Micheline Johnson, a 49-year-old woman who worked for American Airlines at the Mineta San Jose International Airport, was named in a 66-count felony complaint by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, which says she stole credit card information to pile up a half-million dollar tab in gift cards and purchases at Safeway.
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When Police Chief Rob Davis retired from the force, his compensation package included almost $300,000 in unused sick leave. Earlier, when Fire Chief Darryl Von Raesfeld retired, he received $269,000 for the days he called in healthy. Now the city’s 20-year-old sick leave policy is raising questions about retirement pay in San Jose.
It will be at least a year before the new Prius goes on sale, but you may end up seeing them in San Jose before that. Toyota has decided to let city employees here and in Berkeley test drive the new model for several months before putting the cars on market. The decision to use the Bay Area as a testing ground is based on the way the car is designed for short, urban commutes.
Sharks come home for supper; Adrian Oliver leading Spartans back to glory; Cardinal likely playing for coach’s job.
The search for a 14-year-old pug and the truck she was stolen in came to an end Tuesday.
Without concessions from the city’s unions, San Jose may be forced to lay off 20 percent of its employees to cover a $110 budget deficit. The layoffs could include over 300 police officers, a first for the city, which is already struggling with a spike in violent crime. Mayor Chuck Reed sees retirement benefits as a key part of the problem. They will cost the city $61 million this year.
Apple’s market cap is now $100 billion more than Microsoft’s, and Google and IBM are catching up too. Could the days of Microsoft’s dominance of the tech world be coming to an end? The race to the top could leave Microsoft in the dust, or rather, in the not so coveted fourth place of U.S. tech companies..
Of all the days for heartbreaking news, one would hope Valentine’s Day would be set aside out of respect. Unfortunately for Richard Brooks, his black truck was stolen Monday morning while he was working out at Gold’s Gym on Monterey Road. Inside the GMC Yukon was his 14-year-old pug, Jessica. (In dog years, she is roughly 100.) The truck and pug have not been found yet.
Gumby, Santa and a panda joined adults in PJs and even a tutu for the city’s first annual pillow fight. Never to be outdone by San Francisco, the good people of San Jose decided that the Bay Area’s largest city would host its own Slumber Party to compete with San Francisco’s Annual Great American Slumber Party. And so a tradition was born.
Every silver lining has a cloud, they say. While the city really wants a $14.9 million FEMA grant to rehire laid off firefighters, accepting it means they can’t lay them off again for two years. The only way to avoid this would be for the firefighters to accept a 10 percent salary cut, and refusing to accept that cut led to the layoffs in the first place.
