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The vision is quite clear for the American Cancer Society, which wants to double its contributions in 2018 to better support cancer research and services to those stricken with the life-altering disease. To do so, the nonprofit organization has been instituting some changes to reduce...

Crothall Healthcare, the laundry and linen division of The Compass Group, has opened a hospital laundry and linen service center in Gilroy and is looking for more employees to wash up to 20 million pounds of linens a year. Crothall provides linen services for Kaiser...

Police on horseback arrest suspected meth dealer Gilroy police officers on horseback arrested a man with about three ounces of methamphetamine on him in the city’s downtown May 4, according to authorities. The police department’s Mounted Unit was conducting a “quality of life” enforcement detail, in...

Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee acknowledged he didn’t follow the state law or his own department’s policy when he left his service handgun in his personal truck just before the vehicle was stolen in Modesto April 27. Shortly after the theft, the city’s top law...

Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee, a 30-year-plus law enforcement veteran, found himself the victim of a crime when someone stole his personal vehicle April 27, according to police. The chief’s service firearm and badge, among other personal items, were inside the vehicle when it disappeared,...

The Gilroy Garlic Festival has selected its poster, and will crown a queen this weekend. The annual Gilroy Garlic Festival Art Poster Contest receives submissions every year from across the country, but this year’s first-prize winner is a hometown artist, Chris Dufur. Dufur will receive a...

Less than a month after some of her opponents said she should quit over decades-old ethical allegations, five-term incumbent Sheriff Laurie Smith has come out swinging. In a no-holds-barred interview with editors of the Gilroy Dispatch and Morgan Hill Times, Smith claimed San Jose media...

Why did you decide to run for sheriff? I want to restore the integrity, fairness, transparency, community trust and balance to the elected position of sheriff. This is critically important to our community because the culture of the sheriff's office starts at the top. The...

There's obviously a lot of growth in South County. Do you see any need for changes in manpower strategies for handling this increase? We always look at cost for service. And if we need additional staffing for calls for service, we base our staffing on...

Federal and regional authorities last week arrested a suspect who has been on the run since he killed a victim in Gilroy in November 2017, according to police. On April 19, agents from the the Bay Area OCS-Fugitive Apprehension Team and U.S. Marshals Service were...