SANTA CRUZ — Two Watsonville men convicted in the 2009 fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man on Roache Road were sentenced to life in prison by a Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge Friday. Joel ...

The man’s sentencing comes after he pleaded guilty in September to multiple felonies, including “assault with intent to commit rape and forcible oral copulation,” prosecutors said. Getty ...

Early — very early — into the Labor Day holiday weekend, gunfire erupted near MGM’s Restaurant & Lounge. The result: Patricio Archuleta died of his wounds, and Luis Meza has been arrested on suspicion ...

An Oxnard man was sentenced to nearly two decades in state prison on Monday after he sexually assaulted a female trucker in 2020. Jose Luis Meza Jr., who turns 35 years old on Thursday, was sentenced ...

SANTA CRUZ – A former gang member testified Thursday that he saw Jose Luis Meza get “jumped in” a gang in Watsonville in 2009 not long before Meza allegedly shot and killed 20-year-old Richard Campos.

A 21-year-old man from Port Hueneme has been sentenced to 32 years in state prison for attempted murder Oct. 28, according to authorities. Gabriel Torres was convicted by a jury on July 31 of ...

A pursuit that began in La Quinta Tuesday evening ended more nearly 20 miles away in Thermal with the arrest of an Indio man wanted in connection with several thefts. About 6:10 p.m., authorities ...

Gen. Luis García Meza, a former Bolivian dictator who was convicted of genocide after leading a brief but brutal rule that had been engineered by cocaine cartels and a Nazi war criminal, died on ...

A 42-year-old Salinas man has been sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for domestic violence and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Jose Luis Meza was convicted of violating a ...