Calabasas Ca

They're hoping wet weather doesn't turn "MASH" into mush today in Calabasas. But rain or shine, a tribute to the 25th anniversary of the popular television series' finale will be staged at the show's Malibu Creek State Park filming location, organizers promise. The former "MASH" set is about two miles into the park, next to a dirt road that turns muddy when it rains. Several stars from the series, Mike Farrell, Loretta Swit and William Christopher, have indicated they plan to attend.

An investigation sparked by a suspicious death at an upscale senior living facility in Calabasas has expanded to include the alleged abuse of three more elderly residents, including a 78-year-old woman who was allegedly body-slammed into her bed, according to court records and interviews. Keith Stubbs said he was told by authorities that a caregiver at Silverado Senior Living rousted his sleeping mother out of bed by "jumping on her chest." When she tried to defend herself, "he picked her up W.

Nestled amid rolling hills on the western edge of the San Fernando Valley, Calabasas has become an unlikely trailblazer in the debate over secondhand smoke -- and even some nonsmokers wonder whether their upscale suburb has gone too far. The city of 30,000 this week adopted an ordinance -- considered by experts to be one of the toughest in the nation -- strictly regulating smoking in public places. The rule bans smoking in outdoor spaces when other people are in the area.

As a pioneering public smoking ban went into effect Friday in Calabasas, enforcement came from a higher authority: Mother Nature. A pouring rainstorm snuffed out renegade smokers' cigarettes and sent them scurrying for cover as security guards began issuing warnings at the town's main shopping center. "You could get a $500 citation," one of them advised Danielle Wakely of Westwood as she sat at an outside table at the Calabasas Commons mall and puffed on a Marlboro.

Just name it, and this Calabasas house probably has it. The home, built in 1987, underwent a major remodel in 2005 and gained a variety of bells and whistles. An indoor basketball court, wine-tasting/catering kitchen and three-story atrium with a retractable roof are just a few of these added features. Among others are an art gallery, an in-home gym, a home theater and a 12-car subterranean garage, which added an extra 3,000 square feet to the original 9,000-square-foot house plan.

First Bank of Beverly Hills, a Calabasas institution under federal orders to raise more funds, was rescued Tuesday by a Chicago financial firm that pledged to provide new capital and convert the bank into a conventional small-business operation.

A Calabasas woman who volunteered to write the sample ballot argument against a controversial 152-acre resort and conference center planned next to sensitive Santa Monica Mountains parkland has been sued by the project's developer. A Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit accuses homemaker Mary Hubbard of making false and misleading statements about the project, which developer Brian Boudreau hopes to build in a valley between Malibu and Calabasas.

A Calabasas developer has lost his bid to block a ballot argument that criticizes a resort and spa he hopes to build in the Santa Monica Mountains. Brian Boudreau sued homeowner Mary Hubbard, accusing her of making "false and misleading" statements about his proposed 152-acre project near Malibu Canyon in a ballot argument prepared for a Nov. 8 "advisory" election for Calabasas voters.

On Nov. 8, Calabasas residents get their first chance to weigh in on one of the largest construction projects proposed in the 14-year history of the city. Its 23,000 residents, who live in tidy neighborhoods surrounded by verdant hillsides on both sides of the Ventura Freeway in the western San Fernando Valley, have two measures to decide. One is an advisory vote. The other would protect the city's current open space for 25 years.

An upscale bedroom community off the 101 Freeway in west Los Angeles County, Calabasas offers scenic vistas, rolling hills and an abundance of open space. Incorporated in 1991, this picturesque city of 22,000 lies in the San Fernando Valley but beyond its bustle, touched by the serenity of the Santa Monica Mountains. Background The name "Calabasas," which means gourd, pumpkin or squash, derives from either the Chumash word calahoosa or the Spanish calabaza, depending on which historian you ask.