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Two South County residents participated in the Boston Marathon today, where two massive explosions detonated at the finish line this afternoon.

DEAR ABBY: My daughter died in a car accident two years ago. She and her boyfriend, "Reed," had a 4-month-old daughter, "Angela." Since then, Reed has been very understanding and liberal with visitations. However, it didn't take him long to find another girlfriend, who has a 4-year-old daughter I'll call Madison.

    DEAR ABBY: My daughter was married eight months ago. During the planning of the wedding, her fiance was very involved in every aspect of decision-making. Soon after the vows were exchanged, her new husband became cold and distant toward her. He would constantly tell her she made him miserable, and he allowed his mother to ridicule and berate her over things from her hair color to her cooking.

The Central Coast Barnstormers semi-pro football team won its third straight game Saturday with a 48-0 victory over the Golden State Giants at the Galileo Academy of Science and Technology in San Francisco.

Tierra Bella, Spanish for “beautiful land,” is the aptly named cycling tour hosted annually by the Almaden Cycle Touring Club of San Jose. Now in its 36th year, Tierra Bella had an estimated 2,000 riders cover about 144,000 miles through Gilroy and Morgan Hill on Saturday.

    DEAR ABBY: I'm a 14-year-old girl. I don't understand why adults tell me to be an independent thinker, to embrace myself, and then put me down for not conforming. Why is it outrageous to come to your own conclusions, speculate, challenge accepted ideas or find your own faith? It would be easier to quietly nod an empty head and smile to please our parents and the adults who influence kids, so they can enjoy superficial satisfaction for how "well" they have raised us.

A much smaller crowd than organizers had hoped for attended the Gilroy Community Forum at the MACSA Youth Gym on IOOF Avenue Friday night. The forum was organized as a direct response to the gang-related shooting of Jesse Silos last week.

An explosive national news story involving the sexual battery and subsequent suicide of 15-year-old Audrie Pott, a Saratoga High School sophomore, touched down at Christopher High School Thursday morning when a 16-year-old juvenile was arrested on campus in connection with the alleged crime.

In the midst of an ongoing undercover operation to nab grownups trying to purchase alcohol for minors, Morgan Hill Police have arrested five adult suspects so far as a result of the “shoulder tap” initiative.