Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Salinas lawyer and judicial candidate Tom Wills to the Monterey County Superior Court bench today to fill the seat vacated by the removal of Jose Angel Velsaquez.

The rush to build a parking structure in downtown Salinas was derailed Friday, as Monterey County officials announced they'd found a way to bypass urgent deadline pressure.

Three San Joaquin County men serving sentences in a prison near Monterey are among a group suspected of using a jailhouse shank to kill a convicted child molester from Los Angeles today, a spokesman for the ...