King City News

Sen. Jeff Denham's Senate Bill 130 has passed both houses of the Legislature and is on its way today to the Governor's desk.

HOLLISTER A local official is writing a letter to the Governor's Office of Emergency Services asking the county to be named a "disaster area" for drought conditions present over the past three years.

A year after California banned the practice, talking on a hand-held cell phone while driving appears to be a hard habit to break for many motorists, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

A Soledad resident died Monday morning after he fell off his horse and hit his head, Monterey County Sheriff's deputies said.

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The District Attorney's Office filed murder charges Thursday against two Salinas Valley teenagers accused in the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old King City girl and wounding her brother.

The Monterey County Superior Court will be expanding its Self-Help Center services to the King City courthouse on the second Friday starting on July 10.

It was a hot first day of summer. Thermometers hit 99 in Salinas. Smoke from a fire burning to the south, the Indians Fire, floated through town.

Synopsis: VICTIM REPORTED HER STEP-GRANDFATHER HELD HER TO THE GROUND TO REMOVE A RIBBON FROM HER LEFT RING FINGER.

KING CITY, Calif.- A local soldier was buried with full military honors today in King City.

A day after pleading not guilty to charges that he murdered an 11-year-old girl who was watching a soccer game, a King City teenager was back before a juvenile court judge on Thursday.

A 17-year-old King City gang member has pleaded not guilty to the shooting death of a young girl sitting in the bleachers at a high school girls soccer match.

Ezekiel Lopez-Figueroa pleaded not guilty in court today regarding a Dec. 2 shooting in King City that led to the death of 11-year-old Esther Rubio.

KING CITY BAILOUT... A $13 million loan to bail out King City Joint Union High School District is slowly making its way through Sacramento.

A 57-year-old motorcyclist died in a crash on Fort Hunter Liggett at 8:55 a.m. Thursday after losing control of his vehicle, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A 17-year-old boy will face charges of murder and attempted murder as an adult in the death of an 11-year-old girl who was shot during a King City soccer match in December.

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - The military says a Fort Campbell soldier from California has died from a non-combat injury in Afghanistan.

Fire crews are responding to a vegetation fire in the King City area. The fire first struck up around 6:10 this evening off Metz Road and Hwy 146.

A local version of "Flip This House" is coming to Monterey County. Supervisors Tuesday approved an agreement with several cities hardest hit by the housing market downturn to buy foreclosed houses and sell them to lower-income buyers.

The new members are Mr. Anthony M. Cosentino, Mr. Guillermo Nieto, Sr. and Mr. Peter K. Shah.