Crime

Multiple engines from Gilroy, Morgan Hill and San Jose fire companies responded at around 4:55 p.m. to a house fire at 7224 Church St.

Morgan Hill Police confirmed they found a dead body inside a

Stacy Lonnberg said she slept for five hours, drank a Bloody Mary and popped an oxycodone on an empty stomach Jan. 14 before getting behind the wheel of her family’s Toyota Tacoma pickup. Less than an hour later, the allegedly drunken 51-year-old Gilroy woman zipped to speeds 20 mph above posted limits, sideswiped another vehicle while trying to change lanes and rolled her pickup on Highway 85 in Los Gatos, killing her husband and daughter, according to court documents obtained by the Dispatch.

Joshua Valdez, the 22-year-old Gilroy High School graduate who was critically injured in a hit-and-run accident, returned to his home in Morgan Hill Thursday after a two-month stay in the hospital.

A fatal gun accident is hitting “home on a lot of levels” as community members process the loss of a young life cut painfully short.

Under the influence

The Gilroy woman who is charged with two counts of murder for allegedly driving drunk and causing a Jan. 14 car crash that killed her husband and daughter has said she is mentally incompetent for trial. 

The San Benito County District Attorney's Office plans to charge

Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee stopped by the Garlic Festival law enforcement tent at “Gate 3” on Miller Avenue on his way home with his family about 5:20pm July 28. He was on US 101 just south of Gilroy about 20 minutes later when...