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A 66-year man from Santa Clara died in a scooter crash Tuesday on Highway 25 in southern San Benito County, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A 3.2 magnitude earthquake hit near Hollister on Saturday morning.

A fire destroyed much of a San Juan Bautista area house Saturday afternoon, while one of the two occupants was treated for smoke inhalation.

Authorities have located the airplane that crashed in the Diablo Mountains and the deceased victim of the accident. 

Authorities are searching for a plane they believe crashed this week somewhere near New Idria, according to a statement from the San Benito County Sheriff’s Office.

About a year after the allegations went public, the Diocese of Monterey has settled a lawsuit involving suspicions that a former Mission San Juan Bautista priest in 2005 sexually abused a then 14-year-old member of the Madonna Del Sasso parish in Salinas.

The man accused in the 2007 killing of a 20-year-old Hollister woman contended in court Thursday he was incompetent for trial proceedings, and a judge gave him a week to return with a doctor’s recommendation on his mental status.

A car slammed into an 18-wheel tanker truck Monday morning, sending the Ford Mustang's driver to the hospital with injuries.

All 397 national parks across the country will offer free admission Jan. 14-16 to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

A Hollister family is displaced after a house fire Tuesday morning in the 1500 block of Cembellin Drive.