Santa Cruz Sentinel Articles

By Steve Karnowski | Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former President Donald Trump will head to Minnesota on a day off from his hush money trial for a Republican fundraiser Friday night in a traditionally Democratic state that he …

By Zachary Cohen, Shania Shelton and Kyung Lah | CNN
Former Donald Trump lawyer John Eastman pleaded not guilty in Phoenix on Friday on charges related to allegedly participating in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona. …

By DAVID BAUDER (AP Media Writer)
NEW YORK (AP) — The planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that were swiftly organized this week are a coup for CNN and ABC News — but a virtual guarantee they’ll …

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk.
A photo of 22-year-old Shani’s twisted body in the …

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and JON GAMBRELL (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli …

SANTA CRUZ A recently released assessment of Project Roomkey, the pandemic-era emergency homeless motel housing, highlighted Santa Cruz County as one of five community case studies.
The two-year statewide assessment of Project Roomkey’s outcomes was commissioned jointly by the nonprofit …

SANTA CRUZ   Santa Cruz city staff gave an update Tuesday on the long-contested project that combines a new downtown branch of the Santa Cruz Library with a parking garage and affordable housing units, known as the Downtown Library and Affordable …

LIVE OAK The Santa Cruz Community Farmers' Market in Live Oak will stay put at least through early next year, according to a representative from the local nonprofit.
Market Executive Director Nesh Dhillon told the Sentinel in an email this …

Two California scrub jays roost on utility lines on Laurel Street in Santa Cruz during a break from foraging. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)

SAN JOSE — A residential development that would produce hundreds of homes near downtown San Jose has advanced with a property purchase and a financing package to construct the housing, public records show.
The housing project is slated to consist …

By Jim Vertuno | Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a full pardon Thursday for a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police …

WATSONVILLE In the next few years, even as soon as three months, students at Moreland Notre Dame School will be undergoing a major transition: They will be starting high school.
As the school year comes to a close, this is …

Corinne Purtill | Los Angeles Times (TNS)
You feel a cold coming on, or maybe it's already upon you: the telltale cough, sore throat and stuffy head. You swing by the drugstore, where a shelf full of over-the-counter products containing …

Zach Dyer | KFF Health News (TNS)
Bill Thompson’s wife had never seen him smile with confidence. For the first 20 years of their relationship, an infection in his mouth robbed him of teeth, one by one.
“I didn’t have …

Michael Scaturro | KFF Health News (TNS)
When dermatologist Adewole “Ade” Adamson sees people spritzing sunscreen as if it’s cologne at the pool where he lives in Austin, Texas, he wants to intervene. “My wife says I shouldn’t,” he said, …

LIVE OAK
Spring over to the Santa Cruz Garden Exchange
Join fellow gardeners for the free monthly Santa Cruz Garden Exchange from 8-9 a.m. May 25 in the parking lot of Santa Cruz Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa …

By MOLLY CRANE-NEWMAN and JOSEPHINE STRATMAN, New York Daily News
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s longtime fixer-turned-foe, is slated to face a full day of cross-examination Thursday as the former president’s legal team seeks to poke holes in his story and …

By Lindsay Whitehurst | Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift in generations of U.S. drug policy.
A proposed rule sent to the federal …

By BILL BARROW and MATT BROWN (Associated Press)
ATLANTA (AP) — When he gives the commencement address at Morehouse College, President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war at …

By JONATHAN J. COOPER (Associated Press)
PHOENIX (AP) — The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, which has planned presidential faceoffs in every election since 1988, has an uncertain future after President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump struck an …