Highest crime rate in populous cities too.
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For midsize metros in the U.S., Salinas ranked as the third least affordable city in the country. The cost of housing was 66.5% above average and the overall cost of living was 10.7% above average.
Salinas: The Best Place To Live And Most Unaffordable
Salinas was just ranked as the ninth best place to live in California by U.S. News & World Report.
It’s not like anything else in happening in Salas, eh? How many people die of cellphone accidents compared to gang shootings?
Salinas Police said an undercover officer looked for drivers using their cellphone and then informed a uniformed officer in a marked patrol car of the violation. Ten stops were made 3 hours.
“It has been shown time and time again that using your cellphone while driving is very dangerous,” said Sgt. Gerry Ross. “It’s very tempting to answer that phone when someone calls but it is not worth someone getting hurt or killed. Find a place to pull over and call the person back.”
Ross said drivers are keeping an eye out for police, and officers are having to get more creative to enforce cellphone laws.
Salinas Police said they are also sending plainclothes officers out on foot, to look into cars to spot illegal cellphone use.
Testing has pointed toward a vegetable mix from Taylor Farms as the source of E. coli in Costco chicken salad that has been linked to an outbreak that has sickened 19 people in seven states, a Costco official said Wednesday.
Craig Wilson, Costco vice president of food safety and quality assurance, said he was told by the Food and Drug Administration that the strain of E. coli seems to be connected to an onion and celery mix.
The company uses one supplier for those vegetables in the chicken salad sold in all its U.S. stores, Wilson said.
Wilson identified the supplier as Taylor Farms in Salinas.
Crazies there.
The 38-year-old victim was at the Safeway parking lot on Forest Avenue about 9:30 a.m. when a woman asking for a job approached her. The victim offered the suspect a ride, not knowing she was armed with a handgun, Pacific Grove said.
Once in the car, the suspect took out the weapon and threatened to harm the mother and her children if she was not taken to a location in Salinas, police Sgt. Jeff Fenton said.
Salinas. Not a good place.
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