Credit card thefts at Ventura County health clubs in the last year
are being investigated by federal authorities for a possible link to
a larger fraud ring targeting gyms nationwide, officials said this week.
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Eleven years after a broken oil pipeline spilled 75,000 gallons of
sticky crude into the Santa Clara River, an oil company has reached
an agreement with the federal government to pay the cleanup costs.
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A former investment advisor accused of bilking professional athletes
and seniors out of nearly $18 million has agreed to pay some of it back.
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Watching as fire torched dry brush and threatened expensive homes
near Escondido, Steve Robles felt exhilarated and scared.
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Compared to some of the memorials planned for the anniversary of the
terrorist attacks in New York and at the Pentagon, today’s ceremony
at Leisure Village will be a small affair.
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Walking in Washington,
D.C., Ventura County Undersheriff Craig
Husband heard the explosion when American Airlines Flight 77 slammed
into the Pentagon across the Potomac River.
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A 41-year-old Camarillo man was critically injured Sunday when his
homemade single-engine plane lost power and crashed shortly after
taking off from Oxnard Airport.
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While accused serial rapist Narcisso Solis cruised Thousand Oaks
streets and allegedly raped another woman in July,
DNA evidence
linking him to two earlier sexual assaults sat unattended in a county
crime lab freezer.
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Using
DNA evidence, sheriff’s investigators have arrested a Thousand
Oaks tile setter they suspect is a serial rapist responsible for at
least three sexual assaults in the city during the past four years.
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