Pride 2012: ‘Spirit of service’ in the family
This feature and others will appear in the special "Pride & Promise" feature section in Tuesday's Free Lance. Pick up a copy today.
Local police to focus on traffic enforcement near schools
The Hollister Police Department, the California Highway Patrol and the San Benito County Sheriff’s Office will be concentrating enforcement of traffic laws around Hollister Schools in an effort to encourage drivers to drive safely in school zones.
Pride & Promise 2012
Our annual Pride special section comes to you with the promise of revealing some of Gilroy's hidden gems, loyal residents and honored citizens.
Guide to the facts behind Sierra LaMar’s disappearance
The answers to the following questions should help summarize what’s happened so far in the Sierra LaMar investigation, inform how the community can help, and provide some useful background to the case.
Items found during Sierra LaMar search, but ‘possibly nothing’
Used condoms and an empty handcuff box were found Thursday by a volunteer searcher at the west end of Palm Avenue, about a mile from missing teen Sierra LaMar’s bus stop in Morgan Hill, though Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said Thursday night that “it’s possibly nothing.”
Romero murder suspects’ hearing postponed
The plea hearing for the five suspects accused of killing Tara Romero, 14, and trying to kill three other teens Nov. 4, 2011 was postponed.
Hey! Take a hike
It has been a dry winter and the trivial rainfall we have received has left the hills a timid shade of green.
Honor for Mike
Before he became a Gavilan Community College trustee, Rotary Club member, church choir singer, Leadership Morgan Hill graduate, business owner, avid fisherman and horseback rider, and a long list of other titles reflecting what his friends classify as unwavering ambition and devotion to those around him far and wide, Mike Davenport was an officer in the U.S. Navy.
A welcome home with dignity
When he stepped off the plane in San Jose for a visit to see his parents and siblings, U.S. Marine Cpl. Ryan Bennett, 24, had “no clue” that he would be greeted by two rows of patriotic strangers clad in biker gear, toting American flags and saluting just for him.
