Ventura County News

The following story was reported by Capital and Main and published here in collaboration with The Huffington Post.

Brussels is a city of many contrasts. The United Nations calls Brussels home, and so do countless vagabonds and world travelers.

At the age of 10, I became a self-elected member of the anti-smoking campaign in my house.

No protests. No children in the schools. No effect on city services. Two children with pneumonia treated at a local hospital and paid for by the federal government.

Will the City of Fillmore continue to attract tourism to town without the Fillmore and Western Train is a question many Fillmore residents are asking.

A fresh and powerful new voice on the contemporary jazz scene, Cheryl Barnes - whose new full-length album Listen To This is scoring airplay everywhere from KCRW in Los Angeles to WNVW in Cleveland - will be sharing a "Hot Night of Cool Jazz" with renowned R&B/Jazz singer Johnny Britt on Saturday, August 16 in Port Hueneme, Calif.

The Citrus Classic Balloon Festival is known as such a great showcase for the area that the woman who created it was honored as Santa Paula's Citizen of the Year.

A sheriff's statement says someone in a rented pontoon boat on Cachuma Lake saw what appeared to be a body Monday and called 911.

The Ventura County Star reported that the Sunday morning explosion happened inside the Ortiz Bakery, blowing out the store's windows and injuring one of two people inside the business.

IRWINDALE >> Parked outside the Sriracha factory Friday morning below the U.S. and California flags were the two newest, bright-red additions to the hot sauce plant on Azusa Canyon Road - mini tour buses.

Classics in the Park, which has been mounting summer performances of classic plays in Ventura County for more than two decades, will perform Georges Feydeau 's riotous bedroom farce, The Lady From Maxim's, August 9 through 17, at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts in Thousand Oaks.

DEAN SHIELS insists Rangers' stint Stateside has proven worthwhile so far despite the Light Blues shock friendly defeat this week.

Deputies have arrested three suspects who are allegedly involved in the kidnapping and beating of a Camarillo man that occurred in May, officials said Friday.

When lime prices hit triple-digits earlier this year, some shippers I talked to said restaurants were switching to lemons as a cheaper substitute.

Singer-songwriter Dan Grimm's most recent album boasts some of the best players around - and not just Ventura County around, but the whole of the music business: Dave Palmer , Neal Casal , Bob Glaub , Don Heffington and Jesse Siebenberg .

The numbers are in and the totals have been tallied. At the end of the June, the first month of the 3-month ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge , Foothills Animal Shelter in Golden has placed second in the overall competition and finished first in Division 4. For winning the division, the shelter receives a $5,000 grant.

CLOSE QUARTERS: More than 350 detained immigrants were being housed inside the McAllen Border Patrol Station in Texas as of Tuesday.

The largest banking company based in the central San Joaquin Valley is about to grow bigger with the purchase of a Southern California bank.

It's more than apparent that the wounds are still fresh almost two years after the police shooting death of Alfonso Limon Jr. in Oxnard's La Colonia neighborhood.

The growing threat of pneumonia, influenza and other serious diseases at the border has not been a concern for ABC.