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Volunteers are still asked to help search for Sierra LaMar, 15, and some citizens from halfway across the country vow to travel to Morgan Hill just to help bring closure to the missing teen’s family. 

“Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” is one of the fanciest cartoons ever put on the screen. The jokes come so fast they’re nearly subliminal. Plot points whiz by and when things threaten to blur, there’s a crazy musical number or a tightly worked out physical comedy routine. Then it’s back on the bullet train. Your brain goes breathless. This one begins right where the previous story left off. Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) and the rest of the refugees from the Central Park Zoo are still stranded in Africa and yearning to get back where they belong. The rickety monkey-built plane from the last installment achieves liftoff, but the avaricious penguins and vainglorious King Julien the lemur (Sacha Baron Cohen) are, as usual, infuriating double-crossers, and our heroes are left to their own devices. With faultless cartoon logic, the menagerie scuba-dives to Monaco, where they make a shambles of the famed casino. With animal control officer Capt. Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand) in hot pursuit, they hide in a traveling circus, meeting new characters including Vitaly (Bryan Cranston), a growling, heavy-souled Siberian tiger. Capt. DuBois is the mirror image of the ineffectual gendarme, pursuing the runaway animals with ninja-like agility. She’s still French to the core, though, breaking into an extended Edith Piaf routine that will tickle kids even if they don’t get the context. A circus contract that could being the animals back to America sets up the finale, a spectacle of teamwork to the tune of Katy Perry’s “Firework” that ends the movie on a delirious high note.

About a month after police launched an investigation into the man who roams around door-to-door in Santa Clara County, allegedly looking for victims who will pay him upfront for landscaping he doesn’t complete, police arrested the alleged “landscape scammer” Monday night in Gilroy.

A Morgan Hill man was arrested after he allegedly ran two dogs to the point of heat exhaustion, resulting in the death of one of the animals, police said. 

Mount Madonna School is pleased to announce McKenzie Caborn and Kabir Ahluwalia as the 2012 senior class Co-Valedictorians, and Alex Hooven as Salutatorian.

Unified Narcotic Enforcement Team and the Morgan Hill Police Department served a narcotic related search warrant at a residence in the 15800 block of Hill Road and arrested Thomas Hasty, 28. 

Ethan Bennett is on a journey. It is an open-ended passage that, in this particular case, has a destination. But, in other aspects, it may never truly end.