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Q: Our 14-year-old daughter developed a rash on her hand and arm. We took her to two different dermatologists before we finally got a diagnosis. She has contagious ecthyma, something I never heard of before. Her dermatologist asked if we have any sheep or goats. We have three new pet goats. He told us that this is a contagious skin disease she caught from those goats. But we checked, and none of the "kids" have any skin condition. Is this a common problem you see very often? Where does it come from? Our daughter is horrified what her friends will think so she wears long sleeves everyday to school.

Spice up your art portfolio and enter the 2019 Gilroy Garlic Festival Art Poster Contest. Artists across the country are being invited to submit their original artwork for the chance to win cash prizes in the 2019 contest. The winning entry will be reproduced as a...

“Frosty” Allmond, charged in the Jan. 6 stabbing of Pinocchio’s pizza restaurant owner Sal Oliveri, has a long history of homelessness, drug abuse—and knife attacks, according to authorities in several states. “Frosty’s” full name is Marcus Anthony Allmond. In ancient Rome, Marcus Antonius, perhaps better...

Last week we went on vacation. Yes, I know this isn’t earth-shattering news. But everywhere we went, people asked us where we were from. And when we answered “Gilroy,” we always got the same reaction:

For Christmas, I received from my neighbor LuAnn Hood a T-shirt

Gilroy Police arrested an 18-year-old local man last week on suspicion of sexually assaulting at least three people, and investigators think even more have been victimized by the same suspect. Police received the first report of a possible sexual assault committed by Gianni Filice, a...

Second Harvest of Silicon Valley and four other Bay Area food banks have a critical shortage of volunteers and are reaching out to the public for assistance.  Collectively, Bay Area food banks feed about one million people each month.  Second Harvest, Alameda County Community Food Bank...

Five South Valley men, including two from Gilroy and two from San Martin, were charged with running a $235,948 insurance scam where they faked 18 car accidents and billed insurance companies for work that was never done. Brothers Angel Topete, 36, and Joshua Topete, 34,...

Next time you drive through the eucalyptus forest on Highway 101