Monthly Archives: March 2014

Rich sauce drizzling over marshmallows and glistening under bright kitchen lights smells like chocolate – pounds of chocolate – as it falls into the silver bowl in Gilroyan Rosalind Farotte's hands.

After night falls in Gilroy, it's dark along the entire paved pathway directly across the entrance of Christmas Hill Park and on the lighted softball field. The light fixtures are functional, but the connecting wires have been gutted by criminals.

A 20-year-old woman died after a Union Pacific cargo train collided with her vehicle in Morgan Hill Wednesday night, according to police. Authorities have not released the identity of the woman who succumbed to major injuries resulting from the head-on collision which happened about 9:10 p.m., according to a press release from Morgan Hill police. According to witnesses and evidence at the scene, the woman was traveling westbound in a 1990s model SUV on East Central Avenue from Butterfield Boulevard, police said. The woman - the only occupant of the vehicle - drove over a curb, onto the sidewalk and onto the railroad tracks. A Union Pacific train, bound north for San Jose, struck the SUV head-on at about 40 to 50 mph, police said. The driver was trapped in the vehicle until she was extracted by Morgan Hill Fire personnel at the scene, authorities said. She was transported to an a area trauma hospital by CalStar, where she died of injuries suffered in the collision. Police said alcohol or drugs have not been ruled out as a factor for the driver of the SUV, but a final determination will not be made until toxicology test results are completed. MHPD and Union Pacific Police continue to investigate the accident, according to the press release. Updates on this incident, including the identity of the SUV driver, will be posted as they are available. Anyone with information about this incident can contact MHPD at (408) 779-2101. 

When Korean War Veteran Joe Baldonado was posthumously awarded the military’s highest honor, it was only fitting that his younger brother, Charles, was at the White House to accept it.

They come in the night or early morning, forcing open windows, sneaking into classrooms and escaping with valuable laptops and projectors at Gilroy Unified School District's Brownell Middle School.

The San Jose man who allegedly rammed his car into three sheriff’s patrol cars and prompted a deputy to fire three rounds is scheduled to enter a plea next month, authorities said.

Local members of a Patriots group are planning a demonstration rally on Cinco de Mayo in front of the Live Oak High School campus both before and after school to protest the latest court ruling affirming the rights of school officials to ban students from wearing American flag shirts on campus on May 5 in 2010.

A Hollister teen was declared dead Sunday evening after he slipped off rocks and fell into the water off Panther Beach in Santa Cruz, according to authorities.