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A name change prank on Santa Cruz’s biggest Facebook group by one of its own administrators quickly went awry, fueling ...

Advanced DNA testing and forensic genetic genealogy leads to the ID of a suspect in the 1976 murder of 25-year-old Karen Percifield in Aptos, Calif.

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Adam Bergeron is no stranger to Santa Cruz. A few months ago, he returned to his old post at the helm of The Crepe Place. The ...

Tammi Brown — an award-winning jazz, gospel and R&B singer who was a fixture of Santa Cruz’s local music scene and performed ...

A notorious California killer has been named as a suspect in the 1976 murder of a woman in Aptos, the small seaside town bordering Santa Cruz. In May 1976, Karen Percifield, 25, was in California ...