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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.

Hollister police are looking for a 14-year-old runaway girl who might be with a 41-year-old man, according to a statement from police.

A motorcycle crashed into a fence shortly before 10:30 a.m. Sunday on Airline Highway near La Gloria Road in southern San Benito County, but the rider did not want medical attention, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Police in the past two days have arrested six suspects in connection with the January 2011 beating homicide of a 39-year-old Hollister man on Park Hill and have alleged it was retaliation against the victim for being a witness to another crime.