PHOTOS: 2013 Quail Motorcycle Gathering
It was a local show-stealer for top prize at the fifth annual Quail Motorcycle Gathering. The Best in Show prize was awarded to Monterey resident and three-time 500cc World Champion Wayne Rainey's 1993 Yamaha YZR500. The bike has not been touched or modified since the very last race on the ...
Attorney: Suspect in Monterey Cabbie Killing On Life Support Following Suicide Attempt
An attorney for the Big Sur man accused of stabbing a cab driver to death last week and who hanged himself Saturday in Monterey County Jail says his client may be brain dead and likely will be removed from life support in the coming days. John Klopfenstein, who represents 20-year-old ...
Monterey Stabbing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty; Slain Taxi Driver's Wife Wants "Maximum Penalty"
(Photo: Joshua Claypole, Alma Huerta) The man accused of stabbing a Salinas taxi driver to death May 1 pleaded not guilty to murder at the Monterey County Superior Court Friday. Joshua Claypole, 20 of Big Sur, appeared in court Friday afternoon to hear the charges against him: murder with an ...
Muslim in Monterey: Advocating Dialogue in a Troubled Time
(Photo: Zeynep Timmester, Mohammed Hafez) Zeynep Timmester occupies a space between worlds. She grew up in both Britain and Turkey. Her mother, who is British, is a Christian convert to Islam. Her father is a secular Muslim. Now, Timmester is a Muslim in America, a country built on the promise ...
Suspect in Monterey Murder Held on $1.1 Million Bail
The man accused of stabbing a taxicab driver to death in Monterey Wednesday was booked on police charges of murder and carjacking, according to the Monterey Police Department. Joshua Kannon Claypole, 20, of Big Sur is being held at the Monterey County Jail on $1.1 million bail. Investigators say 44-year-old ...
Local Family-Run Coke Farms to Take Over Australia (Kind Of)
Apparently Monterey County has got something Australia wants. Bad. Or Australia has a really good marketing/business plan on its hands. Or both. But we'll figure that out later. Here's what has me thinking all that. First I got this in an email yesterday from Chanel Hason, pictured above with the ...
UPDATE: Taxicab Driver Dies After Stabbing in Monterey
(Photo: 20-year-old Joshua Claypole of Big Sur) A 44-year-old taxi driver was stabbed to death Wednesday afternoon in the parking lot of an Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Monterey, according to the Monterey Police Department. Daniel Garcia Huerta, a Salinas Yellow Cab driver, was stabbed multiple times after pulling his cab into ...
BREAKING NEWS: Cafe Dametra, Constance Wine Bar Padlocked as Bizarre Legal Saga Plays Out in Carmel
Restaurateur Faisal Nimri stood on the sidewalk outside the back entrance to his popular Dametra Cafe Wednesday morning and listened as an attorney tried to explain why his place—along with two other businesses at Lincoln and Ocean in Carmel—was being padlocked under court order. About a half-dozen restaurant employees leaned ...
Carmel's Popular Dametra Cafe and Constance Wine Bar Padlocked
It is hard to get more popular than Dametra Cafe (622-7766) did in just a few short years, particularly given a schizophrenic menu that at times appeared to try to do too many things and a spot that doesn't exactly hold a lot of folks. But sure enough, it quickly ...
Three Suspects Linked to Boston Marathon Bombings Arrested
The Boston Police Department have taken three suspects in relation to the Boston Marathon bombings into custody today. Officials announced the arrests in a tweet and have leaked little since, directing all questions to the FBI. The three suspects are believed to be the roommates of 19-year-old Dzokhar Tsarnaev. The ...
Apartments, Restaurants Proposed for Burned-Out Alvarado Street Spot
The fire that destroyed Alvarado Street's historic Work building in February 2007 struck just before the Great Recession took its own toll on downtown Monterey. Now, the gaping hole that's been vacant for more than six years might get reincarnated into residential and commercial space. Saucito Land Company submitted plans ...
Second Man to be Charged in 2010 Murder of Six-Year-Old
A second man has been arrested in the case of a six-year-old Salinas boy who was killed by a stray bullet in 2010. 21-year-old Bernardo Camacho, formerly of Salinas, is accused of using a firearm to kill Azahel Cruz, according a statement from the Monterey County District Attorney's Office. The ...
Salinas Police Defend Decision to Release Officer Arrested for DUI
The Salinas Police Department says it did the right thing when it cited and released an off-duty police officer for driving under the influence last week. An unnamed officer was arrested for a DUI last Friday afternoon, according to a statement from the Salinas Police Department. The police department says ...
Always Live Music Video of the Week: MGMT Debut New Tune
"We're not trying to make music that everyone understands the first time they hear it," Ben Goldwasser told Rolling Stone back in January in reference MGMT's forthcoming record due out in June. The synth-pop psychedelic duo—featuring Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden—performed one of the new tracks that will be on the ...
Sneak Peek at Cindy's Waterfront Restaurant at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Something miraculous happens at the just opened Cindy's Waterfront (648-4870) restaurant in Monterey Bay Aquarium. Fugly becomes beautiful. http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/users/photos/2013/apr/30/14909/ Maybe ugliest thing in the entire ocean is rendered so pretty you want to lick it. Monkfish are feo enough to make a grouper swim ashore but…the monkfish special ($26)—the fish ...
Enviro Scorecard Gives Monning Perfect Voting Record; Alejo, Blakeslee Slip
Bill Monning is still batting 100 on the California League of Conservation Voters' Environmental Scorecard, but Luis Alejo and Sam Blakeslee have lost environmental momentum.
War Games: App Demonstrates How a Nuke Would Level a City
Nuclear war—there’s an app for that. NUKEMAP, a web app that uses Google Maps to demonstrate the range of a nuclear blast on a city, has gotten a lot of attention as the threat of a nuclear strike percolates into the public’s imagination. Since Feb. 2012, the app has had ...
Monterey Police Rescue 48 Animals, Investigate Possible Animal Cruelty
The good news is 48 animals are free from a life of confinement in a house filled with piles of garbage and their own excrement. The bad news is 48 animals were kept locked inside a house filled with up to three feet of garbage, feces and urine by a ...
Monday=Funday for Lunch With Rodriguez Farmer and Flea Market at Monterey County Fairgrounds
Monday doesn’t have to be so blue. In fact, it can be an extension of the weekend—if only during your lunch break—for folks game to do something out of the ordinary by heading down to the Monterey Country Fairgrounds’ carnival end by CVS, where the grounds transform into a bizarre ...
PHOTOS: 2013 Big Sur International Marathon
It was a year of repeats. Adam Roach of Monterey held his title of top finisher with a time of 2:27:46, while Nuta Olaru finished as the top female with a time of 02:50:02. Supporters of the Boston Marathon bombing victims were in full force as they cheered on nearly ...
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