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The county has agreed to settle with a union and pay it $10,000 after being challenged over a long-held policy banning the employees from posting political signs on their personal property.

Hollister police early Thursday recovered the engulfed vehicle belonging to a 25-year-old Hollister woman who was reported as missing Wednesday after she failed to pick up her child and others from school.

HONOR: Susan Dodd: Susan Dodd was named Gavilan College's Employee of the Month for August 2012. Susan Dodd is an Instructor in the kinesiology and athletics department and has been with Gavilan College since 1976.

Police are looking for a man who shot one victim and struck another on the head with a hammer early Thursday morning in Morgan Hill.

UPDATE: At 4:44 p.m., the National Weather Service interrupted the Yankee baseball game on television to issue a severe thunderstorm warning in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. 

An apparent political and racist display aimed toward President Barack Obama at an east Morgan Hill residence hasn’t caused much of a stir within the immediate neighborhood which consists mostly of small farms and ranch houses, but has inspired widespread commentary on the Internet accusing the owner of racism and hatred.

San Benito County’s Republican Party last weekend posted a handful of large signs supporting presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The local party’s chairman on Wednesday reported that one of those signs was vandalized – so it now reads “Romney Lies” – and another was stolen.

Glowing accolades from the Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education topped off a whirlwind two years for the Garlic Capital's newest charter school, which is sailing full speed ahead toward its next milestone.

The 22nd annual giant pumpkin weigh-off is just days away and Uesugi Farm in San Martín is preparing for a great contest this year.