Monterey County News

Jesus, played by Andrew Hernandez, carries the cross followed by Roman soldiers played by Neo Bautista, left, Udesimo Lucas and Javier Montoya as the eighth-grade class of Madonna del Sasso School performs the Stations of the Cross in a Good Friday celebration in Salinas on Friday.

Zabdiel Solis Arciga was convicted by a jury of killing his 8-year-old son July 27, 2010, as he led California State University Monterey Bay police on a car chase on Highway 1, prosecutors said.

On March 26, humane investigators from the SPCA served a search warrant at a residence off Castroville Boulevard in Prunedale.

SEASIDE/MONTEREY >> Detectives with the Monterey Peninsula violence-narcotics unit arrested one man and seized weapons and more than one pound of methamphetamine Thursday, officers said.

A deputy attempted to stop a 1992 Cadillac at 8:52 p.m. Wednesday at Porter Drive and San Juan Road in Watsonville after it nearly collided with oncoming traffic and the driver was suspected of driving under the influence.

The Pacific Grove Wildflower Show once more brings more than 600 native species and varieties in all their springtime glory to the Museum of Natural History this weekend.

Don Gonzalez has driven a lot of miles since he got behind the wheel of one of Monterey County Free Libraries bookmobiles 17 years ago.

WITH A MONTEREY COUNTY MAN WHO DETECTIVES SAY HAS TIES TO A VIOLENT MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL ..

Back in February, I wrote about Gateway Center of Monterey County and its drive for used shoes.

Monterey >> A battle between the Monterey Peninsula and the Salinas Valley over contaminated Salinas-area runoff water appears headed to the state water board.

The nation's largest water company was fined $389,000 for illegally shipping arsenic-laced sludge to a landfill.

Salinas >> The SPCA for Monterey County is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who shot and killed 12 federally protected domestic ducks and wounded three others on this week in Salinas.

Monterey >> Sheriff candidate Mike Richards was fired from his post as commander in the Monterey County Sheriff's Office in 2012 but the reasons why will likely remain confidential.

SEASIDE >> A man was shot and killed in Seaside early Wednesday, police said, and detectives are asking the public for any information about the slaying.

A former school bus driver has been sentenced to a year in state prison for touching two female students in Monterey and threatening to rape one of them, according to the Monterey County District Attorney's Office.

Annette Banda was charged in January with 18 counts of lewd or lascivious acts involving a child ages 14 or 15, 18 counts of annoying or molesting a child under the age of 18, and four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with someone under the age of 18. Of those, 22 counts are felonies.

Nearly a month after an embezzlement charge against Peter Wise was dismissed, the owner of Oldtown Salinas' music store says business remains in a slump.

U.S. Air Force Capt. Nicolas Aquino was tackled and handcuffed at his own house in Carmel because a Monterey County sheriff's deputy thought he was a burglar.

A hearing in a lawsuit filed against the Monterey County Board of Supervisors suggesting the board repeatedly violated the state's Open Meetings laws last year was continued Tuesday.

Myers, chief of police in both Pacific Grove and Seaside, was the target of no-confidence votes last year by police associations in both cities.