SANTA MARIA, Calif.– The Santa Barbara County District Attorney announced Erik Rocha Fernandez has pled guilty to the 2021 first-degree murder of Frankie Hernandez in Santa Maria. Fernandez was ...

Maria Menounos returns to host The Challenge: Spies, Lies & Allies reunion. Pic credit: MTV The Challenge 2021 reunion host may look familiar to most people, as Maria Menounos works in many different ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif., December 12, 2025 – Santa Barbara County District Attorney John Savrnoch announced today that Alfredo Junior Alaniz, a 25-year-old resident of Santa Maria, was convicted by a jury ...

A Santa Barbara County Superior Court jury found a Santa Maria man guilty of first-degree murder this week for killing a rival gang member from Guadalupe in 2021 after shooting him 15 times in the ...

Jurors heard from the victim’s mother and a friend at the scene during the 2021 homicide in a Santa Maria Superior Court trial for a man accused of a fatally shooting a rival gang member. Alfredo ...

Maria Menounos and her husband, Kevin Undergaro, have been married since 2017, so their five-year anniversary is coming up in 2022. She admits they’ll do something special to celebrate, but right now, ...

Maria Freitas Silva April 15, 1933 – January 13, 2021 Resident of San Leandro Maria Freitas Silva, 87, of San Leandro, California, passed away on January 13, 2021, at Vale Healthcare Center in San ...

Maria Kallio accepts a temporary position as the leader of the Länsi-Uusimaa Police murder squad. The first murder investigation is complicated by the fact that Maria remotely knows the prime suspect.

Santa Maria resident Alfredo Alaniz Jr., 25, has been convicted by a jury of first-degree murder in the 2021 gang related shooting of a 19-year-old Guadalupe man. Information in this staff report was ...