A Georgia man, Aloysius James, has been found guilty in the 1988 cold-case murder of Ofelia Sandoval, according to the Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office.

Santa Maria Police arrested Clayton Peavey, a 31-year-old man from Santa Maria, for attempted murder at a Chick-fil-A on ...

A Santa Barbara County jury this week found a man guilty of the rape and murder of a Santa Maria woman back in 1988.

Re: People v. Aloysius JamesSanta Barbara Superior Court Case No 24CR02219 SANTA MARIA, Calif., February 27, 2026 — Santa Barbara County District Attorney ...

A man was found guilty of first-degree murder in the cold case killing of a California woman nearly 40 years after her death.

Santa Maria Police officers arrested three teens just after 10:00 p.m. Saturday on weapons charges after their car failed to ...

Nearly four decades after a Santa Maria mother of three was found dead, Santa Barbara County Superior Court jurors on Friday ...

The Santa Maria Police Department Gang Suppression Team says it arrested 3 men on weapons charges on Saturday night.

One of Santa Maria's oldest unsolved killings is no longer a mystery. A Santa Barbara County jury on Friday convicted 58-year-old Aloysius Winthrop James of first-degree murder and found true the ...

A Gainesville man arrested in metro Atlanta in 2024 has now been found guilty in a nearly four-decade-old California cold case murder.

Shoppers in upstate New York month turned up a rare find while perusing a local antique store this month: a live owl resting ...