Ventura County News

The Camarillo Library and Paws for Learning with their reading therapy dogs at the Camarillo Family YMCA Hiji Center Healthy Kids Day last year.

Her father, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, was a leading figure in the struggle and a close associate of the Rev.

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A California legislator warns that if the Keystone XL pipeline is rejected, expect tar sands to be transported by rail to Calif.

CHUCK KIRMAN/THE STAR Ami Ballmer and Claire Jurgensen, students at Foothill Technology High School in Ventura, add an enzyme to a tissue sample at Coastal Marine Biolabs.

A wind advisory will be in force in the Antelope Valley from 11 this morning until 9 tonight, while in the Los Angeles and Ventura county portions of the San Gabriels, a wind advisory will be in effect from 8 tonight until 4 a.m. Wednesday.

If the owner of a mobile home park violates Ventura County's rent control ordinance, residents of the approximately 25 such parks in unincorporated areas all pay the county's investigative costs.

Re: your April 17 article, "County homeless numbers down": The release of the recent point-in-time count of Ventura County's homeless population is often misinterpreted as the total number of homeless men, women and children in our community.

The proposed Rim of the Valley National Recreation Area would run from the Simi Hills, the Verdugo Hills, the Santa Monica Mountains, the San Fernando Valley and into the western part of the Angeles National Forest.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) April 21--With the growing need to handle business and personal records that exist in digital form, consumers are relying more on companies such as Calabasas-based IDrive to protect their data.

A: That's going to be a 21.5-acre shopping center currently known as "Riverlakes Galleria."

The board of trustees unanimously voted this week to approve Matt Baldwin as the school's next principal, beginning in July.

Michael Cole's bill for one CrunchTada Pizza and two beef tacos came to $4,050. It was either a mistake, or one of the costliest meals in the history of Santa Paula's Del Taco.

A two-day celebration of Anglo-American relations and British culture will make its Ventura County debut Saturday and Sunday.

KAREN QUINCY LOBERG/THE STAR Peter Camacho Jr. portrays Jesus while fellow members of Victory Outreach, Esteban Morales and Richard Bustos, play centurions leading him to his crucifixion in the opening act of "Jesus Remember Me" on Sunday in Port Hueneme.

CHUCK KIRMAN/THE STAR Kids collect colorful plastic eggs at the Ventura County Animal Services' Easter Eggstravaganza on Saturday.

Avila, an Oxnard resident was hit by a vehicle about 5:30 a.m. near Seventh and F streets, officials said.

At least one person was taken to the hospital by helicopter Saturday following a crash that closed the highway for almost two hours outside of Fillmore, officials said.

CHUCK KIRMAN/THE STAR Applicants wait in line Saturday outside Cabrillo Economic Development Corp.'s Ventura office to be among the first to apply for a spot in the Wagon Wheel Family Apartments.

Officials said Colin Taylor Volpe, 32, held up a JP Morgan Chase Bank located in the 2100 block of East Ponderosa Drive about 2:10 p.m. Volpe - described as a transient - was held without bail at the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas on a charge of being a fugitive from another state.