Crime

UPDATE: The victim has been identified as 56-year-old Robert Joseph Heiser, of Gilroy. For the latest story on the developing case police have ruled a homicide, click here.

A complaint filed by attorneys for one of John Loyd’s child victims alleges the former Paradise Valley Elementary School teacher was allowed by school district and campus staff to violate education laws that are designed to keep children safe.

Police are asking the public for help locating missing teen Emiliano Vargas, who was last seen Sept. 24 near Las Animas Avenue and Monterey Road in Gilroy. Vargas, 16, is described as a Hispanic male, 5 feet, 10 inches tall with black hair and brown...

An unknown suspect caused thousands of dollars of damage to a

Sheriff's investigators suspect a 13-year-old boy shot his

A joint Gilroy-Morgan Hill SWAT team competed in the Best in the

Former Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa, who resigned from his office in March citing his intention to plead guilty to charges of failure to file campaign finances and improper use of his county credit card, was charged Wednesday by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office for “impersonating someone else’s campaign on a fictional and defamatory political flyer.”

Crews responding to a 3:30 a.m. vehicle blaze found two bodies

A man who brandished a knife and made off with an undisclosed

Police nabbed a man for showing his penis to a woman at a First