Robert Owen

Corinthian Colleges Inc., which specializes in schools for healthcare professionals, on Tuesday named Robert Owen to the new position of chief accounting officer. Owen, 43, who also will be senior vice president, joined Corinthian as vice president and controller in 2004, the Santa Ana-based company said. He was interim chief financial officer after Dennis Beal retired last year. Kenneth Ord became CFO on Thursday.

New Harmony, Ind. THIS place could be just another small Hoosier town basking on the banks of southern Indiana's Wabash River. It has a Victorian main street, cornfield-bordered basketball courts and Kiwanis Club meetings on Thursdays. But turn down a shady street and utopia shimmers in the soft Midwestern light. Austere 19th century frame houses with beautiful gardens reside beside massive Germanic brick buildings resonating with a sense of hope and order.

New Harmony, Ind. THIS place could be just another small Hoosier town basking on the banks of southern Indiana's Wabash River. It has a Victorian main street, cornfield-bordered basketball courts and Kiwanis Club meetings on Thursdays. But turn down a shady street and utopia shimmers in the soft Midwestern light. Austere 19th century frame houses with beautiful gardens reside beside massive Germanic brick buildings resonating with a sense of hope and order.

Corinthian Colleges Inc., which specializes in schools for healthcare professionals, on Tuesday named Robert Owen to the new position of chief accounting officer. Owen, 43, who also will be senior vice president, joined Corinthian as vice president and controller in 2004, the Santa Ana-based company said. He was interim chief financial officer after Dennis Beal retired last year. Kenneth Ord became CFO on Thursday.

The special catch-and-release wild-trout fishing regulations applied to a section of the Lower Owens River north of Bishop this year have led to a surprising discovery. "The lower (water) flows in the Lower Owens have been a benefit to the fish population," says John Deinstadt, chief of the California Department of Fish and Game's wild-trout program. "This is a case where the drought has been better for the fish."

Oxnard Police Chief Robert Owens, who gained a reputation among his colleagues as an innovator and for being "more open-minded than the stereotypical cop," announced Tuesday he will retire June 15. In 25 years as police chief of the city with the highest crime rate in the county, Owens has fought gang violence and street crime with programs that earned him national recognition.

The Lower Owens River Project was implemented in June of 1986 to release water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct and enhance the wetlands leading to long-dry Owens Lake. Edith Turner wonders what went wrong. "Before the project began, it was nothing to catch a limit of nice bass in a couple of hours," she wrote to the Inyo Register. "Now I can go weeks without even a hit."

A search for a new Oxnard police chief will begin in earnest in January, and already a half dozen candidates are knocking at the door. Among the candidates are two from Los Angeles County, two from Ventura County and one from central California, Oxnard Police Chief Robert P. Owens said in a recent interview. He declined to identify them. Oxnard Assistant Police Chief James A. Latimer, 52, also has told his boss that he wants to succeed him.

At least 60 law enforcement officials, two-thirds of them from California, are vying to become Oxnard's next top cop. And Roger Storey, a recruiting consultant advising Oxnard officials on a successor to longtime Police Chief Robert P. Owens, expects a final flurry of inquiries before today's application deadline. "The best applicants wait until the last few days to get their applications in," he said this week.

June marks the last hurrah for two nationally known Southern California police chiefs. For Daryl F. Gates of the Los Angeles Police Department, the tumult and bitterness between the chief and City Hall have taken ugly and shrill turns during his final days in office. For Robert P. Owens of the Oxnard Police Department, the opposite was true as he quietly walked out of his office Friday for the last time, carrying with him accolades from his officers and the community.

The special catch-and-release wild-trout fishing regulations applied to a section of the Lower Owens River north of Bishop this year have led to a surprising discovery. "The lower (water) flows in the Lower Owens have been a benefit to the fish population," says John Deinstadt, chief of the California Department of Fish and Game's wild-trout program. "This is a case where the drought has been better for the fish."

June marks the last hurrah for two nationally known Southern California police chiefs. For Daryl F. Gates of the Los Angeles Police Department, the tumult and bitterness between the chief and City Hall have taken ugly and shrill turns during his final days in office. For Robert P. Owens of the Oxnard Police Department, the opposite was true as he quietly walked out of his office Friday for the last time, carrying with him accolades from his officers and the community.

A 45-year-old assistant chief from Phoenix has been selected as Oxnard's new police chief, city officials said Sunday. Harold Hurtt, a 24-year veteran of the Phoenix police force, will replace retiring Chief Robert P. Owens, said Oxnard City Manager Vernon Hazen. "The department has a great reputation, and I think my biggest challenge will be to see it doesn't deteriorate in its standards," said Hurtt, who will be the city's first black chief. "We're delighted," Hazen said. "He was the No.

At least 60 law enforcement officials, two-thirds of them from California, are vying to become Oxnard's next top cop. And Roger Storey, a recruiting consultant advising Oxnard officials on a successor to longtime Police Chief Robert P. Owens, expects a final flurry of inquiries before today's application deadline. "The best applicants wait until the last few days to get their applications in," he said this week.

A search for a new Oxnard police chief will begin in earnest in January, and already a half dozen candidates are knocking at the door. Among the candidates are two from Los Angeles County, two from Ventura County and one from central California, Oxnard Police Chief Robert P. Owens said in a recent interview. He declined to identify them. Oxnard Assistant Police Chief James A. Latimer, 52, also has told his boss that he wants to succeed him.

Oxnard Police Chief Robert Owens, who gained a reputation among his colleagues as an innovator and for being "more open-minded than the stereotypical cop," announced Tuesday he will retire June 15. In 25 years as police chief of the city with the highest crime rate in the county, Owens has fought gang violence and street crime with programs that earned him national recognition.

A 45-year-old assistant chief from Phoenix has been selected as Oxnard's new police chief, city officials said Sunday. Harold Hurtt, a 24-year veteran of the Phoenix police force, will replace retiring Chief Robert P. Owens, said Oxnard City Manager Vernon Hazen. "The department has a great reputation, and I think my biggest challenge will be to see it doesn't deteriorate in its standards," said Hurtt, who will be the city's first black chief. "We're delighted," Hazen said. "He was the No.

Robert Owen, a self-described courier in the supply network run by former White House aide Oliver L. North to assist the Nicaraguan Contras, testified today before the grand jury investigating the Iran-Contra affair. Owen, who received immunity from prosecution, appeared before the grand jury investigating whether criminal laws were broken by the efforts to aid the Contras at a time when Congress had banned U.S. military assistance.

The Lower Owens River Project was implemented in June of 1986 to release water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct and enhance the wetlands leading to long-dry Owens Lake. Edith Turner wonders what went wrong. "Before the project began, it was nothing to catch a limit of nice bass in a couple of hours," she wrote to the Inyo Register. "Now I can go weeks without even a hit."