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GILROY—A woman was knocked off her horse while riding along the Coyote Ridge Trail east of Gilroy and was rescued by authorities Sunday afternoon. The woman was nearly 2 miles from the Roop Road entrance to Coyote Lake-Harvey Bear Ranch County Park when a distress call came in at 1:05 p.m.

GILROY—A Christopher High School sophomore was killed in a Gilroy car wreck on Saturday when the vehicle she was in with two schoolmates veered off Miller Avenue and smashed into a tree.

Glory Baseball will host its second round of spring workouts to fill roster spots for its 18U summer/fall travel team at 9 a.m. May 24 at Gilroy High School. 

GILROY— Sleuths at the Santa Clara County Agricultural Commissioner’s office are investigating the mysterious deaths of at least 1,000 European brown snails in a Gilroy business park.

GILROY—Firefighters battled a two-alarm blaze at Pacific Mobile Estates on 10th Street Tuesday morning when a mobile home fire destroyed a neighboring unit and damaged three others.

GILROY—In Gilroy aviation artist Joe Kline’s latest work, at the end of the muzzle of the M60-7.62mm machine gun in the hovering Huey helicopter, there’s a just visible soldier manning the weapon to cover GIs in a landing zone in Vietnam.

Glory Baseball will hold spring workouts to fill roster spots for its 18U summer/fall travel team at 9 a.m. May 3 at Gilroy High School.

GILROY—Gilroy gymnast Marcela Mantilla hasn't competed since 2013, but she hasn't been taking it easy either.

GILROY—Christine Newberg has helped deliver hundreds of babies at Gilroy’s Saint Louise Regional Hospital and believes the Daughters of Charity Health System’s decision to close that obstetric unit puts lives at risk and is “incredibly irresponsible.”

SAN MARTIN—Once a week, people on supervised probation or state parole can receive a free services designed to help get their lives back on track, thanks to a new pilot program that opened this week in San Martin.