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A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Tuesday afternoon two miles from Pinnacles National Monument, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 5:30 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 1.9 miles.

Another search-and-rescue effort to find missing 15-year-old Sierra LaMar is scheduled for today, and will include sheriff’s office dive teams searching underwater in South County reservoirs. 

San Benito High School School Board Trustee Tim Shellito has  announced his resignation.

Two simultaneous drug awareness presentations held in February at San Benito High School have created a divide of perceptions, with one district trustee in attendance that night calling it a display of racism and questioning why English and Spanish programs conveyed different messages.

Nearly 700 people from the South Bay and South Santa Clara Valley areas, and even a few from outside the state, trekked to Morgan Hill to volunteer their time in the search for missing teen Sierra LaMar, as police announced Tuesday their investigation has ruled out the possibility that she ran away on her own. 

Cami is a 5-year-old long haired Chihuahua who knows how to do tricks, loves to be scratched and is good with other dogs. She has been at the San Martin Animal Shelter since February and is ready to find a loving home. If you are interested in adopting this or any other animal at the shelter, please call (408) 686-3900.

Kids soon will be clamoring for baskets overflowing with jelly beans, chocolate bunnies and Robin Eggs candies – not to mention that plastic green grass that immediately goes in the garbage (if it’s not all over the carpet first). And, while fun, it all seems a little less than environmentally friendly. Fortunately there are some other options.

Hundreds of people from all over the South Bay and points farther south showed up to volunteer Tuesday morning for the search for Sierra LaMar, 15, who was reported missing from her north Morgan Hill home March 16.

Chalk up another looming casualty of the Internet age: business cards. Ubiquitous as pinstripes, the 2-by-3.5-inch pieces of card stock have long been a staple in executive briefcases.