Ventura County News

Maureen Shea took plenty away from the movie "Million Dollar Baby," which was released in 2004.

Ventura police ordered a Planned Parenthood office evacuated Thursday afternoon after a backpack with a suspicious package was found abandoned in the waiting room, officials said.

DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Nicolette Marselian and her daughter, Las Colinas Middle School sixth-grader Isabel Marselian, 11, make a slime made of polyvinyl alcohol Wednesday at Science Night.

Thrin Short, 16, of Ventura County, Calif., told FoxNews.com she was pushed at least three times by associate professor Mireille Miller-Young during a March 4 anti-abortion outreach event at the University of California in Santa Barbara.

FILE PHOTO / THE STAR The St. Patricks Day Parade Commitee float "the pigmobile" rides up Main Street Saturday afternoon as part of the 20th Annual St. Patrick's Day parade.

Mixed Media Dan Grimm , one of Ventura County's more prolific musicians, recently released yet another pretty record.

Southern California home sales slumped to a February low not seen in six years, DataQuick Information Systems reported Wednesday.

Investigators with the Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office also had not been able to reach his mother, who lives in a remote area of El Salvador.

DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Donna Gillesby, deputy director of Ventura County Animal Services, says goodbye to a rescue dogs loaded onto a private plane Tuesday to be taken to Puyallup, Wash.

Wells Fargo said Wednesday it appointed Ali Nawabi and Carmen De Arcos-Gonzalez district managers for the company's Pacific Coast region in Ventura County.

When U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says of the tea party that the GOP establishment is "going to crush them everywhere," it's a pretty strong indication that the dynamic of Republican politics is shifting.

The Ventura County Star says an animal control officer was sent to a home in Santa Paula Tuesday after a report came in that several dogs were fighting in the backyard.

Photo by Theresa Goldstrand / NAWCWD From left, David Wu, Bradley Dwen and Mitchell Morrow, all of whom work at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Point Mugu, judge science and engineering entries in last month's Hueneme High School annual science fair.

Ventura County entrepreneurs can attend a host of free workshops presented by the Economic Development Collaborative-Ventura County's Small Business Development Center of Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.

TROY HARVEY/THE STAR Deputy Probation Officer Travis Prater pats Jose Ojeda down during a random visit to the youth's Oxnard home.

Photo courtesy NMCB 4 Ensign Brian Douglas of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 briefs other students on his company defense plan through use of his terrain model during an annual Tactical Unit Leadership Course.

In 1967-1968, Denmark native Mogen Frandsen began a pen-pal correspondence with a girl who at the time, lived in Toledo Ohio.

The Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center has taken in 16 pit bulls injured in an apparent dog-fighting ring, officials said Tuesday.

Meteorologists say the winds will rise as a trough of low pressure near Idaho drops south into eastern California, creating moderate to strong offshore flow through Thursday.

Dozens of volunteers participated in Make A Difference Day on Saturday at the Free Clinic of Simi Valley's dental facility.