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OXNARD – Excitement over an ice cream truck may have sent a 6-year-old Oxnard boy rushing to cross the street Thursday and directly into an SUV. The child is in critical condition at Cedars Sinai Medical Center after being struck by the vehicle Thursday. The accident happened around 3 p.m. at the intersection of Kamala [...]
CARPINTERIA – Al Clark has long had a lot on his mind regarding offshore and onshore oil and gas production, the decades-old permits governing their existence and public safety. It’s been intense lately for Clark who’s the Vice Mayor and the Carpinteria City Council. Venoco Oil’s controversial Paredon project goes to voters through an initiative in [...]
SANTA MARIA – Friends and family are gathering in Santa Maria to celebrate the life of Christie Stanley. Santa Barbara County’s first female district attorney died of lung cancer April 25. She was 61. The memorial service is at the Pacific Christian Center, 10:30 a.m., 3435 Santa Maria Way in Santa Maria. In lieu of [...]
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Sam Blakeslee, the Central Coast’s Republican assemblyman for the past six years, will run for the state Senate seat vacated by the ascendancy of Abel Maldonado to the lieutenant governorship. In a conversation with The Tribune’s editorial board on Thursday, Blakeslee said he will make the official announcement this morning in [...]
SIMI VALLEY – Simi Valley police plan to recommend that vehicular manslaughter charges be filed against a teen driver who ran a red light while distracted, crashed her sport utility vehicle into a car and killed two people on their way to Moorpark College, the lead investigator said this week. The 17-year-old Simi Valley girl was [...]
ARROYO GRANDE – Arroyo Grande City leaders are working to fill the city council vacancy created by the resignation this week of embattled councilman Ed Arnold. City Manager Steve Adams says they’re working toward following what’s set forth in state law, which allows the city to appoint a replacement. Arnold resigned April 27 at Tuesday [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – “Here one Latin cross in the desert evokes far more than religion. It evokes thousands of small crosses in foreign fields marking the graves of Americans who fell in battles—battles whose tragedies are compounded if the fallen are forgotten.” -Justice Kennedy A long-term battle over a Mojave war memorial has finally come [...]
VENTURA – Once again, Ventura County scored an F. The county’s failing grade appeared on the American Lung Association’s State of the Air 2010 report card, which was released Wednesday. In fact, most of the state did badly, with 91 percent of Californians living in counties with failing air quality standards. Many California cities and [...]
SAN FRANCISCO – As California once again confronts a multibillion dollar budget deficit, concern has grown considerably among the state’s residents about the consequences of spending cuts on kindergarten through 12th grade education, according to an annual survey released today by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) with funding from The William and Flora [...]