SF News Evacuation Order Issued In Santa Cruz and More Impacts From the Latest Rain Flood Advisories have been issued for western Sonoma County, San Francisco, San Jose, and the Big Sur coast, and the rising San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz has led to the evacuation of the Felton Grove area.
SF News At His First Ever Trial, Teen Killer of Santa Cruz Girl Hopes to Convince Jury He's Not a Danger to the Public 25-year-old Adrian Jerry "AJ" Gonzalez is hoping to be set free despite admitting to the 2015 murder of his 8-year-old neighbor, Maddy Middleton.
SF News Santa Cruz Boy, Now a 25-Year-Old Man, Who Killed 8-Year-Old Neighbor Maddy Middleton, Begins Trial to Determine His Fate Adrian Gonzalez, who has been jailed for nine years now for the brutal sexual assault and murder of a girl who lived in the same Santa Cruz apartment complex as him, heads to trial this week to determine if he should remain incarcerated.
SF News Theobald Lengyel Convicted In December Murder of Girlfriend Alyx Herrmann, Which Was Captured on Tape The jury returned with a guilty verdict Thursday in the trial of 56-year-old Theobald "Mylo" Lengyel, the former Mr. Bungle bandmember who admitted to the killing of 61-year-old girlfriend Alice "Alyx" Herrmann in her Capitola home.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Musician to Stand Trial For Girlfriend's Murder as More Details of the Crime Emerge In Court A preliminary hearing has concluded, and a Santa Cruz County judge has concluded that there is enough evidence to put 54-year-old Theodore Lengyel of El Cerrito on trial for the murder of a Capitola woman he was in a relationship with.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Band Member Pleads Not Guilty In Murder of Girlfriend The East Bay man arrested last month for the murder of Capitola resident Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani Herrmann, who was his girlfriend, was arraigned Thursday in Santa Cruz County.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Band Member Theo Lengyel Arrested In Murder of Girlfriend; Remains Found In Tilden Park It was the week before Christmas that we learned that Theobald “Theo” Brooks Lengyel, a Bay Area musician and former member of the experimental rock group Mr. Bungle, was being sought for questioning in connection with the disappearance of his girlfriend.
SF News Tragedy in Santa Cruz County, as Five-Year-Old Boy Stabs and Kills His Twin Brother A fight between two five-year-old twin boys in a small Santa Cruz County town took a disastrous turn, as one stabbed the other with a kitchen knife, and the child died from the stab wounds.
SF News Video: President Biden Tours Storm-Ravaged Santa Cruz and Santa Clara Counties, Announces More Relief Funds President Joe Biden touched down in Santa Clara County just before noon, toured the wreckage in Watsonville, Santa Cruz, and Capitola, and announced more relief funds in a speech that’s already posted online.
SF News 1983 Santa Cruz Murder Case Solved Thanks to New DNA Technology The body of 33-year-old chef and restaurant owner Joette Marie Smith was found floating, caught on a tree limb in the San Lorenzo River in Ben Lomond, in Santa Cruz County, on March 29, 1983.
SF News Former Air Force Sergeant Pleads Guilty to Murdering Santa Cruz Deputy Weeks after taking a guilty plea in the killing of a federal security officer, former Air Force Sergeant Steven Carrillo has pleaded guilty in a state murder case involving the murder of a Santa Cruz sheriff's deputy and the attempted murder of four other officers.
SF News 3.6M Earthquake Strikes Near Santa Cruz, 'Light Shaking' Recorded in South Bay At roughly 5 a.m. Saturday morning, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) recorded a minor earthquake close to Corralitos, California that was first rated at 3.9M before being downgraded to 3.6M — still making it one of the most significant tremors to hit near Santa Cruz this year.
SF News Sunday Wildfire In Big Basin Redwoods State Park Kicks Off Another Potentially Horrible Fire Season Dubbed the Basin Fire, the wildfire broke out after noon in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, which remains closed to visitors after suffering damage in the CZU Lightning Complex fires last August.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wildfires Kick Up In CZU Complex Scar Two young men were critically injured in a Bernal Heights shooting Monday night, some anonymous flyers about an affordable housing complex proclaim 'No slums in the Sunset,' and a $1.9 million Chinatown relief measure passed at the Board of Supes.
SF News Pipe Bomb Found Near Country Club in Santa Cruz Fire Zone In another weird twist in the realm of current wildfire stories around the Bay Area, firefighters doing "mop-up" work around the Boulder Creek Country Club in Santa Cruz County discovered an undetonated pipe bomb sitting in a tool box, along with other explosives.
SF News Surveillance Video Shows Three Suspects In Santa Cruz Kidnapping and Murder New footage has been released by Santa Cruz authorities in connection with the October 1 kidnapping and murder of 50-year-old tech entrepreneur Tushar Atre which shows three individuals casually strolling onto Pleasure Point Drive where Atre lived, with one carrying a rifle.
SF News Police In Capitola Investigate Murder-Suicide Involving Father And 7-Year-Old Daughter A tragic event appears to have unfolded in a parking lot outside the Capitola Mall in Santa Cruz County on Sunday afternoon when a father and his seven-year-old daughter were found dead in