Crime

A 3.3 magnitude earthquake hit near Hollister on Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey website.

Friends and family of the Gilroy man severely injured in a motorcycle-versus-vehicle accident Jan. 6 are establishing a public fundraising campaign to help pay for the rising medical costs of Andrew Burgess, 59.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office is warning that international scam artists are increasingly using dating websites to defraud victims with investment or loan swindles, according to a press release sent out today.

Authorities are continuing to investigate a Hollister strip mall fire the chief called suspicious.

Read the latest from the Hollister Police Department in this week's blotter.

A jury trial is scheduled for the former Hollister martial arts instructor accused of sexually assaulting a juvenile girl, according to court records.

The search for suspects wanted in connection with an armed robbery in Vacaville led to a lengthy standoff that began shortly after 10:30 a.m. and stretched well into Thursday evening at Gilroy’s Motel 6.

An estimated 40,000 new laws, regulations and resolutions were approved by legislators nationwide in 2013, including 800 in California.

The truck suspected of being used in the October homicide of Hollister’s Michael Cortez has been found abandoned and found by authorities, according to the Hollister Police Department.

Hollister police and county sheriff’s deputies arrested six suspects Tuesday on suspicion of drug-related charges, according to a statement from police.