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A 59 year-old man has been arrested in connection with a homicide that took place on the 1700 block of Great Island Street in Salinas. Richard Ruiz is accused of killing his girlfriend. He was arrested after he led law enforcement officers on a high speed chase that ended this morning in the Soledad area.
A high speed chase, that began just after 9 a-m this morning on eastbound Highway 68, ended on southbound Highway 101 near Camphora-Gloria Road before 9:40 a.m.
Local, county, and state officials are trying to figure out what to do with the people living in a homeless encampment that’s adjacent to Highway 1....where the road is slated to be widened soon. That’s at the intersection of Highways 1 and 9.....and the road-widening is scheduled to start in April. The Federal and State funding package (being used to pay for the highway widening) is set to expire 6 months after the grant was awarded....which was in December, so officials don’t have much time in which to figure out where to move the encampment, and get the roadwork done.
Officials with the Santa Cruz Cinema 9 have announced the permanent closure of the movie theater....at least under their ownership. The multiplex theater had been closed on a temporary basis since October, when Regal’s corporate parent Cineworld announced it was suspending operation at all of its 536 theaters across the country. The announcement included that employees that want to will be reassigned to other Regal Theaters. The Cinema 9 opened back in 1995, as a way to bring people back to downtown Santa Cruz after the 1989 Loma Prieta Quake....and the movie theater was purchased by the Regal chain in 2004.
07:29 a.m. UPDATE - The majority of those customers have had their power restored.
Original Story - 6:53 a.m. - P.G. & E. reports that 868 of their customers are without power in the Felton area right now. the outage spans the area just east of Highway 9, west to Empire Grade....and from just north of Shingle Mill Creek to south of Old Big Trees and Glengarry Roads.
The outage began at 6:16 this morning, and although P. G. & E. crews are still working to determine the cause of the outage, they hope to have all power restored to the area by 12:45 this afternoon.