Mourners aboard the Chardonnay release the ashes of the Houghton family and scatter flowers in their memory into Monterey Bay Wednesday morning. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
A mourner tosses a flower into the water off Lighthouse Point in memory of the Houghton family Wednesday as their ashes were scattered in Monterey Bay. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
Good cheer prevails amidst the crowd of Wharf to Wharf runners as they crest the hill on East Cliff Drive Sunday morning. (Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)
The crowd at the finish line cheers on two young finishers that stopped the clock at 35:29. The two, wearing identical numbers, didn't start the race, but still enjoyed crossing over the finish line at full speed. (John Williams/Sentinel)
Runners cool off their legs in the ocean after completing the Wharf to Wharf race on Sunday. (John Williams/Sentinel)
The uninjured apprentice pilot takes in the scene after he crashed this crop-dusting helicopter in a lettuce field outside of Watsonville, Wednesday, July 20, 2011. (Dan Coyro/Sentinel)
Helicopter owner Frank Gomes talks with an investigating CHP officer along Highway 129 Wednesday. (Dan Coyro/Sentinel)
The helicopter sheared off this power pole before crashing. (Dan Coyro/Sentinel)
Helicopter owner Frank Gomes and the apprentice pilot put up caution tape around the crash scene as PG&E crews work on the damaged power pole in the background. (Dan Coryo/Sentinel)
The driver of the this Chrysler Concorde died on the scene from injuries delivered in a wreck caused by a driver heading the wrong way on Highway 17 in the silver Acura SUV at rear under the Highway 1 overpass Monday afternoon. Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Mike Huhn separates a charred shoe from the wreckage of a plane that crashing into Watsonville Community Hospital Thursday, killing two adults and two children aboard. Dan Coyro/Sentinel
The scene of a plane crash Thursday at Watsonville Community Hospital. (JOHN WILLIAMS/SENTINEL)
A seven hour standoff in Watsonville ended early Tuesday morning after the Sheriffs Office SWAT team entered the house to find the two inside dead. Photographic coverage of the event was provided by Shmuel Thaler and myself, John Williams.
Silhouettes of a SWAT team enter the house on Lawrence Ave around midnight where a seven hour standoff ended with two dead in Watsonville. (John Williams/Sentinel)
Volunteers pick up trash on Twin Lakes State Beach Tuesday morning. (Dan Coyro/Sentinel)
Save Our Shores Sanctuary Steward Curtis Luckado weighs July 4th trash collected at Seabright Beach early Tuesday morning. Dan Coyro/Sentinel
Santa Cruz Main Beach is littered with trash Tuesday morning, left by July 4th reveler slobs. Dan Coyro/Sentinel
Benji Amezquita works his way towards his victory against Marcel Siprein on Saturday during the Coastal Collision III MMA event. (John Williams/Sentinel)