Jose Bueno was also convicted of assault by a life prisoner. He had previously been convicted of four strikes, including for murder. Jose Bueno faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, without the ...

A jury found Roberto Carlos Cortez and Juan Jose Bueno, both 30, guilty of the attack on inmate Steven Lovely.

Nancy Miller Gomez is the county’s new poet laureate for 2025-26, having officially been announced to the position at the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors’ Jan. 28 meeting.

A jury found Roberto Carlos Cortez and Juan Jose Bueno, both 30, guilty of the attack on inmate Steven Lovely.

The two stabbed Loveley close to 50 times and despite medical intervention, he died in the hospital five days later.

Devil in the Desert,’ the focus is on the crimes of Hossein Nayeri and the police’s years-long pursuit of the perpetrator. Kidnapping and torturing a dispensary owner wasn’t his only crime, he even ...

Carroll was housed in the Chowchilla prison because of identifying as a transgender woman-- a state law that allows it. The 52-year-old has since been moved to Salinas Valley State Prison for men ...

Salinas Valley State Prison inmates Roberto Carlos Cortez and Juan Jose Bueno were each convicted by a jury of first-degree ...