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Two former leaders of the Mexican American Community Services Agency who allegedly used employees’ retirement savings for school supplies, a salary raise, a YMCA membership, food from local supermarkets, computers, office supplies and other general operating costs are being charged with felony grand theft and could face up to three years in prison, Santa Clara County's District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced Thursday morning.

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is launching the public process to create a new health element for the General Plan, beginning with three Healthy Communities Workshops April 12, 26 and 30, to seek ideas from the public.

A new three-story parking garage in downtown Morgan Hill, along Depot Street, could hold up to 381 parking spaces for future Caltrain and VTA commuters, as well as visitors to area dining and entertainment establishments. 

Sarah's Vineyard was founded in 1978 in the windy funnel of the Hecker Pass, a few miles west of Gilroy on Highway 152. For more than 30 years Sarah’s has specialized in estate-grown Pinot Noir and Chardonnay made in small batches using classic Burgundian winemaking techniques and French oak cooperage.

The next wave of eye-catching public artwork depicting celebrated Gilroy landscapes, culture, wildlife and American pride will color the Garlic Capital one brushstroke at a time at an intersection near you by mid-April or May.

Books. Numbers. Cars. Animals. Gardens. Education. Volunteering.

In conjunction with Arbor Week coming up March 7-14, third, fourth and fifth grade students throughout California are invited to participate in the California Arbor Week Poster Contest.

California's $98.5-billion bullet train project has become "increasingly risky" because of uncertainty about where the money will come from to finish even the first phase, the state auditor warned Tuesday.

Gilroy Unified School District trustees will begin to visit the feasibility of restoring furlough days during Thursday's Board of Education budget study session, but the glimmer of possible good news may be overshadowed by an ominous fiscal rain cloud.

Jazmine Parra and a friend were on their way to San Benito High School cheer practice one day last spring when her mother called and gave her the news – representatives for the Miss California Teen USA pageant wanted to meet her in Los Angeles to possibly get into the 2012 competition.