Prunedale News

Detectives arrested one man in connection with  Wednesday's fatal shooting , and say the violence was gang-motivated, the Sheriff's Office announced Thursday afternoon.

A man inappropriately touched a 32-year-old woman walking an infant in a stroller near 38th Avenue and the railroad tracks on Sunday, according to the Sheriff's Office.

A man and a woman from Prunedale were linked to three recent vehicle burglaries on San Andreas Road, deputies said.

Three hit-and-run crashes and two police chases happened in Salinas and Prunedale during Memorial Day weekend, one which involved a 14-year-old girl being hit in a crosswalk.A The girl was walking in a crosswalk on North Main Street near Bernal Drive when she run over by a speeding driver at 8:40 p.m., police Cmdr.

Walking through Roaring Camp Sunday was like stepping into a different era, with the sounds of musket and cannon fire filling the air and campsites and other trappings of the 1860s dotting the landscape.

A 25-year-old Monterey man's attempt to make a U-turn on Highway 101 in Prunedale likely caused a three-vehicle crash just before Wednesday's afternoon rushhour.

It started around 9:30 p.m. on El Camino Real. The barn owner said he was woken up by a family member that said his barn was on fire.

Four persons were injured, one of them seriously, in a collision between two Toyota Priuses on Highway 101 at Pesante Road in Prunedale on Wednesday.

A crash that left four people with serious injuries has caused evening rush hour traffic to gridlock in all directions on Highway 101 in Prunedale.

I have been fishing for salmon a lot lately, and all of that time on the boat leaves me rocking... Recycling of the oil will be free of charge at the Monterey County Public Works Maintenance Yard at 1171 San Miguel Canyon Road in Royal Oaks.

Southbound Highway 101 at Orchard Lane is shutdown as the California Highway Patrol tries to clean up a multiple car accident.

Prunedale Grange 388 and the Salinas Valley League of Women Voters invite the public to a candidate forum at 6:30 p.m. today at the Prunedale Grange, 17890 Moro Road.