Demonstration at UC Santa Cruz ends peacefully

Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest.

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Crews rush to contain CA wildfire ahead of winds

Firefighters are scrambling to contain a wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains ahead of a weather system that's expected to bring high winds.

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Mudslide concern leads to Santa Cruz evacuations

Officials are asking residents to leave their homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where summer wildfires have made conditions ripe for mudslides.

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Mudslide menace eases in Calif. as storm weakens

A powerful fall storm packing strong winds and rain eased Wednesday without causing the widespread mudslides and debris flows that California residents had feared.

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Suspects who sparked fire may be linked to cartels

Investigators said Tuesday they believe marijuana growers with possible ties to Mexican drug cartels caused an 88,650-acre wildfire in northern Santa Barbara County, and there are many more pot farms hidden in remote areas around the nation.

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Paloma dissipating after ravaging central Cuba

Thousands of Cubans returned to homes demolished by Hurricane Paloma even as the once-powerful storm dissipated off the coast on Monday.

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Key provisions of Bolivia autonomy vote

Here are some of the key provisions of an autonomy proposal being voted on Sunday by the residents of Bolivia's Santa Cruz state.

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UC Santa Cruz slated to get archives of Grateful Dead

Dancing bears, meet the Banana Slugs. The surviving members of the Grateful Dead are turning over the rock band's archives to the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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Labradoodle Awakens Owner During Fire

A savvy Labradoodle has one lucky owner. Firefighters said Bella, a mix of poodle and Labrador retriever, saved the life of her owner Matt Carcerano on Monday, waking him before his Santa Cruz cottage went up in flames.

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'Surf City' Rivalry Goes to Lawyers

Huntington Beach is taking its rivalry with Santa Cruz over the title of "Surf City, USA" out of the ocean and into the hands of lawyers, trademarking the name and chasing down businesses that infringe on it.

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Planet-hunters have discovered two "super-Earths" orbiting two nearby Sun-like stars. These rocky planets are larger than the Earth but much smaller than ice giants such as Uranus and Neptune.

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he partial remains of an ancient toothed whale species that roamed the ocean 5 million years ago have been discovered on a California beach.

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In simultaneous, unrelated rampages of unspeakable savagery, they murdered 21 people. Yet they never met - at least not until they were in prison, awaiting trial for their killing sprees

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The Bolivian government is implementing new land reform policy purported to help the poor, under which the government can seize and redistribute land to indigenous farmers. It's a proposal that has left many landowners unhappy.

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Bolivia's President Evo Morales says three foreigners have been killed after he ordered police to thwart a planned assassination attempt against him. Security forces killed three alleged international mercenaries in the city of Santa Cruz, Mr Morales said.

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Based on an analysis of earlier studies of 29 species — mostly fish, but also a few animals and plants like bighorn sheep and ginseng — researchers from several Canadian and American universities found that rates of evolutionary change were three times higher in species subje …

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Here is the promised video of a group of people vowing to defend Santa Cruz last night. Notice the salutes and armbands that are strangely reminiscent of another era.

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Latin American leaders are to gather in Chile today in an attempt to end a political crisis in Bolivia that has seen more than a dozen people killed.

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Deadly clashes in Bolivia Thursday stoked fears of further widespread unrest and possibly even civil war, amid a furor over the expulsion of the US ambassador to the country.

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The attacks, which the university described as "antiscience violence," occurred nearly simultaneously before dawn on Saturday, just days after the police in Santa Cruz discovered pamphlets in a coffee shop warning of attacks against "animal abusers everywhere." The pamphl …

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The FBI is investigating two firebombings targeting scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as the latest in a rash of attacks against biomedical researchers who experiment on animals, authorities said.

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Bolivia's Santa Cruz department is about to push the country towards the brink of a crisis when it holds a referendum on further autonomy from the central government.

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A piece on the growing commercialization of the once clandestine pot-smoking holiday known as "420."

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Declassified documents and interviews on the ground in Bolivia prove that the Bush Administration is using US taxpayers' money to undermine the Morales government and coopt the country's dynamic social movements--just as it has tried to do recently in Venezuela and traditionally  …

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Security forces are on alert in Bolivia, ahead of rallies planned in four of the country's richest regions. The four provinces are set to declare autonomy at the demonstrations, after the wealthiest province, Santa Cruz, passed a key tax reform measure.

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The Bolivian government Monday confirmed that two low-intensity "dynamite attacks" were perpetrated early on Monday against the Venezuelan Consulate and a building used by Cuban doctors in the eastern town of Santa Cruz.

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A surfer was attacked off Marina State Beach in Monterey Bay, in Central California on Tuesday. An avid surfer, the victim is reported to be in fair condition after going into surgery last night.

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LA PAZ, Jul 10 (IPS) - Indigenous people are marching for their right to autonomy, heading from the lowland city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in central Bolivia to the constitutional and judicial capital, Sucre, where the country's Constituent Assembly is meeting.

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As the problems of genetic contamination of heirloom crops has threatened the livelihoods and purity of Organic farmers harvests, several counties in California and others around the nation have banned the planting of GMO crops.

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56,000 People, most of whom are STRICT organic eaters, and whole foods with it's "organic high fructose corn syrup" thinks it has a chance? ...please.

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UC Santa Cruz anti-war activists are claiming victory, saying their repeated efforts to keep military recruiters off campus have paid off. Three recruitment offices announced this week they were backing out of a campus job fair set for Tuesday.

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Since 1949, the Skyview Drive-In has played host to feature films and necking teenagers. Now, a hospital is looking to buy the land, which also hosts a weekend flea market, to expand its offices.

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SAN DIEGO ---- In what could be the prelude to a lawsuit, San Diego and four other counties filed a claim Tuesday charging that the federal Medicare system had illegally withheld billions of dollars from doctors and counties nationwide, including $155 million from San Diego Count …

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A gay student prevented from donating blood because of his sexual history has stirred debate among Santa Cruz school officials over whether to continue hosting campus blood drives.

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