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Nobody knows why Allysa Marie Chavez-Perez was walking alone in the middle of the night along a busy highway east of Gilroy. Friends and teachers who knew the 17-year-old say she was on the verge of turning her life around and graduating from high school in June.

For siblings, family feuds may be confined to within the walls of a single-family home living room.

William Dawson, 32, who taught at the Gilroy Unified School District's advanced student program, was arrested Wednesday and charged with seven felonies for a relationship he had with a 17-year-old female student.

Authorities recently charged a man with murder in relation to the February 2023 drug overdose death of a Morgan Hill woman.  On March 1, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office charged Benjamin Nathan Williams, 34, of San Jose with one count of murder and...

A big rig carrying 40,000 pounds of printer paper toppled into a ravine on Highway 152 (Hecker Pass) just after 9am May 6.  The California Highway Patrol said the male driver, who suffered minor injuries, was traveling from Los Angeles to Watsonville for the PTS,...

GILROY

Starting Jan. 5, the Gilroy Library will be open six days a week and will expand hours on weekdays to better serve the community, according to a press release from the Santa Clara County Library District.

A South Bay man has been charged with sexually molesting teenage children during church trips at his house on a Morgan Hill lake, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. The case against 54-year-old Norlan Macias, of San Jose, was launched several years...

The 12th annual unSCruz event, a four-day bounty of free style art projects, oddball vehicles, tricycles, motorized gizmos, outlandish costumes, food and drink extravaganzas, music, dance and more unfolded May 2-5 at the San Benito County Fairgrounds.  The campout event, which sold out in an...