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Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said he may look into allegations that backers of Measure A, the sales tax increase for county-run hospitals, made a deal to share the tax proceeds with law enforcement unions, but now have reneged on that promise. County leaders characterized the 5/8ths-of-a-cent sales tax increase approved Nov. 4 as a lifeline for their massive public hospital system. They warned the hospital system was in jeopardy amid federal spending cuts under President Trump.

The shooting was reported around 11:05 p.m. on Aug. 4 in the area of Dry Creek Road and Marques Avenue, San Jose police Officer Tanya Hernandez said in a news release Friday. Officers learned a group of five teenagers got into a verbal altercation and fired a gun multiple times, Hernandez said. The suspects were gone by the time officers arrived at the scene. No one was injured, but an unoccupied vehicle parked in the area was struck by a bullet.

OAKLAND A man was shot on the Laney College campus on Thursday, authorities said. The shooting apparently happened at around 11:53 a.m. in an athletic building near Fifth Avenue and East Eighth Street. The condition of the man shot was not immediately available, nor was his connection to the community college known.

Firefighters tackled the blaze at St James Park after smoke was seen billowing from a portacabin near the Well Street end of the ground at about 22:00 GMT on Wednesday. Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue said the fire started in an electrical unit, before spreading to a temporary building - the football club a small area of the stadium had been damaged. By midnight, the fire had been extinguished, with ventilation fans used to clear smoke.

The DLR's new trains have been taken out of service just weeks after the first one started carrying passengers, following reports of problems with one of the trains breaking in wet weather. Transport for London ( TfL) says that although there has been only one isolated incident involving a single train, all three new trains that were in service have been temporarily withdrawn from service.

Police were investigating the explosion outside Delhi's historic Red Fort that killedeight people, with authorities focusing on the final movements of the vehicle allegedly involved. Police said the explosion occurred around 7pm on Monday evening outside the Red Fort metro station, a peak time when Delhi's old city is usually packed with people, bustling markets and heavy traffic. Delhi police commissioner Satish Golcha said the explosion took place after a slow moving vehicle stopped at a red light outside the metro station.

A 22-year-old man has died after a crash early Saturday morning in Bracebridge, about 80 kilometers northeast from Barrie, Ont., said Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). Officers responded to reports of a two-vehicle crash around 1:30 a.m. on Fraserburg Road between McKay Trail and Old Cottage Road, said a news release by OPP. The 22-year-old passenger from Brantford, Ont., was pronounced dead after the head-on collission, said police. The two drivers and another passenger were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Police in England on Sunday ruled out speculation that a mass stabbing on a passenger train that injured 11 people was a terrorist attack. "At this stage, there is nothing to suggest that this is a terrorist incident," British Transport Police Superintendent John Loveless told UK media. He continued: "At this early stage, it would not be appropriate to speculate on the causes of the incident."

This centuries-old symbol of hate and racial violence evokes deep emotion and has no place in our community,

The explosion that occurred in the Waldo's store in the center of Hermosillo has left a profound sadness in all Sonorenses,

Martínéz, 27, was driving to Inter's training ground in Appiano Gentile when at 9:43 a.m. on a provincial road in Fenegrò, Como, Italy, when the car struck a man in an electric wheelchair that had crossed into his lane, the police report said. Martínéz stopped at the scene and called the emergency services, with an ambulance and a helicopter arriving minutes later, but attempts to revive the man were unsuccessful.

A youth counselor at a juvenile detention facility in Brooklyn pocketed more than $70,000 in bribes to sneak in drugs and weapons, Big Apple investigators said Thursday. Lymek Frazier, 31, is accused of taking payments from relatives and friends of youths locked up at the Crossroads Juvenile Center through cash apps, including over $21,000 in bribes in 48 "transactions" over just six months last year, the New York City Department of Investigation announced.

A 28-year-old man died at Walt Disney World's Contemporary Resort on Thursday, marking the third death at the Florida park and second at that resort in the past 10 days. The deceased was identified as Matthew Cohn, with Orlando's Orange County Medical Examiner's Office telling the Daily News that he's believed to have been staying at the hotel. The circumstances surrounding Cohn's death are still under investigation.

Firefighters mopping up a small brush fire that authorities say reignited as the Palisades fire five days later were ordered to leave the original burn scene even though they complained the ground was still smoldering and rocks remained hot to the touch, according to firefighter text messages reviewed by The Times. To the firefighters' surprise, their battalion chief ordered them to roll up their hoses and pull out of the area on Jan. 2 - the day after the 8-acre blaze was declared contained - rather than stay and make sure there were no hidden embers that could spark a new fire, the text messages said.

In a letter to interim Fire Chief Ronnie Villanueva, Bass asked that he "thoroughly investigate" a report by The Times about the Los Angeles Fire Department's missteps in putting out a small brush fire that federal authorities say was intentionally set on New Year's Day. The previously undisclosed details have prompted fresh outrage among those who lost homes in the worst fire in city history.

"We didn't ask to have legalized sports betting," Manfred said before Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday night. "It kind of came, and that's the environment in which we operate. Now we don't have a lot of choice about that, and if it's going to change -- broadly change -- probably the only way it would happen is the federal government."

Recruits training at the new East Falmouth Police Academy earlier this year were mentally and physically tormented, denied bathroom breaks, and forced into grueling outdoor exercises - often without proper gear for the below-freezing temperatures, according to a new state report.