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The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's help in finding a missing Morgan Hill teen, Sierra Lamar. 

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department is asking for the community's help in finding a missing Morgan Hill teen, Sierra Lamar. 

Retired Hollister police Sgt. Ray Wood, who ran for San Benito County sheriff in 2010, has accepted a plea deal on a grand theft charge for embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from the city officers’ union and could spend six months in jail, according to court records.

A Gilroy woman in custody on murder charges after allegedly driving drunk and causing a Jan. 14 car accident that killed her husband and daughter did not enter a plea Thursday, but she will appear in court again later this month, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.

A suspected Norteno gang member who escaped murder charges last summer after prosecutors dropped their pursuit of a controversial legal doctrine has been arrested again - this time on warrants for carrying a concealed knife and possession of a controlled substance, police said.

A veteran San Jose police officer from Gilroy charged in August with unlawful sexual contact with two teen boys won't know his trial start date for at least another month, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.

A Gilroy woman who allegedly drove drunk and killed her husband and daughter in a Jan. 14 car accident has been charged with murder, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.

With the possible exception of clouds, few common sights in nature can inspire more awe than a tree. At 12,000 feet, in the dry desolation of the White Mountains, bristlecone pines grow that were 3,000 years old when Christ was born. The largest giant sequoia, the General Sherman tree in Sequoia National Park, weighs nearly 2,000 tons and is 104 feet around at the base. It grew from a seed the size of an oatmeal flake from a cone the size of a walnut.

A plea hearing for the five suspects accused of killing

California State Parks' Director Ruth Coleman announced Monday that the Department has now signed an agreement for keeping Henry W. Coe State Park open to the public for the next three years.