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An armed robbery, carjacking and kidnapping occurred between 2 and 4 p.m. Saturday, when two males suspects armed with handguns robbed a 30-year-old male suspect on the 7600 block of Monterey Street near Fourth Street in downtown Gilroy. 

The suspect accused of a stabbing homicide at a Hollister cemetery in March 2011 has pleaded not guilty.

One of the two suspects in the alleged Christmas theft of copper wire from a Pacific Gas & Electric facility in Hollister failed to appear at a trial setting Thursday and had a warrant issued for his arrest, according to court records.

San Juan Bautista leaders are set to host a dedication for the area’s first electric charging station at Abbe Park on Feb. 17, according to announcement from the city.

In less than an hour you can escape to the Peninsula and find an off-beaten path or one well-traveled. Read on, hiker.

Here's your local guide on where to hike in South County, including distance and links to past columns by outdoor columnist Ron Erskine.

This baby opossum suffered a broken leg while clinging to her mother who had been hit by a car. WERC's veterinarian splinted her tiny leg and sweetly attached a heart appliqué to the cast. Because of the TLC she received from WERC's volunteers, her leg healed perfectly and a few months later she was happily released.

The Gilroy High School Athletic Association will host its 32nd annual Crab Cioppino Feed, Dance and Auction at 4:30 p.m. May 12 at Christopher Ranch at 305 Bloomfield Avenue in Gilroy. This popular event attracts people from throughout the Bay Area – approximately 1,000 attended in 2011.

Stacy Lonnberg said she slept for five hours, drank a Bloody Mary and popped an oxycodone on an empty stomach Jan. 14 before getting behind the wheel of her family’s Toyota Tacoma pickup. Less than an hour later, the allegedly drunken 51-year-old Gilroy woman zipped to speeds 20 mph above posted limits, sideswiped another vehicle while trying to change lanes and rolled her pickup on Highway 85 in Los Gatos, killing her husband and daughter, according to court documents obtained by the Dispatch.

Few details have emerged in the week following an early morning raid in Gilroy, in which a 42-year-old man wanted by local police was apprehended by federal agents on yet-to-be-announced charges.