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Burke sentenced to 56 years to life in 2022 downtown Santa Cruz parking garage stabbing
Following a guilty verdict in late March, 65-year-old John Frederick Burke was sentenced to 56 years to life in prison for first-degree murder with enhancements for prior convictions on Tuesday morning.
Santa Cruz serial killer Ed Kemper denied parole again
Serial killer Edmund Kemper was denied parole at a hearing Tuesday at California Medical Facility state prison at Vacaville.
Highway 1 commuters, meet the ‘Whale Bridge’
The new, still-under-construction pedestrian bridge over Highway 1 was decorated with metal whales in June, creating an artistic element to one of the county’s biggest highway construction projects.
The cult of all-or-nothing activism made UCSC campus arrests inevitable
Violence and arrests at the UC Santa Cruz Gaza protest was inevitable, writes Colm Fitzgerald, a 2023 graduate who served as chair of the Undergraduate Student Assembly from 2021-2022.
She knits, she sails and she studies whales: UCSC graduate student Lauren Fritz wants to know how tourism affects humpback whales
UC Santa Cruz graduate student Lauren Fritz is worried about humans’ impact on humpback whales.
Lily Belli on Food: Beer Run Santa Cruz, Izakaya West End, and a home garden update
Get the latest food news in Lookout’s food and drink correspondent, Lily Belli’s weekly newsletter.
