Watsonville News

Armed robbers held up an Airport Boulevard convenience store Tuesday afternoon, the latest in a spate of gunpoint heists of grocers, gas stations and a jewelry store in the city.

A monthlong investigation led to the arrest of Salvador Murillo Baltazar, 29, on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine and cocaine for sale, police said.

A statewide parks and recreation group is honoring the city with an excellence award for a summer youth program aimed at reducing obesity.

One man died and another was airlifted to a hospital after a gang-related shooting shattered a Castroville birthday party Sunday, Monterey County sheriff's deputies said.

WATSONVILLE, Calif.- Surviellence video from John's Jewelers earlier this week, shows two masked men entered the store with weapons and took virtually everything.

About 8:13 p.m. Thursday, Watsonville police say Officer Brian Fulgoni saw a teenager riding a bicycle at Stanford Street and Monte Vista Avenue while violating several state and city codes.

Traffic officers from across the Central Coast gathered in Watsonville on Tuesday.

Pusateri, who at one time was a Salinas motorcycle officer, competed in motorcycle racing as a "novice" in his free time, Villegas said.

UPDATE: 7:40 a.m. The Monterey County Sheriff's Office released the following details this morning: At 11:11 p.m. Sunday, on the 8800 block of Vista de Tierra Circle in Castroville, deputies responding to reports of gunshots found a man lying shot in the road and a second man lying next to the door of a housing unit, surrounded by family.

Watsonville police arrested a Salinas man who they say shot and killed a 19-year-old man more than 10 months ago during a family gathering in a community park.

Two men stabbed in a fight at Freedom and Airport boulevards were flown over the hill Saturday, according to emergency dispatchers.

Nearly a year after a Hollister teenager was gunned down on a basketball court in the Apple Hill neighborhood, police arrested a Salinas man they identified as the killer.

Soroptimists provided spa treatments and lunch for Pajaro Valley Shelter Services clients during an annual Saturday of Service in March.

The long-standing battle over fluoride in Watsonville's water supply has been renewed with the introduction of a grant that could get the project started.

Fluoridation of the city's water supply appears inevitable. The City Council, on a 4-3 vote late Tuesday, rejected signing off on a nearly $2 million grant contract for construction of a fluoridation system, but agreed unanimously to establish an ad hoc committee to finalize details of the agreement.

The Watsonville teenager who robbed a Carmel bank in June received a suspended three-year sentence Wednesday from Superior Court Judge Russell D. Scott, meaning he won't serve any time in state prison if adheres to all terms of a five-year probation.

The father of a Watsonville man arrested last month when sheriff's deputies seized marijuana and a cache of guns from the family's Larkin Valley Road property has been charged with a crime related to the raid, the District Attorney's Office reported.

Watsonville residents won't be drinking fluoridated water yet. On a 4-3 vote, the City Council decided not to accept a $2 million grant to pay for fluoridation until details of a contract with the California Dental Association Foundation are finalized.

Four Watsonville gang members are behind bars after they allegedly beat and stabbed the brother of a man charged with killing another member of the gang last year, police reported.

Tuesday's storm caused a large tree to fall in Watsonville that knocked down almost two miles of power lines.