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Event returns for 24th year.

Despite a few spells of blasting rain, Community Mural Day unfolded in Watsonville Saturday with more than 100 people showing up to help brighten up Hazelwood Park and blanket over graffiti with fresh colorful murals.

Traffic on southbound Highway 1 was snarled for several hours Tuesday morning after a dump truck overturned at the Buena Vista exit and struck a light pole.

The Niners’ offensive line ranked 11th in run blocking this season, according to Football Outsiders. They were the worst run blocking unit in the NFL — that is not an embellishment — in 2016 and ‘15. The year they went to the Super Bowl? They were ranked first.

A San Jose man is in custody after he shot a man in front of a Soquel business and then tried to outrun police in his vehicle, police said.

Fresh from a May 13 victory that made them state champions, Aptos High School’s robotics team now advances to the international competition in Long Beach, facing off against 60 teams from as far away as Russia.

Years ago, a customer of the 7-Eleven store at 261 East Lake Ave. brought a turkey dinner to employees who were working on Thanksgiving. In the 10 years since that day, the lottery-style giveaway has become a Thanksgiving tradition.

Music filled the street as people strolled, rolled and skated their way around the fifth annual Pleasure Point Street Fair Saturday.

Since the beginning of the year, police in unincorporated Santa Cruz County have arrested just six people for operating a motor vehicle while stoned, California Highway Patrol Officer Trista Drake said.