Ventura County News

CARLOS CHAVEZ/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Hundreds take to the course of the 5 and 10K run/walk during the Hope 4Kids Festival and Run at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks Saturday.

Lisa McKinnon/Star staff Plastic totes filled with vegetables await members of the Rio Gozo Farm CSA in Ventura.

RANCHO PALOS VERDES >> Los Angeles County Sheriff, Los Angeles Police and Coast Guard officials have taken at least two people into custody after a panga boat washed up on the shore of Abalone Cove Shoreline Park in Rancho Palos Verdes early Saturday morning.

California is adding jobs faster than the national average, and the state has a budget surplus for the first time since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000.

TROY HARVEY/THE STAR Jessie Richter , Michael Smith and Russ Redmond of Gray Whales Count keep a sharp eye on the water as they scan for whales Thursday at Coal Oil Point in Goleta.

Contributed photo Kahlua's story is not an easy one. After 18 years as a loyal family member, Kahlua was surrendered when her family was moving away.

The clerk said a man forced himself into the hotel through a side door and made the clerk open a safe, officials said.

Contributed photo/20th Century Fox Diogo Morgado stars as Jesus in "Son of God."

The Ventura County Star reports board members of the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District have approved a staff study of the proposal.

As part of an ongoing commitment to provide senior life planning education, Senior Concerns will present a free seminar, "Can I Eat for Pleasure and Wellness: The Facts About Nutrition as You Age," on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 5:30-7:00 p.m. at Senior Concerns, 401 Hodencamp Road, Thousand Oaks.

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.