Crime

City officials are weighing use of $100,000 to clean up a downtown property destroyed in a March fire and claiming the owner of the building had been living in an illegally converted portion of the site at the time of the blaze.

City officials are weighing use of $100,000 to clean up a downtown property destroyed in a March fire and claiming the owner of the building had been living in an illegally converted portion of the site at the time of the blaze.

Read the latest blotter items from the Hollister Police Department.

Two fire engines and a truck responded to a call for an “unconfirmed structure fire” at the Safeway on Tres Pinos Road in Hollister this morning.

A San Jose man and Campbell woman were killed in a Saturday morning accident on Highway 152 west of Lover's Lane, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Two Hollister men died in a traffic accident on U.S. 101 in Morgan Hill early Sunday morning, according to authorities. 

The two men were southbound on the freeway in a 2005 Nissan about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the California Highway Patrol. 

For an unknown reason, the vehicle traveled off the roadway onto the right shoulder just south of the Tennant Avenue exit and collided with a sign post, authorities said. Both occupants of the vehicle suffered fatal injuries as a result of the collision. 

The Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office identified the driver as Colton Moag, 23, and the passenger as Tyler Raisbeck, 30. Both were Hollister residents. 

Sheriff's investigators have arrested a second suspect in the recent string of burglaries in San Juan and on Fairview Road.