Police are worried after a gun collection valued at $2 million was robbed from a Gilroy man’s home. The invaders broke into his house, tied him up, and managed to get access to the collection. They beat him up severely and took off with the guns and truck. Police are still investigating the incident, but consider the robbers armed and dangerous.
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San Jose will soon be one step closer to being an electric car Mecca, now that Tesla Motors has confirmed that it plans to open a new showroom on Santana Row. Tesla already has 16 show rooms, including one in Menlo Park and another in Marin. Its first European showroom is scheduled to open in Milan next week.
Some Apple shareholders are getting antsy now that Steve Jobs is on medical leave again.Some of them will be asking Apple to release its succession plan at a shareholders meeting scheduled for Feb. 23. The group is represented by the Central Laborers’ Pension Fund, and has the support of proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services. Apple responded by saying a succession plan is in place and subject to annual review.
Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land broke a story Tuesday morning about Google’s sting operation, aimed at Bing, which convincingly proved that Microsoft is using Google to perform Bing’s search results. Later yesterday, an unsigned piece on The Official Google Blog spelled out its accusation against Microsoft and broke down the sting operation.
In his State of the State address last night, Gov. Jerry Brown invoked pro-democracy demonstrations abroad, asserting assertion that failing to put temporary tax extensions the ballot would be “unconscionable” and “irresponsible.”
The Metropolitan Education District could be cutting all of its recreational classes for adults, due to statewide budget cuts. MetroED was once one of the most successful adult education programs in the nation, serving 115,000 students annually. Because of the cuts, 100 teachers could lose their jobs and two campuses will be shut down.
In his State of the County address on Tuesday, Supervisor Dave Cortese called for a restructuring of the juvenile justice system that would keep young offenders out of juvenile hall. He proposed that the age limit for incarceration be raised from twelve to sixteen. Juvenile Court Judge Patrick Tondreau wants to extend the age distinction to probation as well by establishing a separate probation office for juvenile offenders.
Facebook’s new program, called “sponsored stories,” picks comments that users write about products and incorporates them into ads that appear on their friends’ pages. It’s what the company calls, “word-of-mouth marketing at scale,” though it offers users no possibility of opting out of the program.
The SJPD and sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a thief wielding a knife in a Santa Clara County ravine. Little information has been released about the incident, which ended on Tuesday evening when rescue teams went into the ravine to retrieve the suspect’s body. Police have yet to name the suspect or to identify what it was that he stole.
On Tuesday, Santa Clara County officials will vote on a $6 million cut to the local Social Services Agency’s budget. The Agency’s Director Will Lightbourne calls the services being cut vital, noting that the most obvious cuts, the ones that will have the least impact on the county’s most vulnerable populations, “have been gone for a long time.”
