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Julia Prodis Sulek

Julia Prodis Sulek has been a general assignment reporter for the Bay Area News Group, based in San Jose, her hometown, since the late 1990s. She has covered everything from plane crashes to presidential campaigns, murder trials to NBA Finals. In a video that went viral, she captured runners paying tribute to a World War II veteran. Her specialty is narrative storytelling.

Sheri Duffy looks at her childhood home at in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group)

Third attempt to repeal Prop. 19’s tax burden on inherited property aims for 2026 ballot

November 30, 2025 at 3:28 p.m.

The experience of a number of heirs highlights unsettling questions about Prop 19 that was narrowly approved by 51% of Californians in 2020: not only were many votes misled, but...

Visitors from Southern California stop to take a photograph at the entrance of the last remaining Sears store in the state at the Sunvalley Shopping Center on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in Concord, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)

Once a retail giant, the last Sears in California lingers in Concord. But for how long?

August 5, 2025 at 10:49 a.m.

Walking through the main entrance of the store at lunchtime this past week, clothing on sale racks was neatly displayed, but you could scan the entire main floor without seeing...

Angela Lin, the 29-year-old Google software engineer, in a photo from 2019 on an outdoor hike, something she loved to do. Lin was killed in a freak accident by a falling tree limb while hiking at Yosemite National Park with friends onJuly 19th. (Photo courtesy of the Lin Family)

Monterey Park couple’s 29-year-old daughter killed by falling branch while hiking in Yosemite

August 4, 2025 at 11:20 a.m.

Angela Lin's death exemplifies “that constant battle between safety and exploration.”

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Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks Jan. 24 to President Donald Trump at Los Angeles International Airport. Newsom’s clear hope is that his moves to resist Trump’s administration will give him the staying power to remain prominent until the 2028 election.

Newsom v. Trump: A defining moment for America or the California governor’s shot at presidency?

June 17, 2025 at 1:14 p.m.

Newsom’s barrage of attacks have left many demoralized Democrats hoping this is the anti-Trump leader they’ve been waiting for, but others wonder whether the governor has chosen the wrong battle.

Protests against the Trump administration’s funding cuts to higher education and attacks on free speech take place at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

UC Berkeley professors sought by Trump administration for signing Israel-Hamas petitions

April 4, 2025 at 8:49 a.m.

The subpoena follows similar antisemitism investigations at Stanford, Harvard, the University of Michigan and other colleges.

FILE – Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Planned Parenthood, March. 14, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. Harris says “everything is at stake” with reproductive health rights in November’s presidential election. Harris’ statements from segments of an MSNBC interview that aired Sunday, June 23, comes as the Biden campaign steps up its focus on contrasting Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s positions on the issue ahead of this Thursday’s presidential debate. (AP Photo/Adam Bettcher, File)

'No one tougher,' Kamala Harris’ supporters say as she looks to presidential campaign

July 22, 2024 at 7:34 a.m.

“My intention is to earn and win this nomination,” Harris says after she receives President Joe Biden's endorsement.

Scott Peterson appears via video call for a status hearing at San Mateo County Superior Court in Redwood City, Calif., Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (Photo by Andy Alfaro/ The Modesto Bee/ Pool)

Scott Peterson strikes out as judge denies nearly all requests for new DNA testing

May 30, 2024 at 10:55 a.m.

It was his last chance to try and prove someone else killed his wife and his unborn child.

Baby Phoenix Castro was only 3-months-old when she died of fentanyl and methamphetamine poisoning on May 13. (Courtesy of Edward Morillo)

Fentanyl found ‘all over’ baby Phoenix’s pink-flowered onesie; father denied bail on felony charge

November 21, 2023 at 10:59 a.m.

The mystery of how a 3-month-old South San Jose infant could have ingested and died of a fentanyl overdose was revealed in court, the same day the father was denied...

Laphonza Butler, President of EMILY’s List, speaks during an event in Washington, Friday, June 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Laphonza Butler, who will be sworn in Tuesday as California’s senator, called smart and savvy

October 3, 2023 at 2:34 p.m.

Her selection is causing conflict with some Black activists who had lobbied for longtime Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who is one of three congressional Democrats already running for the open seat,...

FILE – Dianne Feinstein, elected to finish out the term of the late San Francisco Mayor George R. Moscone, addresses the Board of Supervisors following her election in San Francisco Monday, Dec. 5, 1978. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California has died. Three people familiar with the situation confirmed her death to The Associated Press on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. She was 90.(AP Photo/Sal Veder, File)

Photos: Dianne Feinstein, the oldest sitting U.S. Senator, dies at 90

September 29, 2023 at 9:57 a.m.

Feinstein led San Francisco as its Mayor in the late 1970s and was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992.

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