SF News Large Cat Rescued From Ditch In Santa Cruz, a young mountain lion accidentally wandered into downtown this morning, only to find out that it was not cut out for urban life. The mountain lion was spotted, stuck in
SF News Storm Watch 2013: Santa Cruz's Most Wanted Is Still On The Loose, Impervious To Tazers After we learned all about serial joyrider Dmitri Storm yesterday, the Santa Cruz Sheriff's Department held a press conference to lay out even more details about their current most wanted suspect, who also
SF News Santa Cruz's Most Wanted Is A 42-Year-Old Master Of Dude Disguises Meet the Santa Cruz Sheriff Department's current most wanted suspect: 42-year-old Dmitri Koa Storm, a.k.a. "Dragon," a.k.a. "Wushen," a.k.a. "Casey." Wanted for string of 10 auto thefts
SF News Video: Police Confiscate $15,000 Joint During 4/20 Smoke Out At UCSC While things may have gotten violent in Golden Gate Park on 4/20, on the campus of the UC Santa Cruz the annual marijuana celebration was getting heavy in a completely different way.
Arts & Entertainment Video: This Head-Bobbing Sea Lion Has Better Rhythm Than You Have you ever yearned to see a California sea lion groove to "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys? Well, want no more. Ronan, a 4-year-old sea lion rescued from Highway 1 in San Luis
SF News Student Accused Of Staging Fake UCSC Rape Attack Through Craigslist You recall the fake rape report that went down in February at UC Santa Cruz, right? Well, the suspect in question, oddly described by NY Daily News as a "visiting brunette" from UC
SF News Santa Cruz Homeless Man Threatens To Blow Up Congressman Over Rejected Lunch Date Santa Cruz homeless person Stephen Brown, seen here photographed in his county orange by the local sheriff's department, was arrested earlier this week after threatening to blow up Congressman Sam Farr's office because
SF News Watch Memorial For Slain Santa Cruz Officers Live Right now at HP Pavilion, as many as 20,000 officers, officials and civilians have gathered to mourn the deaths of Sgt. Loran "Butch" Baker and Detective Elizabeth Butler. The noted officers were
SF News Police Say Woman Lied About UC Santa Cruz Rape The 21-year-old woman who told police she was beaten and raped while walking along a wooded area on the UCSC campus has reportedly confessed to investigators that, in fact, the attack was a
SF News Awesome Santa Cruz Parents Fight Back Home-Invasion 'Banditos' He's no homeless hatchet-wielding hitchhiker, but he'll do. Yarry Gonzalez and his wife, parents of two, woke up to two drunk "completely incompetent" would-be robbers (or worse) hovering above their bed. The creeps
Arts & Entertainment Police Release Sketch UC Santa Cruz Rapist Santa Cruz police released a sketch of a man who beat and raped a visiting 21-year-old woman visiting the UCSC campus on Sunday afternoon. According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the suspect is
SF News Woman Raped, Beaten On UC Santa Cruz Campus A 21-year-old woman survived being raped and beaten while visiting the UCSC campus Sunday afternoon. The suspect, described as "a white man in his 30s with pale skin and a round-shaped face," attacked
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Glorious, Elaborate, Almodovar-Inspired Trailer for the Hard French Winter Ball Please enjoy this lengthy (10 minute) but totally worth it tribute to Almodovar created by Aron Kantor (a.k.a. DirtyGlitter), and starring Ambrosia Salad and Stanley Frank. It's a promotional trailer, of
SF News Trans Basketball Player Receives Warm Welcome In Santa Cruz Trans woman Gabrielle Ludwig, who had the distinction this past December of becoming the first trans woman to play college basketball, has been receiving the sort of shitty reception at basketball games that
Arts & Entertainment 'The Lost Boys' Celebrates 25 Years Of Cool Vampires and Dim-Witted Mothers You know The Lost Boys was shot partly in Santa Cruz, right? And the fictional town of Santa Carla, with that beach boardwalk and those sexy teenage vampires? Yep, Santa Cruz, except with
SF News Santa Cruz Animal Shelter Looking For Traveling Kitty's Owner We realize we're a little late to this delightful story, which was making the rounds late last week, but we hope it brightens your Monday nonetheless. The folks down at the Santa Cruz
SF News Car Plows Through Occupy Demonstrators At UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz students and professors are taking part today in a massive protest to state education cuts. It's all part of peaceful Occupy Education rallies occurring at numerous UC and CSU schools,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Manresa's David Kinch: GQ Chef Of The Year Noted chef David Kinch scored GQ's annual Chef of the Year award this year. "In a world of Molto food empires and spiky-haired TV hosts," GQ scribe Charles Bowden writes, "David Kinch is
SF News SFist Blotter: More Shootings In Oakland Last Night; Santa Cruz Auto Shop Gets Busted for Dealing Drugs Tenderloin / Baseball Bat Assault: A 72-year-old man was attacked by a man in his 20s with a baseball bat around 1:25 a.m. this morning for no apparent reason. The attacker stole
Arts & Entertainment Guy With Enormous Personal Junkyard Outside Santa Cruz to Be Featured on 'Hoarders' Tonight Menlo Park resident Roy Kaylor, who owns a 150-acre parcel of land in Boulder Creek, north of Santa Cruz, where he keeps hundreds of rusted out vehicles, is going to be featured on
SF News Dead Body Santa Cruz Man's Roommate A 63-year-old Santa Cruz man had been living with a dead body for the last week. Which? Creepy. The Examiner's Mike Aldex reports: "Parolee John Clauer has allegedly been playing house with a
