economy reopen – but for many families who’ve lost loved ones to coronavirus, the protests are a slap in the face.

Go ahead and add this to your list of favorite animal videos. An apparently playful coyote and their supposed badger buddy were captured on camera traveling together under a highway in the Bay Area. The adorable video made its way to Twitter Monday evening, quickly garnering hundreds of thousands of likes as well as prompting the creation of hashtags such…

It’s been six months since a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival claimed three lives and left a dozen people wounded, and the anniversary will be marked Tuesday with the opening of a new center devoted to helping survivors.

Three people were killed, including a 6-year-old boy, 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. A suspect was shot and killed by police.

Following the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival and a double homicide in Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County is fighting back by trying to get guns off the streets.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s recent vow to take away people’s AR-15 and AK-47 rifles raised one big question: How is it possible to round up the millions of such guns that exist in the United States? The number of AR-15 and AK-47s in the U.S. is estimated at a staggering 16 million, creating logistical challenges to take them out...

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s recent vow to take away people’s AR-15 and AK-47 rifles raised one big question: How is it possible to round up the millions of such guns that exist in the United States? The number of AR-15 and AK-47s in the U.S. is estimated at a staggering 16 million, creating logistical challenges to take them out...

The National Rifle Association has sued San Francisco where city officials recently declared the gun-rights lobby a terrorist organization. The NRA says in its lawsuit that the city is infringing on its free speech rights and is seeking to blacklist anyone associated with it.

Bob Mokos is a passionate gun owner who on the surface would seem like a card-carrying National Rifle Association member. The retired airline pilot has been shooting guns since he was a child. The Vietnam veteran got more serious about firearms as a civilian after one of his sisters was fatally shot during a mugging in Chicago. After the 9/11...

Actresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoria are leading a group of more than 150 writers, artists and leaders who have written a public “letter of solidarity” to U.S. Latinos after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, and an immigration raid in Mississippi. The letter, published Friday in The New York Times and in a handful of Spanish-language newspapers, says...

Amid renewed calls for urgent action on gun control, members of Congress are weighing potentially bipartisan ideas to curb gun violence after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, Dayton, Ohio, and Gilroy, California, over the last two weeks have left nearly three dozen people dead. The legislative proposals under consideration include stronger background checks, “red flag” laws that prevent those...

The gunman in the deadly California food festival shooting had a passport, clown mask, wilderness survival guide and bottle rockets in his car at the time of the attack, court documents released Thursday show.

The gunman arrested in the El Paso shooting that left 22 people dead was charged with capital murder on Sunday, and authorities are treating the attack as a domestic terrorism case. El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza told reporters that the state of Texas also plans to seek the death penalty, adding, “We will hold him accountable.” “We have...

El Paso District Attorney Jaime Esparza discusses his plans to charge the suspected El Paso Walmart shooter with capital murder. If convicted, the suspect would face the death penalty.