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The Santa Clara County Coroner's Office has released the identity of the man who was shot and killed in an unincorporated neighborhood just east of Gilroy Saturday morning.

The start of the New Year also signaled the official kick-off for some local offices as well.

In a special meeting Monday night, the Hollister City Council voted 4-0 to designate the City of Hollister as the “Successor Agency” and “Successor Housing Agency” to the Hollister Redevelopment Agency in the event the RDA is dissolved as required by current state law.

An adult male was injured seriously in a two-vehicle accident Monday morning on McCray Street near the Save Mart shopping center.

A motivational speaker last week had San Benito High School teachers and administrators dancing at their tables, hyperventilating over vocabulary and fired up about increasing state test scores in local schools.

A number of San Benito County wineries were honored in the 2012 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, which bills itself as the largest competition of American wines in the world. A record 5,500 entries competed for medals that were awarded by a panel of 65 judges, with winners announced Friday.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department says a man was shot and killed in an unincorporated area just east of Gilroy Saturday morning.

Racial tensions and segregation concerns over an affordable housing proposal on the west side added to an already chaotic public hearing Tuesday, as city council members repeatedly traded barbs with speakers and fostered an open, heated dialogue that defied open-meeting rules.

Someone who purchased a Mega Millions lottery ticket in Gilroy won $92,554 during the Jan. 3 drawing - but that person isn't aware of his/her good fortune, or just hasn't gotten around to claiming it yet.