SF News Santa Cruz Shooting Suspect Preached Libertarian Ideals, Was Pushed Over the Edge By Police Actions Against Protesters, Friends Say The Air Force sergeant suspected of killing a Santa Cruz sheriff's deputy last Saturday, had been ranting on social media and making references to an extremist group that espouses anti-government, anti-law-enforcement views.
SF News Air Force Officer Named In Killing of Santa Cruz Sheriff's Deputy May Be Linked to Killing of Federal Officer in Oakland An ambush-style attack that took the life of a sheriff's deputy in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Saturday afternoon may be linked to a similar ambush attack on a pair of federal security guards in Oakland during protests on May 29.
SF News Four Young Men Identified As Suspects Charged In Santa Cruz Kidnapping and Murder The Santa Cruz Sheriff's Office on Thursday held a press conference identifying a a trio of young twentysomething men from Lancaster, in LA County, as well as a fourth man as suspects in the October 1 kidnapping and murder of Tushar Atre.
SF News Suspects Arrested In Kidnapping and Murder of Santa Cruz Tech Exec The investigation of the unsolved October 1 murder of Santa Cruz tech millionaire Tushar Atre may have turned a corner this week as authorities just revealed that "several" arrests have been made in the case.
SF News Surfer Killed In Shark Attack in Santa Cruz A 26-year-old surfer was attacked by a shark and killed Saturday afternoon about 100 yards off Sand Dollar Beach, and this was the first fatality from a shark attack in the region in decades.
SF News Alleged Kidnapping of Santa Cruz Tech Exec Led To Possible Homicide In a mysterious case in which very few details have been publicly revealed, a 50-year-old tech entrepreneur from Santa Cruz was allegedly kidnapped from his home early Tuesday, and his girlfriend's vehicle was later found with a dead body in it.
SF News Santa Cruz Bear Fire Arson Suspect Threatens Prosecutor During Arraignment #BearFire suspect, Marlon Coy, mouths “You’re next” toward Santa Cruz DA Jeff Rosell in court this morning.Rosell- “Bring it on.” pic.twitter.com/tMcp5lbuTQ— Matt Keller (@MattKellerABC7) October 31, 2017 Marlon
SF News Teen Who Admitted To Rape And Murder Of Santa Cruz 8-Year-Old To Be Jailed With Adults The teen suspect at the center of a high-profile child killing will be tried as an adult, officials said this week. You might recall the awful case: Eight-year-old Maddy Middleton was last seen
SF News Bear Fire In Santa Cruz Mountains Reaches 30% Containment, Some Evacuation Orders Lifted First Responder to the #BearFire. California feels a little End of Days this morning. Stay safe good people. pic.twitter.com/PoeNAOlvNQ— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) October 18, 2017 300 structures remain under threat
SF News Northern California Wildfire Death Toll Climbs To 42 As Six Firefighters Are Injured Battling Santa Cruz Blaze Cal Fire projected that the Central LNU Complex wildfires still burning in Northern California would be contained by Friday, and for now, those projections seem to be on track. It's a great bit
SF News New Fire Breaks Out In Santa Cruz Mountains, Threatens At Least 100 Homes Firefighters are battling a 125 acre fire off Bear Creek Rd, SW of San Jose (San Mateo Co). #BearFire Evacs in place https://t.co/p4pDI6YQyb pic.twitter.com/zPMdCHL7Wh— CAL FIRE (@CAL_
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rad Hot Wheels Track Through Santa Cruz Redwoods A group called 5 Mad Movie Makers that last year built and filmed a Hot Wheels track on the beach in San Clemente, CA, is back this month with a track they built
SF News Weird August 'Monsoonal Moisture' Brings Lightning To East Bay, 'Fognado' To Santa Cruz I think most of us can agree that the weather's been a little funny, especially on Thursday, especially for August. And while some rare thunderstorms were predicted because of this weird mugginess, perhaps
SF News Ohio State Fair Tragedy Prompts Santa Cruz And Sacramento To Shut Down Fireball Rides A tragic accident involving a carnival ride at the Ohio State Fair Wednesday evening has prompted the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk to temporarily shut down their Fireball ride for further inspection. The ride,
Arts & Entertainment 'The Last Remaining Ghost Town In The Bay Area' Is On An Island In the Bay Contemporary Bay Area residents can rightfully complain of overpopulation, overdevelopment, and a housing crunch. But amidst this development boom, the history buffs over at KQED remind us that the Bay Area still has
SF News Shark Attack In Santa Cruz Closes Beaches A shark attack near the Santa Cruz shore has prompted beach closures and presumably an uptick in folks watching Jaws on Netflix. SFGate reports that a shark tried to take a bite out
SF News Santa Cruz Surgeon Who Allegedly Molested 11 Kids Granted Bail Despite yet another alleged victim coming forward, a Santa Cruz judge granted bail Monday morning to 57-year-old James Kohut, M.D., a brain surgeon charged with (now) 11 counts of child sexual abuse.
SF News World Famous Surfer, Now Homeless, Questioned And Released In Santa Cruz Homicide Onetime surfing legend Kevin Reed, a.k.a. Kevin Callahan, was arrested Sunday and questioned by Santa Cruz police in connection to the death of another man whose body was found by some
Arts & Entertainment Old Person Sent Into Fog Of Nostalgia By Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk's Free Summer 2017 Concert Lineup Forty- and fifty-somethings nostalgic about the soundtracks to their younger years got a bit of good news this week and, no, I'm not talking about a Hair Club For Men coupon in today's
SF News How Homeland Security 'Deceived' Santa Cruz Police To Make Immigration Arrests In A Sanctuary City Homeland Security (& other agencies) launch wave of pre-dawn raids across Santa Cruz, said to be targeting gang-affiliated homicide suspects pic.twitter.com/EDbfKHhDjj— Wilson Walker (@Wilson_Walker) February 13, 2017 An episode
SF News Video: Santa Cruz Mudslide Becoming 'Disaster Tourism' Attraction, Locals Fear SR-35 near Las Cumbres Rd closed indefinitely due to a wash out pic.twitter.com/MdFwO4iLDA— CHP San Jose (@CHPSanJose) February 10, 2017 A mudslide that left a gaping hole in Highway 35,
SF News Powerful LSD Leading To Really Bad Trips, Arrests In Santa Cruz County The acid in Santa Cruz is really bad right now, man. Either that or it's really, really good and it's making people so out of their minds that they're committing crimes and getting
SF News Man Who Escaped Santa Cruz Jail Had Less Than Four Months Left To Serve An inmate who escaped a Santa Cruz jail this morning, the second in the city in four years, was barely four months away from being released. So reports Bay City News, which explains
SF News Teen Accused In Santa Cruz Murder Of Maddy Middleton Won't Be Tried Until 2017 The 16-year-old boy accused in the assault and murder last July of 8-year-old Madyson "Maddy" Middleton made a brief appearance in court Tuesday morning to enter a not-guilty plea. As KRON 4 reports,
SF News Santa Cruz Fraternity And Sorority Members Busted In MDMA Drug Ring Six UC Santa Cruz fraternity and sorority members were arrested last Friday for running what federal agents allege to be a large MDMA — a drug also known as "Molly" or "Ecstasy" — "organized drug
