On April 10 of this year, after Paulino Guzman III’s stepmother begged the man who admitted killing Guzman to tell the family where they could find his body, and after the judge hearing the case also asked the defendant sitting before him to do the right thing for the sake of the grieving fa…

Just after 10:30pm on Monday, Aug. 12, a familiar sound of Car Week was heard ringing through Del Monte Forest: the loud “vroom” of a sports car speeding along the curvy roads of Pebble Beach.

Maybe he was bored. Or maybe tagging along with his parent who works for the Carmel Bach Festival wasn't his idea of a fun activity during summer vacation.

Two Monterey Peninsula men have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of Tremain Calloway in Seaside two months ago.

A 27-year-old woman pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to driving under the influence and causing a car crash that killed three people and injured a fourth, all members of the same family, on May 31.

Stewart Napier will be sentenced to prison for seven years for his part in a car wreck in December 2018 that killed one man.

Margot McNally will spend four years in prison for a 2018 car crash in Carmel Valley that killed her passenger and severely injured another driver.

A 32-year-old father of two was shot and killed while driving through Seaside on Tuesday afternoon.

Joe Hunt, 25, was a free spirit, says his dad, Bob Hunt. School and the 9-to-5 was never for Joe, nor would it ever be. He left his home in New Hampshire in January 2018, with nothing but his blue backpack and a tent. He bought his own Greyhound Bus ticket to California, a place he always dr…

A fully loaded navy-blue camping backpack stood upright in the shoulder of northbound Highway 1 in Moss Landing early Saturday morning, March 23, but it wasn't enough to alarm passing motorists.

The body of a man was found inside a burned out unit of Army housing in the 400 block of Brittany Road in Seaside the afternoon of March 7, the Presidio of Monterey announced in a press release on Friday, March 8.

For the second day in a row, threats of violence have interrupted operations at Monterey County government facilities, as law enforcement officials search for the person responsible for phoning in bomb threats as well as an active shooter threat.

A Salinas neighborhood was on edge for much of Friday afternoon as members of Monterey County's Crisis Intervention Team negotiated with a young woman who'd barricaded herself in her car.

Five Salinas police officers responded within minutes on Friday night, Feb. 1, to a 911 call from the Safeway store in Creekbridge on Constitution Boulevard. The caller reported a man was brandishing a gun at customers, and police quickly found 37-year-old Guadalupe Aguirre Espinoza in the p…

As Monterey County government and cannabis growers work to fit the pieces of taxation and regulation together in the new era of legalization, one thing is clear to everyone: Enforcement of black market cannabis is an important piece of the puzzle in order for legal growers—and in turn the co…

Police departments all across the U.S. and Canada responded to dozens of bomb threats on Thursday, some resulting in evacuations of buildings. Two such threats reached Salinas; police responded to both locations, and found no evidence of a credible threat at either location—nor did police an…

One person is dead after a 25-year-old Pacific Grove man, allegedly under the influence of drugs, crashed his truck into a small sedan on Highway 1 just south of Imjin Parkway around 5:30pm on Wednesday evening.

Four years after an early-morning stabbing that left a young father dead, three men have been charged with his murder.

A 33-year-old inmate is dead after he was found stabbed multiple times on Monday evening.

Victor Cabrera will die in prison after Monterey County Superior Court Judge Julie Culver sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole on Oct. 4 for strangling his girlfriend Roshni Singh to death at her Marina home in 2008.

In early 2014, a series of deadly shootings and a gruesome stabbing struck fear into Monterey Peninsula residents.

What started out as an atypical call to the Monterey Police Department on Saturday night took a turn for the even less typical—and more violent—when a police officer and two suspects exchanged gunfire in a Monterey neighborhood. 

The impact of a fatal DUI crash on Carmel Valley Road a little over two weeks ago continues to reverberate around the valley.

Six days after a two-car collision on Carmel Valley Road, a 16-year-old teen has died from her injuries.

The Monterey Peninsula College Child Development Center was evacuated just after 2:30pm on Wednesday, July 18, and the college's upper parking lot blocked off after a worker found a possible pipe bomb, according to the Monterey Police Department.

Early in the morning, before the sun rose on Saturday, July 14, six suspects made what police call a coordinated entry onto a cannabis farm south of Salinas.

In 2014, California voters passed Proposition 47 easily, on the promise of saving hundreds of millions of dollars a year and keeping non-violent drug offenders out of jail. 

The Wicked Witch of the West famously used pretty—but poisonous—poppies to put Dorothy and her band of friends to sleep in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. 

In 1990, 14-year-old Christy Pina's body was discovered in an artichoke field near Castroville. Investigators found multiple stab wounds, and determined she had been strangled and raped before she died in the brutal killing. 

On the morning of Feb. 15, 2017, Monterey County Sheriff’s Deputies were called out to a Moss Landing residence on Trafton Road for a disturbance call that they soon discovered was in fact a disturbing homicide.

After almost two weeks of testimony that included a heart-wrenching and horrific tale of abuse from a little girl who survived torture and the killings of her younger siblings, a Monterey County Superior Court jury took just about an hour to find Gonzalo Curiel Jr. guilty in the murders of 6…

Stories of Muslim women wearing a hijab being attacked, or men identified as Muslim suffering assaults are not uncommon, and FBI statistics confirm that reported attacks were higher in 2016 than at their peak more than a decade ago after 9/11.

An employee at Tiny Tots University, a preschool at Seaside's Oldemeyer Center that is run by the city, is being investigated for inappropriately touching a child.

Lolita Garcia could have raised a few eyebrows among employees when she showed up to her Monterey nonprofit that helps special needs children driving a Maserati and carrying a Luis Vuitton handbag.

The executive director of a Monterey nonprofit charged with helping children with special needs was dipping into the group's funds to the tune of $675,000 between 2013 and 2015, according to the Monterey County District Attorney's Office.

The former CEO of the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, Sam Downing, died by suicide at his Carmel home the evening of Thursday, March 22, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office confirms. He was 73.

A Seaside man will spend decades in prison after he pleaded no contest yesterday to killing to his mother and attacking his brother in a drug-fueled rage two weeks before Christmas in 2016.

Schools everywhere have been on edge since a high school shooting in Parkland, Florida left 17 people dead, and new threats—whether real or made up—are spreading.

Sonia Cano is now in jail for one year for felony hit and run in the death of Salinas transient Alan Russell Ellis, 52, on Dec. 10.

Two men were shot and killed in unrelated incidents in Soledad and Salinas over the weekend of March 3 and 4.

A torrent of mass shootings in the country has made school violence seem commonplace, but any violence involving children remains shocking.

What Salinas Police thought was a disturbance on Super Bowl Sunday on Kern Street turned out to be a dramatic rescue of a 14-year-old girl by her family from the clutches of two men officials say trafficked at least eight girls between the ages of 14 and 18.

It’s a spin on a locked room murder mystery, except in this case there’s only one suspect—an inmate at the Salinas Valley State Prison who allegedly stabbed his cellmate.

Convicted sex trafficker Jerry Stringer had one job to do at his Feb. 8 sentencing in Monterey Superior Court: say he's sorry.

Superior Court Judge Julie Culver's intentions were clear in a court appearance on Feb. 2: she never wants Alfred Powell, 62, to leave prison in his lifetime.

A Monterey County Probation Department officer may soon be on probation herself—even reporting to the very office where she's worked for nine years.