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A teenager was shot Saturday night when he stepped outside of a home he was visiting.

A coalition of pollution-control and water-quality organizations has a message for Monterey County residents: don't flush those pills.

Salinas-based money manager Pete Andresen is running as a write-in candidate against Congressman Sam Farr, D-Carmel. Andresen, a Repubilcan, announced his candidacy today.

A shooting, two stabbings, an attempted kidnapping and other violent crimes kept Salinas police busy throughout the weekend.

Salinas police are searching for two men who attempted to kidnap a 16-year-old girl this weekend.

Carlos Mencia's stage persona is loud and aggressive. He jumps up there and he yells and you listen and if you think he's funny, you laugh.

Officers arrested four males Friday when a probation search turned up suspected stolen property from a nearby residence, the Salinas Police Department announced Saturday.

Rancho Cielo will hold a youth mentor training facilitated by Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Monterey County from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

A family emergency for a prosecutor has forced a delay in the preliminary hearing of three Salinas men accused in a double homicide in May.

Prosecutors on Friday charged a former Greenfield Elementary School principal with possession of child pornography.

The second suspect in a 2007 Salinas shooting that killed a man outside the Creekbridge development has pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and attempted murder along with enhancements for firing a ...

A man was shot after an argument in central Salinas Thursday night. Salinas police said a 22-year-old man was shot on Sherwood Drive shortly after 8:30 p.m. The victim was taken to a Bay Area hospital by ...

The public is invited to attend a candidates' forum on Thursday, October 9, 2008, at 5:30 p.m. in room 125 of Hartnell College's Performing Arts Center.

Salinas rock 'n' roll fans will get 'Two Tickets To Paradise' next month when singer Eddie Money comes to Oldtown.

The Alliance on Aging of Monterey County hosted a free seminar Wednesday. Organizers say the goal of the seminar was to help people address future concerns with Medicare benefits.

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"California Imagination" is the theme of the eighth annual California Arts Day on Friday, October 3, and to celebrate Artistas Unidos - Artists United will present special programming for the First Fridays Art ...

Acebino Mendoza lay in the shade of a palm tree in a park adjacent to Cesar Chavez Library in east Salinas on Tuesday, teaching himself English on the cool grass as his son did homework inside.

A "high risk" convicted sex offender wanted on a $100,000 warrant was arrested at a Salinas motel Tuesday morning, the Sheriff's Office reported.

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