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Tommy is a 1-year-old cat who has been neutered. He is a special needs, indoor only cat due to a repaired hip injury. He is very sweet, relaxed and good with other cats. He has been at the San Martin Animal Shelter since September 2011. If you are interested in this or any other animal, please call (408) 686-3900.

Hi, my name is Aramati (86207) and this is my buddy Arcis (86208). When I go exploring, Arcis isn't far behind because we love each other and pretty much everyone we meet. For Valentine's Day, I would like to go home with a family that will let me hop on their laps while Arcis cuddles and gives kisses. If nuzzling is your thing, come and meet us at HSSV's Animal Community Center! Visit the Humane Society Silicon Valley, 901 Ames Ave., Milpitas, or call (408) 262-2133.

The sixth suspect has been charged in a murder of a Hollister man on Park Hill in January 2011, while four of the five juveniles accused in the case appeared in court Tuesday to retain attorneys.

A Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center volunteer just picked up the first baby birds of the season. The tiny-tiny hummingbirds (two of which will fit on a dime) are just one day old and came in with egg shell still stuck to their backs. Their mother had flown into a home improvement store, become trapped, and could not return to care for them in their nest in the store's garden center. The extremely fragile babies now require regular feedings of a special formula every 15 minutes for several weeks before they can eat on their own, fly and then be released---IF they survive the first couple of days of their lives.

The possibility of Highway 152 becoming a toll road has some in the ag industry worried about what it would mean for business.

Two people were arrested on felony warrants after a traffic stop in Watsonville on Saturday night.

As news came that the state Legislature had approved a bill that would restore funding to the home-to-school transportation budget while taking an equal cut from all schools statewide, Hollister School District Superintendent Gary McIntire said that the ruling would not change plans to eliminate bus service for the following school year.

A water main broke that broke Thursday on Fourth Street near the sheriff’s office headquarters will indefinitely shut off a portion of the busy road – while another main later failed on the west side – becoming the latest in a series of more than a dozen malfunctions for the downtown system in recent years.

The Hollister Police Department has released surveillance photos  identifying the suspect in an attempted kidnapping last week at a downtown laundromat.

A pickup truck struck a dump truck on Union Road at about 2:30 p.m. Monday.