An unlicensed 19-year-old driver was arrested for felony hit and run yesterday after trying to flee from cops after being pulled over in the Oceanview neighborhood. Within a minute the kid had driven up on the sidewalk, smashed into a parked car, smashed into a moving vehicle on Orizaba Ave. containing two women and a child, and then came to a final smashing halt on the median near Arch Street on Brotherhood Way. Everyone but the child suffered minor injuries, including the crazed teen. And why couldn't he score a license yet? He seems so stable and responsible. [Note: Photo is from a different, long-ago accident.] more ›

Young whippersnapper, Santa Cruz resident 18-year-old Matthew Rosenberg, called his mom on Monday to tell her he had "tripped, broke his leg and was lost" in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He was half right. What he didn't tell her was that he was also bombed out of his mind on hallucinogenic mushrooms and a wee bit of acid. Oh yeah, and that he didn't break his leg. more ›

Update: The murdered teen has been identified as Carlos Sousa, Jr. more ›