Oct. 7 False tabs: At 3:52 a.m., deputies stopped a motorist at Prospect Road and Lawrence Expressway for expired registration. An investigation revealed a fraudulent registration tab was affixed to …
SANTA CRUZ — UC Santa Cruz police seized the cellphone of an undergraduate student plaintiff suing the university over two-week campus expulsions issued to more than 100 pro-Palestine protesters in …
SANTA CRUZ — A fraction of the two dozen men implicated in a statewide cannabis dispensary crime ring concentrated in Santa Cruz County pleaded guilty last week to charges. The …
It took two months of near daily conversations, of first cultivating trust and then love, before he walked into her trap. Two months of phone calls, text messages and video …
PALO ALTO — Police said they arrested two people after a demonstration at a shopping center Monday where a woman vandalized store fronts then attempted to flee in a car …
The four defendants who pleaded not guilty in the kidnapping and murder of Tushar Atre, a tech entrepreneur who lived in Pleasure Point. (Contributed) SANTA CRUZ — The start of …
SANTA CRUZ — A Hayward man was sentenced to a prison term of 68 years to life Friday for what a Santa Cruz judge described as an “egregious” and violent …
BY NIGEL DUARA | CalMatters Californians have gone back and forth on crime and punishment for years. In 1994, they voted for harsher criminal penalties and a three-strikes law. Twenty …
PALO ALTO — A 30-year-old East Palo Alto man was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of hitting an 11-month-old baby and sexually battering a 7-year-old boy while their mother left …
SANTA CRUZ — A 55-year-old former state hospital psychiatric patient is facing a 15-year prison term as part of a plea deal confirmed Wednesday. Steve Wooding After extended mental health …