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While some people have a love affair with coffee, Morgan Hill resident Nick Langone and Gilroy High School alumna Brianna Holladay have a love story that blossomed over cups of coffee – thousands of them.

A proposed “Quality of Life” sales tax or bond measure originally floated by Mayor Don Gage as a mechanism to fund city capital improvement projects has taken a turn to include funding for additional public safety positions and upgrades to emergency communications equipment.

Twenty-one months after the arrest of the man who allegedly kidnapped and killed 15-year-old Sierra LaMar of north Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County’s top prosecutor brought the case to the Criminal Grand Jury which “finally” - in the words of the victim’s cousin - indicted the suspect for his alleged involvement in the crime Tuesday.

Detectives with the Gilroy Police Department arrested 33-year-old Jerome Moore, of Gilroy, on Feb. 12 and charged him with the murder of another Gilroy man in what began as a physical confrontation near Las Animas Park and became the city's first homicide of 2014.

One word perfectly summarizes the relationship between Gavilan College softball pitcher Paige Miguel and Rams coach Nikki Dequin: love.

Two City of Gilroy Fire Department engines responded to a fire that was started by a burning candle at approximately 1:45 p.m. Wednesday. The fire occurred inside a homeless encampment along the west side of the railroad tracks behind the Gilroy Dispatch newsroom office, located at 6400 Monterey Road.

Alisal was looking to go 10-0 for the first time since 2005. Gilroy, with its own agenda, put an end to that.

Tucker came from the San Martin shelter eight years ago. They called to let us know they had a beautiful yellow Labrador who needed to be adopted. We had just lost our three-legged dalmatian, Carly the tripod, and had room for one more. Tucker was a bit of a nervous, fearful dog in the beginning. However with lots of love and attention, he settled in and was very content with his new housemates … Archie, Maisy and our three cats.

The Gavilan softball team's bats were ablaze during Tuesday's doubleheader with West Hills College.