SF News Santa Cruz Inmate Escapes Custody, Then Gets Nabbed Santa Cruz was on the edge of its seat yesterday during the intense hunt for escaped fugitive Maurice Lamont Ainsworth Jr., who had escaped police custody yesterday while at Dominican Hospital for an
SF News Meth-Infused Driver Arrested Near Amgen Tour of California Oh dear. This fractured face here is in all sorts of trouble after allegedly trying to mow down pedestrians near the Amgen Tour of California route on Tuesday afternoon. According to BCN (via
SF News SF Man Arrested After Santa Cruz Tagging Orgy A 25-year-old San Francisco man was tossed in the Santa Cruz County on Saturday morning, accused of allegedly tagging a cop car and "vandalizing property across the city and causing $8,000 worth
SF News Protesters Block UCSC Entrance During 'Day of Action' Protest In honor of a Day of Statewide Action for Public Education, protesters at UC Santa Cruz are trying to make sure students don't receive one. As of this morning, UCSC students and employees
SF News "Deeply Disturbing" Noose Scribbled On Bathroom Door at UCSC Next to never flushing, anus shaving in the mirror, coded toe-taping on the floor, and other hygiene-free experiences -- daily occurrences at your SFist editor's alma mater -- another shocking incident happened inside
SF News Santa Cruz Outdoor Smoking Ban Starts Today If you're heading down to Santa Cruz this weekend to buy and take illicit drugs -- a common practice in a city that seems to have crashed into the side of California --
Arts & Entertainment Gay Family Day at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 10/3 Are you of the gay persuasion? Do you have a family? Do you like old roller coasters? Do you like Dipping Dots? Well, you're in luck. The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, a seaside
SF News Bonny Doon Fire Continues More than 2,400 residents are under a mandatory evacuation as the Bonny Doon wildfire continues to singe over 4,100 acres. So far, the blaze has torched two unidentified structures. As of
SF News Bonny Doon Wildfire Roars Hundreds of residents have fled their homes after a Santa Cruz county wildfire in Bonny Doon started last night. According to CBS 5, "authorities have ordered mandatory evacuations for about 600 people on
SF News UCSC Students Protest Budget Cuts Via Hunger Strike Dozens of students and staff at the University of California at Santa Cruz have gone on a hunger strike "in order to bring attention to $13 million in state funding being cut at
SF News Man Arrested in Conection with Santa Cruz Mountain Fires Almost a year after the Santa Cruz Mountains were set ablaze, authorities arrested Channing Verden, a contractor hired to clear brush in the mountainous terrain, for arson. According to the Merc, "Verden has
SF News Phone Outage Affects Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties Thousands of Santa Clara, San Benito, and Santa Cruz county residents are currently without phone service this morning. They can't even call 911 in case of an emergency. Why? Because of an old,
SF News Vandals Attack UC/Santa Cruz Campus While the banana slugs are on break for the holidays, hooligans went on a vandalism spree on Wednesday night at the UCSC campus. According to reports, the unidentified misfits damaged "up to 20
SF News Santa Cruz Cyclist Stabs Motorist Authorities are looking for, oh dear, "a bicyclist in Santa Cruz who fled after allegedly stabbing a motorist during a confrontation." It seems there was some sort of heated driver-to-cyclist confrontation today, which
misc Pierre the Rapist Caught Pierre Anton, of France, was arrested last night in connection with the brutal rape of a local woman along the San Lorenzo River early Saturday morning. In the states via a non-profit organization
SF News "Santa Cruz Police Seek Rape Suspect; May Be French" (A fun headline, yes?) Two people interrupted a rape in progress in Santa Cruz near the river levee last Saturday afternoon. The assailant -- who used a French passport to enter Rosie McCann's,
SF News Santa Cruz Wildfire Update: 0% Containment Just letting you know that the fire -- which as of late this afternoon has consumed thousands of acres since it started at around 5:30 a.m. this morning -- is "completely
SF News Santa Cruz Wildfire: Animal, Human Evacuation Info For those of you fire victims with large animals (i.e., horses, emus, et al.) or even not so large animals (i.e., Sprinkles, et al.), a Capitola reader just informed us that
SF News Wildfire Runs, Well, Wild In Santa Cruz Mountains, 2,000+ Acres Torched Huge plumes of smoke can be seen mushrooming over the Santa Cruz Mountains just above Ben Lomand due to a rapidly growing wildfire. It's gone from 100 acres to well over 1,000
SF News Missing Santa Cruz Teen Found "Gorked" Young whippersnapper, Santa Cruz resident 18-year-old Matthew Rosenberg, called his mom on Monday to tell her he had "tripped, broke his leg and was lost" in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He was half
misc From the Editor's Inbox: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Prejudice from: [name redacted] to: [email protected] date: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:46 PM subject: cologne and santa cruz Mr. Brock, While I appreciate your coverage of the spray situation I
SF News Light Brown Apple Moth Spray Off Today a major setback struck the final solution, if you will, against the light brown apple moth. Superior Court Judge Paul Burdick ruled that "aerial pesticide sprays must halt over Santa Cruz County
SF News Buzz-Killing UCSC Officials Puts the Kibosh on 4/20 Perhaps due to the many squares of acid or complete the lack of sex, we don't remember UC Santa Cruz demigods coming down so hard on 4/20. But SFBG's crusty-but-benign (and victorious!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Late '90s Santa Cruz band the Huxtables headline a night of "fun rock" tunes. Take, for example, the song their dedicated to Dungeons & Dragons, "Dungeon Master," which they had to revise
SF News SHAC7 Claims No Responsibility for UCSC Researcher Attack We just made contacted with a member of the reportedly elusive SHAC7. They told us the following: No--we are not responsible. In fact, the only knowledge we have of the whole ordeal is
