Crime

The mural was defaced over the weekend — the second time in three years. Police have images of the vandal and are asking the public for help.

Journalist Bob Woodward and Historians Annette Gordon-Reed and Douglas Brinkley came to Monterey to discuss the state of democracy in the United States, in the last of this year's Leon Panetta Lecture Series. KAZU's Jerimiah Oetting joined an intimate press conference ahead of the event.

Divers recovered Dennis the Menace from a canal off Del Monte Boulevard in Monterey, after the bronze statue was stolen last August.

This is Homecoming Week at Aptos High School, with activities including a parade, a dance, dress-up days, and a football game on Friday night versus Seaside. But this year’s celebrations are tempered as the school community still struggles to come to grips with the stabbing on campus Aug. 31 that left a 17-year-old student dead and two other students, aged 14 and 17, charged with his murder.