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• Big Sur: Both lanes of Highway 1 open at Rocky Creek
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• US Department of Education freezes $10 million in funds promised to Santa Cruz County
  SANTA CRUZ — The Santa Cruz County Office of Education announced Thursday that millions in federal funds previ…
• University of California reiterates ban on student government boycotts of Israel
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• Editorial | July 4, 2025: Declaring our independence
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• Eric Pohlkamp’s hat trick, Michael Misa’s assist highlight Sharks prospect scrimmage, end of development camp
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• Photo | Crash in Santa Cruz leaves two injured
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• Confederacy group sues Georgia park for planning an exhibit on slavery and segregation
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• DA: East Bay woman’s boyfriend trained her to ‘take the fall’ for his crimes, even after he killed her
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• Uncertainty of future FEMA disaster funding alarms Bay Area emergency planners
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• Horoscopes July 4, 2025: Melanie Fiona, plan to entertain more
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• Word Game: July 4, 2024
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• Miss Manners: What’s the rule about giving an ultimatum to a friend?
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• Dear Abby: My parents won’t let me move out until I repay them for college
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• First Friday at Cruzio Featuring Liminal Space!
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• Faster Internet Coming to Coastside San Mateo
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• 🎨 First Friday at CruzioWorks!🎨
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• Black-footed Cats
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• The Fourth
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• How the Weather Could Make Your Fireworks Fizzle
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• Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Is Stripped of Dutch Citizenship
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• Is This Really How We’re Legislating Now?
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• How Republicans Re-engineered the Tax Code
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• BBC on French beach as police slash migrant 'taxi-boat' heading to UK
  Such an unusual intervention in the English Channel could be a sign that French…
• Watch: French police wade in to slash migrant 'taxi-boat'
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• Akon's futuristic $6bn city project in Senegal abandoned, BBC told
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• Kyiv hit by barrage of drone strikes as Putin rejects Trump's truce bid
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• Elephant kills British and New Zealand tourists in Zambia
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• Russia becomes first state to recognise Afghanistan's Taliban government
  The foreign minister in Kabul called Moscow’s decision “courageous”.
• Hamas says it is consulting other Palestinian groups on Gaza ceasefire plan
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• Sport agent Jonathan Barnett accused of rape in US lawsuit
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• Roadblocks replace rallies as Serbian protesters demand new elections
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• Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom confirm split
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• Updates on 5 housing proposals in Live Oak, Soquel
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• Soquel mobile home park owners seek 100 apartment redevelopment
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• Adopted Watsonville budget to finish Ramsay Park upgrades
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• Gutting—or fixing?—CEQA
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