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Highway Patrol officer Dave Bruestle interviews truck driver Jose DaRosa while officer Sarah Jackson interviews Sean O'Brien after O'Brien's Dodge Intrepid got caught under the trailer and dragged by DaRosa's sand truck on northbound Highway 1 south of Seacliff State Beach on Tuesday.

Nearly every Friday for the past eight years, Jean Pirana has stood at the curb on Main Street in front of the City Plaza downtown with signs urging an end to war.

Janet Manzano took her son David Rojas, 5, to school Friday to get vaccinated. She was one of several parents taking advantage of the opening day of a clinic at Freedom Elementary School to get their children protection against the H1N1 flu.

Manuel Rodrigues was feeling pretty good about business on Oct. 17, 1989. A year and half earlier, the 25-year-old and his 24-year-old brother, Carlos, had bought and remodeled the downtown Ace Hardware store with money put up by their parents, Portuguese immigrants who had come to Watsonville from the Azores when the brothers were 11 and 12.

Is such bureaucracy really necessary to shake out the ground rules for dancing downtown? A little common sense, a look at the laws currently on the books that could potentially shut down a rogue establishment and, perhaps, some hot-steppin' background tunes should do the trick.

A man convicted of shooting into a Freedom warehouse during a party in 1993, killing 18-year-old Santa Rosa college student Gabe Ceasar and injuring five others, was denied parole during a hearing Tuesday at the California Training Facility, a state prison in Soledad, the District Attorney's Office reported.

The North Peninsula Chapter of the ACLU of Northern California invites you to a local reproductive rights film screening and panel discussion.

After 45 years of flying the skies over the Pajaro Valley on Memorial Day weekend, the board of the Watsonville Fly In Air Show has voted to break tradition and move the event to Labor Day weekend effective 2010.

Someone fired about five shots at a Freedom Boulevard home late Thursday but no one was hurt, Watsonville police reported.

A would-be burglar armed with a shotgun woke up a neighborhood on the outskirts of town Thursday morning when he fired at least one round at the house he was trying to break into, the Sheriff's Office reported.

Ike Mumpower, owner of Mumpower Sign Supply, has developed a program to support America's troops overseas and hopes the idea will catch on with big business to make a big difference.

Dustin Lance Black testifies in favor of Harvey Milk Day. On September 3rd, 2009 the California Assembly passed Senate Bill 572 , legislation that creates Harvey Milk Day in California, and honors the state's first openly gay elected official.

After raucous town hall meetings in Santa Cruz and Monterey in August, Rep. Sam Farr made his pitch for health care reform in the more subdued surroundings of a Freedom Rotary Club lunch Tuesday at the Green Valley Grill.

Freedom Boulevard was shut down at Hames Road for about two hours Wednesday afternoon while emergency crews worked to clear the scene of a major crash.

Freedom Boulevard was shut down at Hames Road for about two hours Wednesday afternoon while emergency crews worked to clear the scene of a major crash.

Hear speaker Eyal Rozenberg, an anarchist visiting from Israel, speak at this monthly Alexander Berkman Social Club meeting on the interrelationship of ethnicity and class in Israel and Palestine.

Despite the rivalry between the city of Watsonville and the ex-promoter of the Strawberry Festival at Monterey Bay, people thronged both of Watsonville's dueling berry festivals on Saturday.

Educators who studied the need for more preschool services in Santa Cruz County have found that language, income, ethnicity and the education level of parents are factors in whether students attend early childhood education programs and what kind of care parents choose.

Blues rocker Shane Dwight poses with his guitar in a photo for his latest two internationally-distributed albums that he released in June.