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Police arrested a man early Sunday morning who allegedly hit another man in the head with a shovel following a drunken altercation, according to authorities. Morgan Hill police responded to the 90 block of Bisceglia Avenue about 12:15 a.m. Sunday and located the adult male victim who had been struck in the face and head with a shovel, according to a press release from MHPD. The victim was transported to San Jose Regional Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Officers canvassed the south Morgan Hill neighborhood and gained information from a witness that led to the arrest of Juan Martinez, 24 of Morgan Hill. Martinez had been hiding on the roof a nearby residence, police said. During the investigation police determined that Martinez and the victim had gotten into a physical altercation after a night of “heavy drinking,” authorities said. Martinez was booked at Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, police said. Anyone with information about this incident can contact MHPD at (408) 779-2101, or the anonymous tip line at (408) 947-7867. 

One of Morgan Hill’s most popular public outdoor event facilities is about to get a new name, just in time to welcome one of the South Bay’s – and the nation’s – most familiar faces in rock ‘n’ roll, according to event organizers.

Morgan Hill residents will no longer be seeing a surcharge on their water bills for perchlorate cleanup - a monthly charge that some years climbed as high as 15 percent of each customer’s water usage invoice.

After 70 years of serving low-income, high risk youth in San Jose, the Boys & Girls Club of Silicon Valley is coming to South County and bringing with it an arsenal of beneficial programs.

Saint Louise Regional Hospital’s parent organization - the Daughters of Charity Health System - wants to turn the 24.5-acre DePaul Medical and Urgent Care Center campus into a senior housing development and build a new medical complex elsewhere in Morgan Hill that proponents say will expand health services in the area.

Local Chinese vegetable growers who faced potentially crippling penalties for what they called minor, accidental and one-time labor violations reached a settlement with state regulators last month.

Morgan Hill resident Scott Green, 57, said God saved the life of Olivia Zelony, 15, moments after she was ejected from a go-kart that crashed into a parked vehicle in their east Morgan Hill neighborhood on Thanksgiving day.

Igniting yet another controversy in the bitter battle over Navigator Schools’ attempt to open a new charter school in Morgan Hill, County Board of Education Trustee Joseph DiSalvo acknowledged that Morgan Hill Unified School District’s threat of a lawsuit “influenced” his vote.

Police arrested a 15-year-old Morgan Hill boy early Monday morning after he allegedly went on a late-night drunken vandalism spree that included painting a swastika on a church property.

Two Morgan Hill police officers were targeted by a pellet gun shooter while searching a creek bed for a missing person Thursday night, according to a press release from the MHPD. The officers were walking along the creek bed in the area of Ciolino and Spring avenues about 5:20 p.m. Thursday when someone shot at them from a backyard on Manor Court, police said. The shooter or shooters “nearly struck” both officers, the press release said. MHPD and Santa Clara County Sheriff’s deputies searched the area for the suspect or suspects but could not find them. The press release notes that shooting a pellet gun or any weapon that propels an object is a violation of Morgan Hill municipal code, and shooting it at another person is assault with a deadly weapon. Anyone with information about this incident can contact Morgan Hill police at (408) 779-2101, or the anonymous tip line at (408) 947-7867.