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Santa Cruz teen killed in drunken-driving crash after buying beer in Santa Cruz, CHP says
PAJARO -- A Santa Cruz teen died Thursday morning when the car he was driving veered into oncoming traffic and hit a dump truck head-on in North Monterey County. Two of his friends were seriously injured.
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Superintendents, students snarl in unison at proposed $4 billion in cuts
SANTA CRUZ -- After nearly 240 Santa Cruz County educators received notices of potential layoff last week, superintendents countywide handed out another slew of pink slips Thursday, but this time they were aimed at one person: the governor.
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Pilot desal plant up and pumping in Santa Cruz
SANTA CRUZ -- The first step down the long road to securing the area's future water supply was taken Thursday as a temporary test desalination plant on the Westside was switched on.
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Cabrillo feels the state budget squeeze
APTOS -- Cabrillo College students soon could face larger classes, longer lines for counseling and fewer open hours in the library as the state financial crisis forces the popular community college to trim millions from its budgets.
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Housing slump keeps people in Santa Cruz
Fewer people are fleeing the once prohibitively expensive coastal reaches of Northern California, according to U.S. Census Bureau numbers released Thursday.
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Santa Cruz police: Harbor rape probe 'top priority"™
The state Department of Justice crime lab is fast-tracking its analysis of fingerprints and DNA evidence collected after Wednesday's rape and robbery of a harbor coffee shop employee.
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Watsonville man sentenced to life for 2004 robbery-murder in Santa Cruz
A Watsonville gang member convicted of a 2004 robbery-murder in downtown Santa Cruz will spend the rest of his life in state prison.
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Capitola church offers a spiritual path on Good Friday
ShoreLife Community Church is offering a unique way to untangle knotty questions about faith this Good Friday: a labyrinth.
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PVWMA budgets cash for refund checks
On paper, the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency will have the $13.5 million it needs to settle all claims for illegally collected fees by October.
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Young white shark cruises to Mexico in record time
Just 44 days after a young white shark left the Monterey Bay Aquarium, he's cruised past Cabo San Lucas and is swimming for the warm waters off the coast of mainland Mexico.
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Cops and Courts
Santa Cruz
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Setting it Straight
A chart on Page C5 Thursday included financial information about Bank of America California, based in San Francisco, but omitted information about Bank of America N.A., based in Charlotte, N.C. That entity has assets of $1.269 trillion, year-to-date income of $11.6 billion and a rating of three and one half stars for the fourth quarter.
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Coast Lines
WATSONVILLE
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Harbor coffee shop employee raped, robbed; attacker still on the loose
SANTA CRUZ -- Police are searching for a man who raped a coffee shop employee at knife-point, robbed the store where she works and tried to lock her in a storage freezer Wednesday morning.
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Mexico refuses Central Coast strawberries
PAJARO VALLEY -- A small pest delivered a hefty blow to Central Coast strawberry growers Wednesday, as growers learned of the Mexican government's decision to refuse all crops that are planted, refrigerated or packed within a 1.9-mile radius of a reported light brown apple moth.
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Santa Cruz activists mourn fifth anniversary of Iraq war
SANTA CRUZ -- Amalia Gonzalez stepped to the microphone, got out "Hi everybody," and almost simultaneously started to sniffle.
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Teen sentenced to life for La Selva Beach party murder
SANTA CRUZ -- The 19-year-old man convicted of murdering a Watsonville athlete at a party two years ago wept briefly during his sentencing hearing Wednesday but did not apologize to the family of the man he stabbed 12 times.
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Officials: UCSC ready as it can be for campus gunman
As the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting rampage draws near, UC Santa Cruz officials say their campus is about as prepared as it can be for such a scenario or other emergency, but they are striving to do even more.
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Cycle shop owner gears up for bike-building reality show
An "American Idol-esque" version of building custom choppers has made a Santa Cruz cycle shop the star of an upcoming episode.
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Conservation leader honored at annual ag luncheon
Rich Casale, who has supported soil and water conservation in Santa Cruz County for more than 30 years, received one of local agriculture's highest awards Wednesday.
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