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1 Former Stevenson head files $20M suit

December 12 — THE FORMER head of Stevenson School — who was put on leave in 2022 before being fired several months later — contends in a new lawsuit that a few disgruntled senior employees made up bogus claims about him, which led the school’s board of trustees to let him go so they wouldn’t have to give him about $2 million in severance ... Read More

2 C.V. homeowners to fight huge county fine

December 12 — THE OWNERS of a property in Carmel Valley who were hit with a $760,000 fine for allegedly violating Monterey County’s vacation rental ordinance during Car Week last summer are set to make their case against the penalty next week ... Read More

3 CSUMB professor killed in cycling crash

December 11 — A LONGTIME Cal State University Monterey Bay professor whose lifework focused on social justice education and community-building died in Pebble Beach Friday morning while riding his bicycle near 17 Mile Drive. Shortly after 9:15 a.m. Dec. 5, Monterey resident Seth Pollack, 66, was cycling ... Read More

4 Mayor: ‘We’re incentivizing gangs to arm juveniles’

December 11 — SAN JOSE Mayor Matt Mahan, a Democrat, says the pendulum has swung too far left when it comes to criminal justice in California — specifically the state’s sentencing laws that apply to minors. “I think we need to bring that pendulum back to the middle,” Mahan told a Los Angeles TV station ... Read More