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Although it's California's second-smallest county, crops in Santa Cruz County were worth $450 million last year to place in the state's top 20 agricultural counties.

A resident of Green Valley Road reported Friday that almost $8,000 in cash was stolen from his garage the previous night, sheriff's deputies reported.

Generations of mosquitoes may come and go before officials in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties ... ``Seeing such a tremendous jump, I'm left with the impression that West Nile virus is being used to develop new revenue sources,'' said Bob Nystrom, a business coach from Mountain View.

Los Angeles thrashers CERBERUS have announced the dates for their West Coast tour in support of their new album, "The Cage of Existence". The group's itinerary is shaping up as follows: Jun.

LIVE OAK , He made it back after two deployments in Iraq, physically unscathed. But U.S. Marine Lance Cpl.

It's official: Summer has arrived and with it our semiannual lifestyle change, which includes the ... (Noble Wines, 206-326-5274) 2003 Ca'del Solo Big House Red Big House Red is made by the sometimes wacky folks at Bonny Doon Vineyard winery in Santa Cruz, Calif.

The weather is heating up, and border patrol agents are clamping down, but as long as businesses ... "These people, I have a ton of respect for them for what they do to have to cross that border," said Stephanie Woodward of Santa Cruz, California.

SANTA CRUZ , Friends of Locally Owned Water has spent $8,563 this year in its campaign for Measure W, the Felton water buyout ballot.

Santa Cruz County sheriff's deputies arrested a suspect today in a rash of commercial burglaries, according to Chief Deputy Terry Parker.

Evans Data Corporation, the leader in developer focused research and reporting, is pleased to announce the 2nd Developer Relations Conference: Effective Developer Relations Strategies, on October 13-14, 2005 at ...

WATSONVILLE , Joe Antonetti says Granite Rock Co. gave him the tools to advance his career.

Philip Chigos and Mary Domenico are busy building a children's pajama business ... Lengquist, a real estate agent in Santa Cruz, Calif.

The California Supreme Court is cracking down on amusement park safety by giving parks more responsibility of maintaining their rides and making it easier for people to file lawsuits if they get hurt.

SALINAS , Monterey County leaders left the door open for a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter in Pajaro, but they didn't put out the welcome mat.

Skype Technologies' strategy of welcoming third-party vendors is spawning numerous extensions to ... The Santa Cruz, California, company has developed technology that lets each user get the best possible video performance for their network connection, he said.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Two hundred hours into the job, with 50 more to go, Matthew Stark blew the sawdust from the mahogany dining table he was building in his two-car garage in Santa Cruz, Calif.

SANTA CRUZ , Fond memories of Santa Cruz come up often in conversation with Sandi Eason, the newly named president and chief executive officer of Coast Commercial Bank.

Moving closer to the goal of finding a planet just like home, astronomers this week announced ... But given the recent advances in planet detection, the discovery bodes well for finding habitable planets, comments theorist Doug Lin of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

In these days of Watergate secrets being newly disclosed, the conspiracy behind jazz great Charles Lloyd's triumphant four-decade run as a bandleader can be revealed, as well.

Nobody knows what Louden Nelson looked like. That doesn't dampen sculptor Barrington McLean's passionate drive to carve a bust of Santa Cruz's first black resident, philanthropist and education advocate.

The leader of the Cedar Rapids Area Convention & Visitors Bureau since November 1994 has resigned ... Before coming to Cedar Rapids, Dexter worked in the Santa Cruz, Calif.

It's summer! After spending 10 months stuck in school, dreaming of being at the beach, it's finally time to grab some friends, a couple of good books and head to the ocean.

John Laird remembers when the Highway 1/17 improvement project was first proposed, 19 years ago ... Now the Democrat from Santa Cruz who helped plan the project might , as chair of the state assembly's budget committee , help find ways to pay for it, too.

A foundation of Kaiser Permanente Northwest gave the grant to the network, founded in 2000 to develop an information infrastructure for the clinics, which treat the medically underserved.

A family has settled a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service charging that a vial of meningitis was tucked inside a package sent to their home.

SANTA CRUZ , Doug Grude isn't technically Japanese. But the veteran master of ceremonies at the Santa Cruz Japanese Cultural Fair knows his stuff.

Inhabiting a world of publicists and promoters, most major pop stars are isolated in a bubble of artifice.

This afternoon, a prescient friend sent me a link to a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about Steven Ward, a UC Santa Cruz researcher who models tsunamis caused both by earthquakes and by meteorites.

Want to know what concerts are coming up? How about checking out movie reviews, concert reviews, ... It's all at www.SantaCruzLive.com , the Sentinel's Web site with information on trends, music, pop culture and what's cool in Santa Cruz County.

Somebody needed to invent the wheel, somebody needed to invent the novel--and author Daniel Clowes needed to invent the Narraglyphic Picto-Assemblage. At least, that's how his character Harry Naybors describes ...

Employers are continuing to join coalitions in an attempt to increase their influence in a number ... Bolen, director of employer research for the Health Industries Research Companies, an independent, nonpartisan Santa Cruz, Calif.

SANTA CRUZ , After observing the stars and planets, ancients parsed what they saw into constellations.

'As a festival dedicated solely to doing new orchestral music we're unique," Executive director Ellen Primack says of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.

Jony Lee Duckworth, already in prison for killing a Contra Costa County woman in 1996, was sentenced to an additional 25 years Friday in Santa Cruz County Superior Court for strangling and sexually assaulting a ...

Colossal-budget movie superheroes are weird and boring, and I would never want to be one.