#monterey-county

#monterey-county

This like-new townhome with sophisticated interior finishes and a light-filled open floor plan won't last long in this market.Located in the Astoria neighborhood complex in San Jose, the townhome offers about 1,457 square feet of living space with two en suite bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms and a great room with a well-appointed chef's kitchen, dining area, and living room.

The 30th annual Monterey Wine Competition, held March 11 in King City, saw a 2018 Pelio Vineyard Chardonnay, from a vineyard and brand owned by Los Gatos residents Les and Nini Pelio, crowned Best White of Show and Best Chardonnay.Garnering 95 points, it was a real head-turner.The vineyard is in sandy and limestone studded soils off Highway 68, at the very western edge of Carmel Valley.

(Shmuel Thaler / Santa Cruz Sentinel via Associated Press)

As yet another storm brings rain to a soaked state, new photos show the effect of floodwaters on two of California's hardest-hit communities.A levee failure on the Pajaro River in Monterey County triggered massive flooding and prompted hundreds of evacuations and dozens of water rescues.

The Michelin inspectors giveth and they taketh away in the latest California guide release, which is arriving later in the year than usual.The biggest winners in SF are a handful of new one-star honorees, but the big headline is that SoCal has its first three-star restaurant.This year's new star rankings were unveiled at an event Monday evening in Los Angeles, and for the Bay Area, there were no dramatic demotions or star-strippings at the two- and three-star level  though Campton Place and Coi fell off the list because they remain closed.

Another powerful storm will hit California starting Monday night, compounding the effects residents have already felt from a similar storm that led to turbulent flooding last week and forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes.Forecasters with the National Weather Service in Los Angeles are calling the latest storm, which is expected to last through Wednesday, a significant atmospheric river event and are fairly confident that it will bring widespread, heavy rainfall.

Paul Flores, who was found guilty last year of murdering Kristin Smart in 1996 when they were both university students, was sentenced on Friday to 25 years to life in prison, ending a case that has lasted more than a quarter of a century.A Superior Court judge, Jennifer O'Keefe, sentenced Mr. Flores, 46, for the murder of Ms. Smart, 19, a freshman at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where Mr. Flores was also a student.

CENTERVILLE, Ohio  An Ohio man who previously attended school in Monterey County was arrested by the FBI Monday on federal charges for threatening to commit a mass shooting at Washington Middle School in Salinas.Alex Jaques, 21 of Centerville, Ohio, made the interstate threats in a video posted to YouTube, which was reported to the FBI Threat Operations Center on Nov. 15, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of Ohio.

A filing in federal court in Maryland on Wednesday offered new details about how Tom Girardi's chief financial officer conducted what prosecutors have called a "side fraud" inside the massive corruption at the legal titan's Los Angeles-based firm.In an affidavit justifying the arrest of Christopher Kamon on a wire fraud charge, an FBI agent wrote that the former Girardi Keese CFO duped his boss out of millions of dollars by persuading Girardi's secretary that the firm's operating account was running low.