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Jazmine Parra of Hollister was awarded first runner-up in the Miss Hispanidad International Teen pageant Sept. 29 in San Gabriel.

Marty Richman, 70, has long been a fixture at Hollister City Council and San Benito County board meetings. But if he wins his run for the inaugural mayoral race Nov. 6, he will be at the meetings in an official capacity for the first time.

Ignacio Velazquez wants to bring a business-like approach to Hollister government and remove barriers to help encourage new commerce here.

Keith Snow may be a relative newcomer to Hollister, but he has the desire to be a leader “for the people.”

Doug Emerson, 68, is a two-term Hollister city councilman who is running in the first elected mayor's race on Nov. 6.

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.