Thomas Peele, San Jose Mercury News

Thomas Peele

San Jose Mercury News

San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States

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Past:
  • San Jose Mercury News
  • EdSource
  • Santa Cruz Sentinel
  • Vallejo Times-Herald
  • East Bay Times
  • Marin IJ
  • Vacaville Reporter
  • L.A. Daily News
  • Oakland Tribune

Past articles by Thomas:

Chico State president supports investigation into university’s probe of professor’s affair and alleged threats

Chico State President Gayle Hutchinson said in a statement Tuesday that she supports calls for California State University to conduct an independent investigation of how the campus dealt with a sus… → Read More

Northern California university president apologizes for handling of professor’s affair and alleged violent threats

On the eve of a special Academic Senate meeting on campus safety, Chico State President Gayle Hutchinson issued a statement late Tuesday afternoon, apologizing to the campus for her administration’… → Read More

Northern California college professor disciplined for student affair allegedly threatened colleagues who complained

Chico State says 2020 affair “might be considered differently today.” → Read More

Oakland calls for an end to gun violence following second school shooting in a month that injured six

Police say all the victims - adult students and staff - are affiliated with one of the schools. No details were released on what triggered the shootings Wednesday afternoon. → Read More

Ex-San Jose State coach suspended from current job

While he was at San Jose State in 2017, investigators found that Hawkins sexually and racially harassed players and his coaching staff with raunchy sex jokes, used racial slurs referring to some pl… → Read More

Former CSU baseball coach sexually and racially harassed players and staff, investigation found

The investigation is just the latest in a string of sexual harassment and abuse cases involving California State University staff and administrators. → Read More

13-year-old shot at Oakland school, suspect in custody

The latest education news updates from EdSource. → Read More

An 8th grader knows a lot about Millard Fillmore, no, really, he does

The latest education news updates from EdSource. → Read More

UPDATE: Gun and ammunition found in second grader’s desk at Sacramento school

The latest education news updates from EdSource. → Read More

CA Chancellor Oakley backs college leaders after criticisms for denouncing Capitol violence

Community College Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley stepped up support for campus leaders urging them to not back down after some faced sharp attacks to statements condemning Capitol violence. → Read More

East Bay woman sues fertility doc for ‘medical rape’: using his own sperm

A Livermore woman filed a federal lawsuit claiming a fertility doctor she and her husband turned to in the 1970s, used his own sperm to father their two children. → Read More

East Bay woman sues fertility doc for ‘medical rape’: using his own sperm

A Livermore woman filed a federal lawsuit claiming a fertility doctor she and her husband turned to in the 1970s, used his own sperm to father their two children. → Read More

CHP reports fatal accident on Hwy 101 in San Jose

SAN JOSE – The California Highway Patrol is reporting a fatal accident on Highway 101 at McKee Road. The crash occurred at 8:33 p.m. in the southbound lanes, according to the CHP. The Santa Clara County Coroner’s personnel were later dispatched to Regional Medical Center, where an inured person was taken. No further details were immediately available. Check back for updates → Read More

On 10-year anniversary of unsolved killing, Berkeley police offer $50,000 reward

Celedón and his fiance, Amber Nelson, were walking home from a night of dancing to celebrate his birthday when they were confronted by two robbers. Celedón was shot and Nelson was punched in the fa… → Read More

Bay Area wildfires: Firefighters fear dry lightning, erratic winds could drive blazes

“We make a gain in one place and we have a loss in another,” said a battalion chief working to protect Healdsburg from the advancing Walbridge Fire. → Read More

Alleged killer drove from East Bay to Texas over possible gaming feud murder-suicide

A suspect allegedly drove from Pleasanton to Texas to fatally shot a man over an online gaming dispute. → Read More

San Jose Police releases internal records after media lawsuit filed

The records released the police department are considered public under a new police transparency law. At most, some of the files offered modest new glimpses into long-adjudicated police shootings t… → Read More

Nursing homes: Coronavirus cases remain high, experts are critical of tardy test results

“We’re still seeing these outbreaks,” said Pat McGinnis, executive director of the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, a San Francisco non-profit that advocates for impr… → Read More

Nursing homes: Coronavirus cases remain high, experts are critical of tardy test results

“We’re still seeing these outbreaks,” said Pat McGinnis, executive director of the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, a San Francisco non-profit that advocates for impr… → Read More

Truong Tien Dat, former South Vietnamese Senator and San Jose real estate broker, dies

In 1974, fed up with corruption in President Nguyen Van Thieu’s regime, Dat publically named six high ranking officials – including the president’s top personal aide and several g… → Read More