The Santa Cruz County Elections Office has validated the signatures on the petition to recall 2 Santa Cruz City Councilmen. The Santa Cruz City Council has 14 days to certify the count, and will be asked to do so at its regular meeting Tuesday, as well as setting an election date. Voters will be asked to separately vote “yes” or “no” if Christopher Krohn and/or Drew Glover should be removed from office.
Recall supporters will need to garner more than 50% of the vote to oust either of the 2 men.
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Salinas police say they still don’t have a motive for the Tuesday stabbing death of a pregnant 26-year-old woman. But they say Mariana Jurado was describing the suspect to officers while she was being treated at the scene. Her husband also followed the suspect and reportedly led officers to 43-year-old Garrett Scheff, who now faces two counts of murder for the killings of mother and child
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Today (Thursday) is World Pancreatic Cancer Day which seeks a cure for a disease with only a 9-percent survival rate after five years. KSCO’s David Coursey is a pancreatic cancer survivor and shares these warning signs, one of which may have saved his life.
“Part of the reason for the low survival rate is that most patients are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer only after cancer has progressed significantly. By that time, patients may survive for only weeks or months.
“Important warning signs include stomach pain, mid-back pain, unexplained weight loss, nausea and loss of appetite, indigestion, changes in stool, and new-onset diabetes. And last, there is jaundice in which my yellow skin and eyes led doctors to diagnose pancreatic cancer when my tumor was still small and had not spread.”
More information at worldpancreaticcancerday.org or pancan.org.
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KION Television reports that the suspect in the stabbing death of a pregnant woman in Salinas has now been charged with a second count of murder.
The suspect, 43-year-old Garrett Scheff, is accused of attacking 26-year-old Mariana Jurado on Tuesday morning as she was leaving for work.
The sister-in-law of Jurado confirmed to the TV station that Mariana was two months pregnant.
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