Monthly Archives: March 2012

Dennis Leffew, the San Jose man who was recently charged with vehicular manslaughter in the Nov. 6 crash that later resulted in the death of Gavilan College basketball player Andrel Gaines, turned himself in to police Monday and is being held on $250,000 bail in the San Mateo County Jail, according to Karen Guidotti, chief deputy with the San Mateo County DA's Office.

Gilroy's got it: Pride – and promise.

Working through its most trying stretch of the season, Gavilan baseball halted its three-game Coast Conference losing skid with a 3-2 victory over Cabrillo on Thursday in Gilroy.

The plea hearing for the Gilroy woman who has been charged on two counts of murder for allegedly driving drunk and causing a Jan. 14 car accident that killed her husband and daughter was once again postponed Thursday afternoon.

The answers to the following questions should help summarize what’s happened so far in the Sierra LaMar investigation, inform how the community can help, and provide some useful  background to the case.

Used condoms and an empty handcuff box were found Thursday by a volunteer searcher at the west end of Palm Avenue, about a mile from missing teen Sierra LaMar’s bus stop in Morgan Hill, though Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said Thursday night that “it’s possibly nothing.”

On Monday, the Gilroy City Council will consider a new, more specific version of the city's entertainment ordinance that could relax regulations  on dancing downtown. 

The plea hearing for the five suspects accused of killing Tara Romero, 14, and trying to kill three other teens Nov. 4, 2011 was postponed.

Led by athlteic director Jon Sanchez, St Mary’s School held its annual Sports Awards ceremony for its winter basketball program.

Audiences at Morgan Hill’s CineLux Cinemas last weekend were full of glee for the world premiere of the movie “Gleeful,” a musical comedy filmed entirely in the South Valley and featuring a cast of more than a hundred young actors from the region.