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In 2011, several key cases in Gilroy were resolved in the

Maribel Mejia, the woman who caused a statewide panic when she accidentally kidnapped a Morgan Hill infant earlier this year, will be in court for a sentencing hearing Tuesday.

Here are the most-viewed stories - ranked in order of most web traffic on gilroydispatch.com - in 2011.

Hollister police have arrested a 28-year-old suspect after the stabbing homicide early on Christmas morning, according to a Hollister Police Department announcement.

More than three years have passed since Santa Clara County voters approved the Valley Transportation Authority's Measure B in November 2008 for a 1/8-cent sales tax increase for a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) extension.

Read more about some of the Gilroyans who died in 2011 from their stories at left.

The Gilroy Police Department was contacted at 5:12 p.m. Saturday by a citizen who located multiple pieces of jewelry, along with a broken jewelry box stashed in a black computer case near the bridge on the 9000 block of Church Street. 

The Gilroy Police Department has released security photos of a man wanted for robbing a local Walmart of more than $3,000. And it's asking the public to help locate him.

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