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WASHINGTON, D.C. – From a wreath-laying ceremony at Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetery to a moment of silence at Major League Baseball games across the country, America on Monday stops and remembers the sacrifices of those who fell in military service to the country. Vice President Joe Biden will take the place of President Obama for [...]
GOLETA – UC Santa Barbara professor David Valentine says he first learned of ‘top kill’ last week through the media. Valentine, an expert in marine sediment and geochemistry, said he didn’t know what to expect. His team is at the site sending back samples to study. Some of his work has been submitted to experts [...]
SANTA BARBARA – Nobody wants to see their backyard barbeque go up in flames. The Santa Barbara County Fire Department reminds citizens that simple safety measures can be taken to avoid charring dinner and setting anything on fire. Santa Barbara County Fire Department offers the following tips: * Use propane and charcoal grills in outside [...]
SACRAMENTO – As he stares into the abyss of a $19.1 billion state budget shortfall, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is urging Californians to consider an earth-shifting governmental move. To help social services such as child welfare and elder care avoid massive cuts, he wants to transfer more responsibility for those programs from the state to [...]
REDWOOD CITY – Redwood City about 25 miles south of San Francisco, was a bustling shipping and lumber town in the mid-19th century, until it fell off the radar in the ’70s — owing, in part, to major retail development in nearby Palo Alto — and was tagged with the unfortunate nickname Deadwood City. But over [...]
Counting calories is a tedious pain sometimes, but it’s better for me than a scripted menu plan. Part of my job means tasting foods (rough, I know), and calorie-counting gives me the flexibility in my diet to allow for that. It also lets me follow my own whims for what I want to cook and [...]
The first two books, Daisy Chain and A Slow Burn, dealt with the kidnapping and murder of a young girl, and the effect on the people who loved her, especially her best friend, Jed, and her mother, Emory. The third book in the trilogy, Life in Defiance (read an excerpt), comes out today. It finally [...]
LOS ANGELES – The “unschooling” movement of the 1970s featured open classrooms, in which children studied what they were most interested in, when they felt ready. That was followed by today’s back-to-basics, early-start model, in which students complete math worksheets in kindergarten and are supposed to take algebra by eighth grade at the latest. Under [...]
OXNARD – Oxnard Public Works Director Ken Ortega failed to declare numerous gifts from companies doing business with the city over the past four years, The Star has learned. Ortega conceded in an interview last week that he received tickets to Lakers and Dodgers games, as well as free games of golf and meals, but [...]