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Wood's Humane Society Holiday Open House was held Saturday. The free event included pet portraits with Santa, a $20 microchip clinic, $58 holiday homecoming adopt-a-thon and kids holiday workshop.

Woods Humane Society Holiday Open House

The Woods Humane Society Holiday Open House took place Saturday, Dec. 7.

Sports

Cal Poly men's basketball versus Santa Clara University at Mott Gym, Saturday, December 7, 2013. Cal Poly's Maliik Love (3) goes for a rebound duinrg 1st half play over Denzel Johns (20) and Jerry Brown (0). Photo by Laura Dickinson 12-07-13

Men's basketball: Cal Poly vs. Santa Clara

Business

In this photo dated Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013, Fabien Teitgen, head of the wine making holds a bottle of red wine of Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte in the wine cellars of Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte in Martillac, near Bordeaux,bsouthwestern France. Counterfeiting has dogged wine as long as it has been produced, but it is getting more sophisticated and more ambitious, particularly as bottle prices rise due to huge demand in new markets, mainly in Asia.

As wine fakers get sharper, industry fights back

An FBI agent recently showed Arnaud de Laforcade a file with several labels supposedly from 1947 bottles of Chateau Cheval Blanc, one of France's finest wines. To the Saint-Emilion vineyard's CFO, they were clearly fakes — too new looking, ...

Opinion

Check the facts

In response to David Burton’s Viewpoint (Nov. 21): 3 hours ago

Entertainment

Jayde Forzetting as Grace Jackson and other cast members during a “Pool ’63” rehearsal.

Cuesta production dives into the deep end of racial issues

Set in the summer of 1963 in Birmingham, Ala., “Pool ’63” examines how the lives of two 9-year-old girls — one black, one white — are shaped by the civil rights movement.

Living

December and January are the months to prune deciduous fruit trees. Think about air circulation as you snip branches.

Enjoying the crisp days in December gardens

Romantic snow scenes dominate our television screens now, and while the Central Coast may not bring up visions of walking through the woods on a snowy night, we do have a nip of frost in the air. The aroma of fallen leaves and sea salt invokes our...

State

FILE - This Jan. 21, 2013 file photo shows singers, from left, Judith Hill, Merry Clayton and Darlene Love from the film "20 Feet from Stardom" at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival at the Fender Music Lodge in Park City, Utah. Hill, Clayton, Love and Lisa Fischer are set to perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the 100th Rose Bowl game on Jan. 1 in Pasadena.

Subjects of '20 Feet' to sing anthem at Rose Bowl

On New Year's Day, they'll finally travel that last 20 feet. 11 minutes ago

Nation/World

FILE - This file image released by NBC shows, from left, Tracy Spiridakos as Charlie Matheson, Billy Burke as Miles Matheson, Daniella Alonso as Nora, and Paras Patel as Albert, in a scene from "Revolution." Violent dramas on the broadcast networks carry milder parental cautions than cable shows but can equal them in graphic gore, a failure of the TV ratings system, according to a Parents Television Council study released Monday, Dec. 9, 2013.

Study: Erratic TV violence ratings fail parents

Violent dramas on the broadcast networks carry milder parental cautions than cable shows like "The Walking Dead" but can equal them in graphic gore, a failure of the TV ratings system, a new study found. 11 minutes ago

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