Monterey County News

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office has identified a suspect in last month's attack on a young woman who was jogging on a path outside Watsonville.

The Board of Directors of the new LGBT Diversity Centers of Monterey County is seeking a qualified volunteer to serve as treasurer.

Whether Louis A. Salazar will stand trial for the 1977 murder of an elderly Aromas woman is a decision to be announced Dec.

The Monterey County Sheriff's Office is collecting newly purchased teddy bears and stuffed animals to donate to needy children who may not otherwise receive a gift for the holidays or who need to be comforted during a traumatic event.

A former Salinas softball manager convicted of giving alcohol to minors in 2007 is in jail again, Greenfield police confirmed Wednesday.

I'd be interested, even honored, to see a mountain lion one day. But only from a distance - a vast, vast distance.

The state's political ethics commission found there is not enough evidence to move forward with a probe into an alleged campaign contribution that a Peninsula developer claimed Supervisor David Potter failed to report.

The widow of Army veteran Kuaea Peneueta received the loudest applause Sunday afternoon after she thanked those responsible for naming her husband one of six "Veterans of the Year." "I just want to say thank you," an emotional Ailini Peneueta, 66, of Marina, along with her husband's brother, Tito, told the crowd on behalf of Kuaea Peneueta.

Rumors and innuendoes are circulating about the purchase of and the operational accomplishments of the Monterey County Sheriff's Office Star 1 helicopter.

The California Highway Patrol says it's seeking an unknown number of motorists whose vehicles struck a Seaside transient Thursday night in a fatal case of hit-and-run. The CHP said 50-year-old David Armstrong was walking on the far-right, northbound lane of Highway 1, just north of Lightfighter Drive.

Monterey County, Calif.-Lines have been long across the country and on the Central Coast for the H1N1 vaccine, but health officials are saving the shots for specific groups.

The Monterey County Sheriffs Office said a 15-year-old North Monterey County High School student has been detained, accused of bringing a toy gun on campus.

Monterey County sheriff's deputies are looking for a Salinas man who they say was involved in a home-invasion robbery in Carmel Valley and other cases in the area.

Monterey County sheriff's deputies said they may know who posted death-threat fliers in San Ardo, but without hard evidence, they have not made any arrest.

Supervisor hopeful Ed Mitchell of Prunedale said Tuesday he complained to the state's highest law enforcement office that Monterey County is failing to enforce fire prevention laws for north county developments.

Despite a recent delay, prosecutors expect to reach a settlement with a man known as the "No Face Bandit." Peter Klein, 50, of Aromas faces dozens of federal and state charges stemming from a year-long spree of robberies in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties - including four Gilroy banks - according to prosecutors.

On Saturday, a golden eagle was found lying in a field in Soledad and reported to The SPCA for Monterey County's Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center.

A recent Herald editorial criticized the District Attorney's Office for releasing to a witness a taped conversation between a murder defendant/informant and a police officer.

Monterey County Health officials hope to vaccinate residents most likely to become severely ill with swine flu when they begin inoculation clinics this weekend.

A new roadway cutting through Toro County Park is under consideration as a Southern California developer seeks to create access to the site his proposed 870-acre housing project nearby.