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News & Information for the Santa Cruz Mountains, the towns of Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek, Felton and Zayante in San Lorenzo Valley and the community of Scotts Valley.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
- Best Bets: March 13, 2010: 'Doubt'
Doubt' Presented by Jewel Theatre Company. Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winning Doubt' by John Patrick Shanley is a drama exploring the consequences of suspicion and moral certainty when Sister Aloysius, an old-school nun and principal, challenges a progressive priest she thinks is interfering' with one of her students.
- Cops and Courts: March 13, 2010: Reward offered for information about vandals
Santa Cruz Reward offered for vandals The Sheriff's Office offered a $1,000 reward Friday for information leading to prosecution of the vandal or vandals who have thrown rocks and shattered windows of more than 70 homes, businesses and cars since January.
- Coroner: Woman killed in fight with boyfriend died from multiple impacts to head
FELTON -- The woman killed in a fight with her boyfriend last month died of a cerebral contusion due to multiple impacts to the head, the Santa Cruz County Coroner's Office said Friday.
- Election deadline passes with no last-minute candidates jumping into the fray
SANTA CRUZ The doors of the county Elections Office closed quietly Friday, the deadline to file to run for office in June, with no last-minute candidates jumping into the local fray.
- Outspoken Sant Cruz City Council critic Robert Norse to get another day in court
SANTA CRUZ -- An 11-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Friday it will rehear the case of a man arrested for refusing to leave a Santa Cruz City Council meeting.
- Judge's ruling that BlackBerry search was improper quashes Larkin Valley guns, drug case
SANTA CRUZ -- Judge Robert Atack on Friday gutted felony gun and drug charges against a Larkin Valley father and son, ruling deputies erred in looking through the son's BlackBerry during a search of his car.
- Mother, son reunited after more than two years
SANTA CRUZ -- Sandi Chrones waited for more than two years to see her 10-year-old son. Thursday night, her prayers were answered when he stepped off a plane at the San Jose airport thanks to inspector Raul Castellanos of the county District Attorney's Office.
- Maldonado to Newsom: Bring it on
State Sen. Abel Maldonado, recently tapped by the governor to replace former Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, said Friday he's unfazed by his latest rival for the lieutenant governor seat: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
- Friday's rain expected to give way to clear skies
SANTA CRUZ -- After nearly two inches of rain fell in the Santa Cruz mountains on Friday, skies should be blue and the air breezy today and all next week.
- Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard: Migrating shorelines
In the scale of geologic time, the coastline of California, like the coastline of any area on Earth, is a very temporary feature.
San Jose Mercury
- Alleged parental child abduction takes Santa Cruz County investigator to Georgia in search of 10-year-old
SANTA CRUZ — Sandi Chrones waited for more than two years to see her 10-year-old son.Thursday night, her prayers were answered when he stepped off a plane at the San Jose airport thanks to inspector Raul Castellanos of the Santa Cruz County District Attorney's Office.
- Judge's ruling that Blackberry search was improper guts guns, drug case
SANTA CRUZ — Judge Robert Atack Friday gutted felony gun and drug charges against a Larkin Valley father and son, ruling that deputies erred in looking through the son's Blackberry during a search of his car.
- Man ordered out of Santa Cruz council meeting for giving Nazi salute to get new day in court
SANTA CRUZ — An 11-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Friday it will rehear the case of a man arrested for refusing to leave a Santa Cruz City Council meeting.
- Santa Cruz County Coroner: Woman killed in fight with boyfriend died from multiple impacts to head
FELTON — The woman killed in a fight with her boyfriend last month died of a cerebral contusion as a result of multiple impacts to the head, the Santa Cruz County Coroner's Office said Friday.
- Santa Cruz County tourists: More repeat visitors, day-trippers; fewer first-timers, overnight guests
SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County tourists are a generally satisfied bunch, with 76 percent being repeat visitors.
- UC Santa Cruz one of Forbes' most beautiful campuses
SANTA CRUZ — Whether because of the trees, the trails, the ocean views or wildlife, UC Santa Cruz has been named one of the world's most beautiful colleges by Forbes Magazine.
- Simitian bill takes aim at big pension payouts for public employees
Tapping into public resentment toward government pay perks, state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, has introduced legislation that would put limits on the retirement benefits of government workers.
- Coastal Commission delay Arana Gulch vote
SANTA CRUZ - After more than four hours of public testimony about the Arana Gulch Master Plan, the California Coastal Commission voted Thursday night to continue the matter.
- California Coastal Commission to decide 15-year Arana Gulch battle today
SANTA CRUZ — The California Coastal Commission today will settle a prolonged battle over the future of Arana Gulch, a 68-acre greenbelt that is home to the federally protected Santa Cruz tarplant.
- Hope, cynicism surface on 15-year anniversary of Pajaro flood
WATSONVILLE — In the early morning of March 11, 1995, a rain-swollen Pajaro River punched through the levee upstream of Watsonville and poured across Monterey County farmland and into Pajaro.