Father And Son

The Ventura County Grand Jury has found that the visitors' area at the Honor Farm Minimum Detention Facility is unsatisfactory, offering the opportunity for visitors to pass weapons or contraband to inmates. The visiting area at the Ojai facility is for high-risk inmates and is located in a former dining area. Visitors are separated from inmates by a removable wood partition placed down the center of a former dining table.

Authorities Saturday identified the father and son who were struck and killed while trying to cross Pacific Coast Highway the day before as Nicolas Deras, 39, of Los Angeles, and Nicolas Deras Jr., 8. The pair were attempting to cross PCH from Warner Avenue about 12:30 p.m. Friday when they were struck by a utility vehicle traveling south on the highway, investigators said. The two were outside the crosswalk and were walking against a red light when they were hit, according to CHP officers.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a private investigator who worked for a father and son killed as they sat in their car at a Culver City intersection. The warrant, issued this week in Los Angeles by U.S. Magistrate George King, charges Robert Michael Allen, 31, with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, said FBI spokesman John Hoos. Allen, also known as Robert Michael Suggs, is a suspect in the July 11 killings of Roland Jon Emr, 45, and his son, Roger Jon Emr, 20.

Guillaume Depardieu, 37, an actor who was the son of the French movie star Gerard Depardieu, died Monday in a hospital in the western suburbs of Paris of complications linked to a sudden case of pneumonia. At the Cesar awards -- France's equivalent of the Academy Awards -- Guillaume Depardieu won the prize in 1996 for most promising young actor for his role in the black comedy "Les Apprentis." He began his movie career playing his father's character as a young man in a 1991 film.

Charlton Heston and Peter Strauss would be ideal casting for any film called "Proud Men." But the surprise is that tonight's ABC movie (Channels 7, 3, 10 and 42 at 9) is a sterling piece of work, despite that awful title. "Proud Men" reminds us why Heston and Strauss became stars in the first place. It is also an affecting examination of the gulf between father and son and an indirect plea for post-Vietnam reconciliation.

Pedro González-Rubio's shimmeringly beautiful "Alamar" tells of a young Mexican father, Jorge Machado, taking his 5-year-old son Natan on a two-week vacation at Banco Chinchorro, a coral reef in the Mexican Caribbean, so the boy can experience living close to nature before he returns to Rome, where he lives with his Italian mother, Roberta Palombini. González-Rubio is ambiguous in regard to the line between documentary and fiction, but he creates the feeling that, in essence, the parents and their son are playing themselves.

They were at the apex of Conejo Valley society--the former U.S. ambassador and his son, the president of the family-owned luxury automobile business. Robert D. Nesen and his son Gary own homes in Ventura County's most exclusive neighborhoods, the enclaves of Hidden Valley and North Ranch. Active in the growing cultural life of eastern Ventura County, they share a vacation getaway in Lake Arrowhead, and once ran cattle across a remote sweep of Oregon wilderness.

Father's Day took on a new meaning for Doug Vulich this year. It was the day he found his father. Doug's father had disappeared 17 years ago after he divorced Doug's mother when the boy was just 2. Vulich's mother, Lana Daniels, had told her son for years that Steve Vulich dropped from sight because she had planned to remarry and have her new husband adopt her son. "He bowed out of the picture for his son's sake," said Daniels, a Simi Valley...

An off-duty Westminster police sergeant was stabbed outside his house early Wednesday after two men and two boys followed his son home, broke a car window and fought the father and son, Westminster police said. Sgt. Charles Russell Miller, 50, was in good condition after 2 1/2 hours of surgery to repair the stab wound to his intestines, a spokeswoman for Fountain Valley Regional Hospital said.