Ventura County News

Senior citizens and law enforcement personnel have been added to the list of people in Ventura County who can receive swine flu vaccinations, public health officials announced today.

District Attorney Gregory D. Totten announced today that a jury has found Gerardo Resales Villa , of Fillmore, guilty of killing Miguel Gallardo while driving with gross negligence, and while under the influence of alcohol.

A Frazier Park man was arrested on animal cruelty charges for allegedly abandoning puppies by the side of the road in the Los Padres National Forest Monday.

Cats roam free inside their play kennel at the Humane Society's shelter in Ojai.

Chuck Thomas, a former editor and columnist at the Ventura County Star , died Nov.

The California Department of Corrections issued an "escape bulletin" this morning after an inmate from Ventura County disappeared from the California Men's Colony prison near San Luis Obispo.

Police and Fire: A Ventura psychic reader business was damaged by an arson fire Monday night, and a suspicious fire burned an El Rio liquor store early this morning, authorities said.

The disgraced Dr. Scott Takasugi was sentenced to three years and eight months in state prison today on his conviction for sexually exploiting two of his patients three years ago.

A 4-year old boy was killed this morning in an accident at Santa Rosa Road and Applewood Lane.

High winds that battered Ventura County on Tuesday are expected to continue through Thanksgiving, the National Weather Service reported.

A 20,000-gallon tank of crude oil exploded and caught fire in Ventura County, but there were no injuries.

When Roger Avary, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Pulp Fiction, was last month sentenced to a year behind bars for his role in a fatal car crash, it seemed that a promising writing career had come to an abrupt end.

Friday, November 27, 2009 at 4:13 p.m. A cold Pacific storm is taking aim at Southern California a day after the region basked in a summerlike Thanksgiving with highs in the 80s.

"Pulp Fiction" co-screenwriter Roger Avary is behind bars at the Ventura County Jail today -- several days after what is believed to be the writer/director's tweeting revealed that he was serving his sentence for a fatal car crash in a furlough program rather than in jail.

A new bumper sticker: The Stricklands, Taxes Feed Our Family. - Robert A. Gregg, Simi Valley Standards needed The taxpayers of Ventura County are entitled to fully qualified elected officeholders.

An elderly pedestrian was seriously injured this morning when she was struck by a car in Ventura, police said.

Ventura County authorities have arrested Dr. Scott Takasugi , the 56-year-old former Sacramento plastic surgeon who pleaded no contest to sexually exploiting his patients.

Police in Thousand Oaks are searching for an apparently remorseful bank robber. The man walked into the Santa Barbara Bank & Trust on Westlake Boulevard around 2:30 p.m. Monday, claiming he was a former employee and that the company owed him money, police said.

Reported hate crimes increased last year in Ventura County, following a national trend, according to new FBI data released Monday.

After placing in the top 15 two years in a row, a 24-year-old representing the Lake Sherwood area was crowned the 2010 Miss California USA on Sunday in Rancho Mirage.