Salinas News

Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo has announced that 47-year-old Jesus Vargas Espinoza of Castroville, pled no contest to killing 10 month-old Angelle Negron.

Homeland Security Investigators said 58-year old David J. Stevens is the alleged "John Doe" child predator sought in a nationwide manhunt.

SALINAS, Calif.- An investigation that started overseas, turns into a nationwide manhunt bringing federal, state and local authorities on the Central Coast together, to arrest an alleged child predator.

Central Coast News has learned from family members that 48-year old Darrell Whitehouse was the person killed in the motorcycle accident Thursday afternoon along Sanborn in Salinas.

California Highway Patrol is responding to an accident along southbound 101 and Espinosa Road in Salinas.

Officers from the Salinas Police Violence Suppression Unit served a search warrant at a home in Salinas after getting a tip about drugs sales.

Patty Wagstaff is a Hollywood stunt pilot, three-time U.S. aerobatic champion, inductee to the National Aviation Hall of Fame and favorite on the air show circuit.

Local residents will get a chance next month to weigh in on a state water board study on the critical water rights issue at the center of the Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project.

A 14-year-old boy is in "very unstable condition" at a Salinas hospital after being stabbed in the neck about 4:20 p.m. Friday, police said.

Movement expected to remain about the same. Trading moderate. Prices 36s and 40s lower, others generally unchanged.

After a nationwide manhunt, authorities have released the identity of accused child pornography producer " John Doe ." U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations say they took David J. Stevens, 58, of Salinas, California, in custody on Wednesday, around 24 hours after the information was released to the media.

SALINAS, Calif.- A group of local elected officials with a history of tension still isn't seeing eye to eye.

Keith Decker , Kristin Brownstone , James Brady , from left, in MPC Theatre CompanyA*s production of Moss Hart's A'Light Up The Sky.A' Paper Wing Theatre Company presents Rob Foster's "Mr Bruce, Do You Swear?" Opens at 8p.m. Friday, May 17; continues at 8p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through June 1 at the Gallerie Theatre, Paper Wing Theatre Company, ... (more)

Monterey County supervisors urged water resources agency officials to hurry up with a plan for using Salinas River water under a permit that is in danger of being revoked.

Harden Middle School seventh-grader Sebastian Barajas, left, and other students watch as energy passes through the air from a tesla coil to light up a fluorescent light at the Hartnell College Engineering and Physics Club booth during Friday's Career Extravaganza in Salinas.

A Monterey woman was sentenced last week to 14 months in prison, and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine along with $123,463 in restitution for tax evasion.

Monterey County hospital administrators cautioned that figures released by the federal government last week, showing vast disparities in the amount facilities charge for the same services, can be deceiving.

Louella Freeman, Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital's chief nursing officer, stands with Salinas Valley nurse John Silveira, who was named Nurse of the Year in a ceremony on Monday.

SALINAS, Calif.- Tatum's Garden, Salinas's first park built for people of all abilities, officially opened in April, but a colorful windmill flower campaign is kicking off across yards of all shapes and sizes, including the mayor of Salinas' front lawn Monday.

Police are looking for Gerrell Maurice Bledsoe for a felony warrant for a strong arm robbery.