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are treating attack as hate crime Police call evidence for hate crime “appalling and disturbing” SUNNYVALE — A driver who used his car to intentionally run down pedestrians earlier this week apparently was targeting a family he thought was Muslim, police said Friday, at a news conference held shortly after the suspect in the attack was arraigned in court. Police are now treating the crash as a hate crime. They said they believe the driver, Isaiah Joel Peoples, targeted the family, believed to be South Asian, purely based on their appearance. Three family members — the father, a 13-year-old daughter...

Officials are investigating the incident as an intentional act due to initial statements made at the scene SUNNYVALE, Calif. (NBC Bay Area) — Eight pedestrians, including a 13-year-old, were hospitalized Tuesday evening after a suspected speeding driver drove into them in Sunnyvale, California, officials said. The crash was reported at 6:40 p.m. at the intersection of El Camino Real and Sunnyvale Saratoga Road, which is located near a number of restaurants and other businesses.

Eight pedestrians were injured Tuesday evening in Sunnyvale, Calif., after a driver, who was reportedly speeding, “deliberately drove into" them, police said. The driver, identified only as an adult male, is in custody. All eight people, who were walking through a crosswalk or standing nearby, were transported to local hospitals for treatment and evaluation, Capt. Jim Choi of the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety told The Washington Post. The youngest victim is 13 years old, Choi said. Police have not identified the victims or offered updates on their conditions.

“It’s now illegal in California to shower and do laundry on the same day,” my husband read out loud to me a few weeks ago. “How are they going to police that?” I wondered. “It doesn’t matter,” he replied. “California is so out of touch with reality that it just doesn’t matter anymore.” It saddens me to watch my former home state implode, but that’s precisely what is happening. California has been called the world’s largest insane asylum, and as headline piles upon headline illustrating the latest madness, the description seems apt. It’s no wonder people are fleeing the Golden...

The Arabsat-6A satellite has completed primary assembly and has been shipped to Lockheed Martin's Sunnyvale, California facilities to begin testing in preparation for flight... When Arabsat-6A was transported from Denver to Sunnyvale, the satellite was housed inside of a "mobile clean room." This container ensures that the spacecraft was kept safe and secure. "Arabsat-6A and its companion satellite, Hellas Sat 4/SaudiGeoSat-1 are the most advanced commercial communications satellites we've ever built," said Lisa Callahan, vice president and general manager of Commercial Civil Space for Lockheed Martin via a statement issued by the company... If everything goes according to plan, Arabsat-6A...

A house in Sunnyvale just sold for close to $800,000 over its listing price. Your eyes do not deceive you: The four-bed, two-bath house — less than 2,000 square feet — listed for $1,688,000 and sold for $2,470,000.

SUNNYVALE -- A man who phoned police to report he had killed a person was himself shot and killed by officers after he reportedly charged at them with a weapon according to the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety. .... Moments after the shooting, police found a woman's body inside the house and confirmed she was the victim of a homicide. ..... Neighbor accounts and public records suggest that a husband and wife lived at the home in the 600 block of San Pedro Avenue, ... Police went to the home after a caller, believed to be the man who sparked...

SUNNYVALE -- A prominent Silicon Valley clean-energy startup has been ordered to pay back wages and penalties for bringing in workers from Mexico and paying them about $2.66 an hour in pesos, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday. Sunnyvale-based Bloom Energy, which makes fuel cells and sells energy to clients including AT&T, Adobe, Coca-Cola, eBay, Google and Wal-Mart, was ordered by a judge to pay $31,922 in back wages and an equal amount in damages to 14 welders who were brought in to work alongside domestic workers refurbishing power generators. It followed a federal investigation that inspected records from...

A former teacher at a Christian preparatory school in Sunnyvale was arrested on sexual abuse charges stemming from allegations involving a 13-year-old girl she taught eight years ago. Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety Capt. Doug Moretto said Abigail Anne Holloway, 33, who taught physical education at Kings Academy on North Britton Avenue, was arrested Thursday in Englewood, Colo., where she had been teaching at another Christian school. Holloway is expected to have an extradition hearing in Colorado and be transferred to the Santa Clara County Jail next week, Morretto said. He described the arrest warrant as containing "multiple counts of...

Talk about a clash of cherished green values. In a case with statewide significance, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office is pursuing a Sunnyvale couple under a little-known California law because redwood trees in their backyard cast a shadow over their neighbor's solar panels. Richard Treanor and Carolynn Bissett own a Prius and consider themselves environmentalists. But they refuse to cut down any of the trees behind their house on Benton Street, saying they've done nothing wrong. "We're just living here in peace. We want to be left alone," said Bissett, who with her husband has spent $25,000 defending...

Amateur car mechanics working in their driveways will face some new rules, including a ban on major repairs and working on more than two vehicles at once, the Sunnyvale City Council decided Tuesday night. Minor repairs and maintenance such as oil changes are allowed in driveways, and can be done from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. The new law forbids more than two projects at once, and all cars being worked on must be registered to a resident of the home or to an immediate family member. The council voted 4-3 in favor of the new rules, with Councilmen John...

Mountain View-based MetroFi is expected to announce today that it plans to bring free, advertising-supported wireless Internet service to all 130,000 residents of Sunnyvale. The network has already been installed in areas serving about a third of households in the 24-square-mile city. Those citizens can get free online access using MetroFi's network if their computers can pick up wireless Internet, or WiFi, signals. The rest of the city's residential and business districts will be able to access the network by spring, MetroFi Chief Executive Chuck Haas said. For free access, customers must accept a half-inch advertising strip -- much like...

My friend recently moved from Texas to California. Two weeks ago, he was arrested for a crime he didn't commit. His mother sent me an email describing the situation. It reads, in part: Sunday morning, October 8th at 10:30a.m., Steve (not his real name) was sitting in his truck in front of his apartment talking on his cell phone. Two men approached him and said that he had exposed himself to their daughters. Both Steve and one of the men called 911. The police came, handcuffed Steve and took him to jail. His truck was impounded. He sat in jail...

A lieutenant with the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety is facing a possible drunken-driving charge after he was allegedly stopped with guns and a dead wild pig in the back of his pickup truck, refused to submit to a field sobriety test and asked a CHP officer to let him go because ``we're on the same team.'' Lt. Douglas Michael Sims, who supervises a fire station but is also on the city's Special Weapons and Tactics Team, was released without being booked into jail. He refused to submit to a blood-alcohol test or answer any questions about whether he had...

<p>Traffic on Mathilda Avenue near Third Street in Sunnyvale is backed up today because of a gathering of anti-war protesters at Lockheed Martin offices.</p> <p>Sunnyvale Police say about 100 protesters from Direct Action to Stop the War have gathered outside three entrances to the company's main office at Lockheed Martin Way.</p>

<p>Two Marines who had spent their childhoods in the South Bay were killed earlier this week when the helicopter they were riding in crashed in southern Iraq during a support mission.</p> <p>Sgt. Michael Vernon Lalush, 23, formerly of Sunnyvale, and Capt. Aaron J. Contreras, 31, who was born in San Jose, were both assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169 when their UH-1N Huey helicopter went down Sunday in an apparent accident at a forward supply and refueling site. No enemy fire was involved, the Department of Defense said.</p>