El Rio News

Ventura County officials will go over the next phase of the plan to convert 1,300 homes in the El Rio area from septic systems to a sewer line at a community meeting tonight.

Ventura had six violent incidents Halloween night, one of them gang-related and one police suspect was gang-related. Two took place at or near large Halloween parties.

Death Valley High , Friday @ Annie's Social Club. $7. 9 p.m. A great line-up tonight at Annie's features Perfect Machines , Killola and Pinky Swear .

Joey Hernandez, 21, of the 1400 block of Amber Court, 5:14 p.m. Friday, at Wal-Mart, 7150 Camino Arroyo.

Jose Cuervo Sosa, a drug counselor for Alternative Action Programs, studies to become a state-certified counselor.

California Highway Patrol Officer Frank Parmo guards a closed section of Central Avenue on Monday after reports of shots fired at the Juvenile Justice Center in El Rio.

Police late Thursday night arrested a man suspected of attacking and attempting to sexual assault a woman during a burglary in her Oxnard home that morning, authorities said.

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Ventura County sheriff's deputies were searching for a suspect who shot at a juvenile courthouse Monday.

By From staff reports Originally published 10:10 a.m., October 19, 2009 Updated 10:10 a.m., October 19, 2009 The Ventura County Sheriff's Department this morning is searching near the Juvenile Justice Center in El Rio for a person who fired shots in the area, including one into a window of the facility, authorities said.

The Oxnard City Council approved a move Tuesday night to give voters a chance to decide whether to redraw the city limits and open the possibility of building 2,500 homes at Jones Ranch, a 160-acre area of strawberry fields to the north of the city.

Investigators with the Ventura County Sheriff's Department arrested four people on Wednesday in connection with methamphetamine, including a Santa Paula man, Michael Chavez, suspected of selling the drug.

A Ventura County school superintendent has been accused of shoplifting at a local department store.

One Bay Area bar has figured out how to convince people it is a community center.

In celebrating Discardia this time I was going through some old boxes, finding things that can be discarded and re-discovering things that are important and which should never have been buried in a box.

By From staff reports Originally published 10:51 a.m., October 2, 2009 Updated 10:51 a.m., October 2, 2009 An Oxnard teen who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a shooting incident at an El Rio school was sentenced this week to six years in prison, the Ventura County Sheriff's Department reported.

Three gang members attacked and robbed a Watsonville man early Monday morning as he left an oft-troubled downtown bar, police said.

No Alternative , Saturday @ El Rio. $8. 10 p.m. Classic punk rock San Francisco style.

13 for Ariella Ben-Dov's MadCat Women's International Film Festival, an annual event that brings experimental films by women directors to local and - via an energetic touring schedule - international audiences.

After an August with comparatively few film festivals here on Frisco Bay, September is bringing the beginnings of an Autumn onslaught of them.