A CASTROVILLE MAN PLEADED NO CONTEST TO THE BEATING DEATH OF AN INFANT.    47 YEAR OLD JESUS VARGAS ESPINOZA WAS THE TEMPORARY GUARDIAN OF THE 10 MONTH OLD GIRL, ANGELLE NEGRON.  THE CHILD DIED OF BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA TO THE HEAD ON VALENTINE'S DAY 2013.  ESPINOZA BURIED THE INFANT IN HER DIAPER BAG, AND WAS APPREHENDED BY F-B-I AGENTS IN LOS ANGELES,  WHILLE  TRYING TO FLEE TO MEXICO.   ACCORDING TO A PLEA DEAL,  ESPINOZA WILL BE SENTENCED TO 25 YEARS TO LIFE ON JUNE 21^ST.

DUE  TO  ESCALATING  PENSION  COSTS,  AND  A  1.4  MILLION  DOLLAR  DEFICIT,  THE  CITY  OF  WATSONVILLE  HANDED  OUT  PINK  SLIPS  YESTERDAY TO  A  NUMBER  OF  EMPLOYEES.    REPORTEDLY  CITY  LEADERS  ARE LOOKING  FOR  EMPLOYEE  CONCESSIONS  ON  THEIR  PENSION  PACKAGES….AND  THAT’S  WHY  POLICE  OFFICERS,  FIREFIGHTERS,  AND  SOME  CLERICAL  AND  ADMINISTRATIVE  WORKERS RECEIVED  THE  LAY-OFF  NOTICES.

THE  NAME  OF  THE  MOTORCYCLIST,   WHO SUFFERED  FATAL  INJURIES  YESTERDAY  AFTERNOON  IN  SALINAS,  HAS  BEEN  RELEASED.       47  YEAR-OLD  DARRELL  WHITEHOUSE WAS  LEAVING  HIS  JOB  EARLY  (TO  ATTEND  HIS  SON’S  R.O.T.C.   CEREMONY AROUND  2  P.M.)  YESTERDAY,   WHEN  HIS  MOTORCYCLE  HIT  A  TRUCK  (THAT  WAS  PULLING  INTO  A  PARKING  LOT  NEAR  SANBORN  AND  BLANCO  ROADS).       ALTHOUGH  WHITEHOUSE WAS  GIVEN  C.P.R.  AT  THE  SCENE  (AND  THEN  TRANSPORTED  TO  A  SALINAS  HOSPITAL),   HE  SUCCUMBED  TO  HIS  INJURIES  A  SHORT  TIME  LATER

THE  YOUNG  MOUNTAIN  LION  THAT WAS  CAPTURED  AFTER  IT  WALKED  INTO  SANTA  CRUZ  YESTERDAY MORNING,   WAS  RELEASED  BACK  INTO  THE WILD  LAST  NIGHT.     THE  BIG  CAT,  WHICH  WAS  FITTED  WITH  A  TRACKING   COLLAR  YESTERDAY  AFTERNOON,   WAS  RELEASED  IN  THE  SANTA  CRUZ  MOUNTAINS  AROUND  7  P.M.