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When Stanford-trained physicist Ken Kihlstrom took a job teaching at
Westmont College, an evangelical Christian school near Santa Barbara,
some of his counterparts at top research universities were baffled.
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California | Local |
By Andy Olsen |
August 24, 2003
Some days, Deputy Mike Berg’s to-do list reads like a cluttered
Hollywood script: Rappel from a hovering helicopter down to a crash
scene, drop a thousand gallons of water on a burning hillside, squint
through night-vision goggles while buzzing the treetops in the outback.
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California | Local |
By Andy Olsen |
August 14, 2003
Three Santa Paula teenagers were hospitalized after they apparently
drank tea brewed from a flower called jimson weed, a toxic plant
known to cause hallucinations, police said Wednesday.
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California | Local |
By Andy Olsen |
August 1, 2003
For 15-year-old Cedric Parsels, the path to a career in nuclear
engineering is strewn with duct tape and plastic wrap.
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California | Local |
By Andy Olsen |
July 31, 2003
When Annemarie Malloy-Robles heard about the controversy surrounding
the wooden cross that overlooks downtown Ventura, she drove up to
snap a photo of the landmark.
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California | Local |
By Andy Olsen |
July 26, 2003
A Ventura County judge fined a Los Angeles man $500,000 and sentenced
him to 210 days in jail Friday for the destruction of some 300 oaks
on his property outside Ojai.
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California | Local |
By Andy Olsen |
July 24, 2003
Sheriff’s detectives have arrested a man in connection with the rape
and drowning of an Oxnard woman, whose body was found on a beach
south of Mussel Shoals in 2001.
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California | Local |
By Andy Olsen |
July 22, 2003
Ventura County supervisors are scheduled to vote today to acquire
nearly 45 acres of rural land along Lewis Road to widen the main
route to Cal State Channel Islands.
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California | Local |
By Andy Olsen |
July 19, 2003
The city of Thousand Oaks filed a lawsuit Friday in an effort to
force Ventura County to keep open a local jail, which the sheriff
plans to close next month to help cover a $10-million budget gap.
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