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One of the most (if not the most) asked question of a real estate agent is regarding how the market is doing.  The answer depends largely on the intent behind the question.  If you are simply making conversation, you may get more of an answer than you counted on.

A South Bay caregiver was sentenced this week to jail for stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and other valuables from her elderly clients, according to a press release from the Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney’s Office.

A hearing for the Morgan Hill man accused of sexually assaulting multiple small children under his care at a YMCA facility was continued Tuesday at South County Courthouse in Morgan Hill. Nicolas Lhermine, 20, appeared at the hearing wearing handcuffs and an inmate’s jumpsuit. He remains in custody at Santa Clara County Jail without bail on charges of lewd and lascivious acts with a child younger than 12, oral copulation on a child younger than 10, possession of child pornography and production of child pornography. All the charges are related to five victims identified since his arrest in July, according to authorities. Lhermine is accused of making inappropriate sexual contact with or taking illegal obscene photographs of the victims. Judge Alfonso Fernandez set Lhermine’s next hearing for 9 a.m. March 7 at South County Courthouse.Four of the alleged child victims were age 7 or younger at the time of the assaults - which occurred last summer - and were victimized by Lhermine while they were under his care a child care program at Paradise Valley Elementary School, according to investigators. The child care program was operated by the YMCA, for whom Lhermine worked for four years before his arrest. The youngest of the victims is 3 years old, authorities said. The fifth alleged victim is a 17-year-old girl of whom investigators found nude pictures on Lhermine’s mobile phone, according to police. The girl was not affiliated with the YMCA program, but Lhermine knew her. Lhermine was arrested by Morgan Hill police July 12, when a 6-year-old girl under his care at the YMCA program told her parents and investigators that Lhermine forced her to engage in a sex act in the bathroom at the day care site, authorities said. During the initial investigation, police found the pictures of the 17-year-old girl on his phone. During a follow-up investigation which included assistance from YMCA staff to reach out to the parents of all children who had ever been under Lhermine’s care at the YMCA, authorities identified three more alleged female victims - ages 3, 5 and 7. Lhermine faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, according to authorities.The suspect worked as a child care aide at the YMCA day care facility during the alleged assaults, and has held numerous positions - including youth soccer coach and child care at other YMCA facilities - in his four years of employment at the YMCA, according to authorities.

Love can have different meanings depending on who you ask: There is motherly or fatherly love, there’s the love two longtime friends feel for each other and some even claim to love their pets. But it’s the love felt when stomachs quiver, cheeks flush and hearts pound that we celebrate today. It can begin with a shy glance, a smile, an email or a young love lost that eventually comes full circle.

She was late. Five more minutes and I was going to leave. We hadn't spoken on the phone yet; we only communicated through eHarmony, the dating website that we met through.

I was coming out of a traumatic and horrible marriage that I could never imagine ever going through again and it was almost two years since my divorce. My cousin came to visit and decided she wanted me to set up a profile on MySpace, since back then it was pretty popular. She set it up for me, and I had no intention of ever attempting to go online. She noticed because it was four days and I still never tried. On her last day she sat with me and showed me how to - now these were her words - “look for some fine ass dudes.” To make her happy, I did.

Having grown up in Morgan Hill, I was pretty sure that I knew everyone my age. So I was quite surprised when my brother told me he was going to introduce me to someone who was my age, and even went to Live Oak at the same time I was there. I was running late after having been out running errands with my parents in Gilroy, and ended up meeting up with them in front of what was then the Inn at Morgan Hill. David and I had a great time together, but I was flying back to Florida (where I was attending college) in a week, and was not even thinking of relationships at the time.

“All I wanted to do was cross-country ski!” says my husband of 27 years, after my best friend set us up on a blind date when I lived in the San Bernardino mountains in Southern California and had separated from my first husband. Little did Garry know what he was getting himself into!

Bob, a California boy, was assigned to attend the Microwave Radio Officer’s course at Fort Monmouth, N.J. He decided to go to church, so he looked in the Yellow Pages. Since he didn't know the meaning of Methodist and Presbyterian, he chose the Christian Church of Colts Neck.

He was single, youthful and determined. An entrepreneur with grocery stores in southern Santa Cruz County. She was no less driven nor spirited in her drive to succeed. She was younger than he was. He was the boss. She was a new hire. He was said to be hard-boiled on the outside, softer on the inside. She was strong-willed, stubborn and rarely backed down. He was a pillar of strength. She was on fire with ambition. It was 1983 and the their chemistry was evident from the start.