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The Chip Kelly era at Oregon has featured conference championships, multiple 10-win seasons, cutting-edge pyrotechnic offenses _ even space-age uniforms that have made the Ducks the talk of college football. The only thing missing was a victory in a Bowl Championship Series game. And though Kelly and his players downplayed that fact throughout the week leading up to the 98th Rose Bowl, the jubilant scene on the field after a 45-38 victory over Wisconsin on Monday said otherwise.

While Gilroy residents celebrated the holiday weekend popping Champagne and toasting to their New Year's resolutions, local law enforcement officers chased down suspects and responded to a bevy of crimes they hope will be aberrations as 2012 rolls forward.

Locals who grabbed a latte at Starbucks or did some post-holiday bargain hunting at Kohl's this weekend may have noticed the forthcoming closure of a heavily trafficked shortcut into the Gilroy Crossing shopping center, located along Highway 152 just east of U.S. Highway 101.

When Elizabeth Aguilar, 19, saw her baby girl for the first time after giving birth at 12:13 a.m. on New Year's Day, her initial reaction was, "Oh my gosh. She is purple."

The owners of the Morgan Hill Cigar Company didn't expect to spend New Years Day making statements and submitting photographs to the police in order to stop what they alleged was a plunder of their business and destruction of city property. But that's what they did.

The Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs lies out of sight amid steep, earthy embankments and lush wilderness hillsides, but plans are afoot for this ghostly shell of an aging 18th century jewel tucked away off Roop Road in the mountainous sanctuary of Henry W. Coe State Park, roughly 17 miles southeast of downtown Morgan Hill.

Morgan Hill resident Gary Borgnino was out for a walk with his dog Saturday when he noticed something laying on the side of the road at the base of El Toro mountain: a deer carcass.