Crime

Gilroy resident Alan Viarengo, who taught math at Gavilan College for nearly 20 years, was arrested last week on suspicion of stalking and threatening Santa Clara County’s public health officer, and police say he has ties to the anti-government domestic terrorist group known as “Boogaloo.”

Shots were fired into the front windows of a Dowdy Street home

Hit and run

A woman who lives on Birdsong Street said she suspects her 2-year-old cat was poisoned two weeks ago, just one street away from Ronan Avenue, the street in northwest Gilroy that already has garnered four reports of poisoning earlier this month. 

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.

No decision was made Monday morning in the first courtroom

Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith announced Oct. 31 she would retire, effective immediately, as a jury deliberates a verdict in a civil corruption trial involving jail mismanagement and a “pay-to-play” scheme involving gun permits issued by her office. Undersheriff Ken Binder will take over...

Gilroy police are investigating what they are calling "a critical incident" at an apartment complex on the 9000 block of Kern Avenue in west Gilroy near Mantelli Drive.

Today a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled against

A fire broke out near Sycamore and Church avenues and was visible from U.S. 101 shortly before 5:30 p.m. this afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol traffic incident information page. Firefighters responded to the scene.