
Dai Sugano
Staff Photojournalist / Senior Multimedia Editor at The Mercury News
Staff photojournalist at The Mercury News @mercnews in San Jose, Calif., covering news in the Bay Area. Posts are of news, not endorsement.
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A sign for Gotion in Fremont, Calif., on Friday, June 20, 2025. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Dai Sugano TNS A Fremont battery company illegally employed Chinese workers, discriminated against non-Chinese employees, and secretly defied an order from the city to shut down its building, a lawsuit claims.
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A homeless encampment is seen along Coyote Creek Trail near Tully Road in San Jose, Calif., on Friday, March 1, 2024. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Dai Sugano TNS Santa Clara County’s homeless population has hit a record number despite local efforts that moved more than 8,000 people into permanent housing over the last few years, according to preliminary results from the county’s “point-in-time” count.
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Kelly Hensley, the owner of Pork Chop’s House of Reframe and a barber, in his barbershop and salon in downtown San Jose on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. Hensley offers gender affirming haircuts. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Dai Sugano TNS For Kelly Hensley — known by the moniker “Kelly the Barber” to many in the South Bay’s queer community — there has been something missing at every salon or barber shop for which he’s worked.
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A San Jose police patch on the uniform of an officer on Aug. 30, 2024. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Dai Sugano TNS SAN JOSE — A two-decade veteran officer with the San Jose Police Department is in jail after he was arrested this past week on suspicion of drunkenly firing his gun inside a Morgan Hill home, days after he was accused in Monterey County of assaulting his fiancée’s young daughter, authorities and records confirmed.
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Melany Moore, a board member of the Friends of Bear Creek Stables, stands at the gate leading to the stables in Los Gatos on June 4. Moore has been working with Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District board members to keep the stables open in the face of rising maintenance costs. Midpen suspended all camps, trainings, riding instruction and other equestrian events at Bear Creek in April but maintained horse boarding services.
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