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Rooftop Burglars Nabbed By Police
Not-so-stealthy cat burglars foiled after a rooftop heist at Zelda’s in Captiola.
Man Uses Library to Trade Kiddy Porn
Former Red Cross volunteered caught with thousands of pornographic images of children.
Santa Cruz County and Cities Preparing to Sue the State
Local governments join 200 cities around the state to put the brakes on forced lending.
Berry Damage: Moth or Myth?
There has been much recent media coverage on the damage to raspberries in Watsonville, damage purportedly caused by the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM). But was the damage caused by LBAM or by any of the more than 80 leafroller moths that are native to California? Was it caused by one of the five other leafrollers that are common in Santa Cruz County? All leafrollers inflict the same kind of damage.
Santa Cruz City Council Circus
Funny beyond words.
Santa Cruz County Bank on the Mend
Santa Cruz County Bank announced that its second quarter net income had improved significantly from Q1, but that it was still only one-third of what it was in Q2 of 2008.
Even Shakespeare Takes a Hit in a Bad Economy
“He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends,” Shakespeare wrote in As You Like It,, and while Shakespeare Santa Cruz may have rich content, it is still wanting for the two other friends—money and means
Speeding Ticket Leads to Drug Bust
When Detective Tate Howe asked David Sosa Mendez to pull over on Water Street, it was for speeding and driving erratically.
Santa Cruz Cougar Night Misunderstood
I’ll level with you. I walked into the Single Professional Society’s first ever Santa Cruz Cougar Night at the Scotts Valley Hilton last week thinking it would be a convenient anecdotal doorway to my personal opinions on the term “cougar.” Those are, in a nutshell, that the term has been fallaciously embraced by single women over 40 as some kind of womanpower thingy. Allow me to remind everyone: the term is not flattering.
