Crime

GILROY—The parents of Audrie Pott, a 15-year-old Saratoga girl who took her own life in 2012 after three teen boys sexually assaulted and humiliated her reached a settlement Friday in a wrongful death suit against the defendants’ families.

GILROY—Christopher High’s new and stunning Don Christopher Sports Complex was marred sometime over the weekend after vandals ripped up part of the field.

GILROY—Two Hollister men stabbed by a pair of assailants Monday are recovering from their wounds, Gilroy police said.

HOLLISTER—Police on Saturday arrested a Hollister fugitive who was the subject of a three-hour manhunt in Gilroy two weeks ago.

GILROY—More than a year after he was accused of luring a 13-year-old girl into prostitution, a Gilroy man has pleaded guilty to three felony sex crimes as part of a deal with prosecutors that will put him behind bars for 11 years.

GILROY—After more than three hours, authorities gave up an intense hunt Tuesday evening near the Gilroy Sports Park for an “armed and dangerous” man wanted in connection with an attempted murder in Hollister on Easter Sunday last year.

GILROY—A San Jose man is behind bars and charged with the killing of Robert Heiser while police continue the hunt for a third suspect in what investigators now say was murder and robbery by a “criminal street gang.”

A Gilroy woman’s big donation has raised to $25,000 the reward offered to catch the person who threw a puppy and its nursing mother trapped in sandbags from a moving car, killing the pup.

GILROY—Gilroy Unified School District will not expel a Christopher High School senior who transferred here after he was involved in a sexual attack shared on social media and that lead to the victim’s suicide.