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A couple wounded in the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting Sunday confronted the gunman before he shot them at close range, NBC Bay Area has learned from family members.

A plan is in the works to open a new clinic at Stanford Hospital aimed at helping sexual assault victims.

A $16,000 painting was stolen from a new wing at Valley Medical Center in San Jose, and the sheriff’s office is asking for the public’s help in tracking down the suspected thief.

California health officials are fining Redwood City-based Sequoia Hospital $47,452 for erroneously removing a patient’s ovaries last year. The Peninsula facility is one of 14 hospitals facing 17 penalties issued by the California Department of Public Health on Thursday. Accused of not complying with “licensing requirements that caused, or were likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients,” the...

A former Stanford University swimmer was sentenced Thursday to 6 months in jail and three years probation for sexually assaulting a woman on campus in January 2015.

The trail where a 6-year-old boy was attacked by a mountain lion remained closed on Thursday, a day after a federal tracker killed the animal as it perched in a tree.

Officers from California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife have killed a mountain lion near the Cupertino hiking trail where a 6-year-old boy was attacked by a big cat on Sunday.

A wildlife tracker said he spotted fresh paw prints by a creek in Cupertino that he believes belong to a mountain lion that attacked a 6-year-old boy on Sunday afternoon.

Nicholas Dillon has a broken pelvis. And it’s going to be months before he gets to play soccer again. But still, the 13-year-old Napa boy, is feeling lucky – despite the fact that he suffered among the most serious injuries of the 208 people first admitted to the hospital as a result of the 6.0-magnitude earthquake on Sunday.

Nicholas Dillon suffered pelvic fractures but no broken spine.