Crime

Authorities have released the identity of the Hollister woman killed in Saturday’s accident in the city.

A small school bus carrying a half-dozen elementary school children was involved in an accident at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday at a San Benito Street intersection, while there were no apparent injuries.

Police arrested three men Thursday suspected of drug possession and sales in a McDonald’s parking lot, according to a statement from the Hollister Police Department.

A routine patrol check last Thursday resulted in two arrests on suspected drug charges, according to the Hollister Police Department. Those same two suspects were among six people arrested on suspected drug charges days earlier in the same vehicle, according to the HPD.

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The suspect in Friday's encounter with sheriff's deputies – which led to a nearby school being locked down – is a lecturer with the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.

Police on Friday morning arrested three Hollister men and accused them of firearm and drug charges, according to the Hollister Police Department.

Friends and family of the former Hollister police sergeant injured in a motorcycle vs. vehicle accident Jan. 6 have set up a public fundraising campaign to help pay for the rising medical costs of Andrew Burgess, 59, of Gilroy.

Hollister council members this week OK’d Interim Fire Chief Mike O’Connor as the full-time fire chief. O’Connor assumed the interim post in April and has overseen the transition of county fire services from Calfire to the Hollister Fire Department.