Two months after major wildfires blackened nearly a quarter of a million acres of its forest land, Big Sur has returned to a normal tourist hum, and a mild Indian summer has set in.
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Three years after a devastating landslide killed 10 people in Ventura County, the owners of an avocado ranch above the coastal hamlet agreed Monday to turn over all 700 acres of their land and other assets to settle a lawsuit.
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Ventura College was locked down briefly this morning after a teenage boy apparently showed off a firearm and a cache of bullets in the college cafeteria.
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For months Pamela Fayed thought her life might be in danger.
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For more than two centuries, the old mission cross perched on a hill above Ventura has been a highly visible beacon for travelers.
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A woman stabbed to death in a Century City parking garage may have confided in attorneys about threats on her life as she and her husband fought over ownership of their gold trading business, and that information could aid homicide investigators, a lawyer representing the dead woman’s daughter told a judge Thursday.
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Following a rebuke from the Montecito Planning Commission on Wednesday, mall developer Rick Caruso said he would consider selling 14 acres of beachfront property rather than conduct additional environmental studies on the site of his proposed luxury resort.
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On a recent day, Maria Velasquez led 25 women in outdoor aerobics at a park in this city’s rough southeast district, home to a large farmworker community.
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Detectives investigating the stabbing death of a woman in a Century City high-rise parking garage earlier this week are looking for possible links to an ongoing
FBI fraud inquiry of the international gold trading company that she and her estranged husband owned, law enforcement officials said.
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A lawyer for the Oxnard middle school student charged with killing gay classmate Lawrence “Larry” King said today that he wants to get the case in front of a jury quickly now that a Ventura County judge has turned down his request to move it to juvenile court.
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