LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Fire officials issued immediate evacuation orders on Monday for the entire community of Montecito, California, and portions of Santa Barbara and other adjacent towns due to heightened flood and mudslide hazards from a recent string of heavy rainstorms. The evacuation alert, posted by the Montecito Fire Department on Twitter, came five … Read more
LOS ANGELES – A federal jury has found two Mexican men guilty of drug and alien trafficking charges after law enforcement caught them on a panga boat containing 45 pounds of methamphetamine and 11 undocumented non-citizens from Mexico on a Santa Barbara County beach, the Justice Department announced today. Jorge Muñoz-Muñoz, 26, of … Read more
LOS ANGELES – A Santa Barbara man was sentenced today to 133 months in federal prison for stealing approximately $14 million from victims who thought their investments would be used to purchase annuities issued by Swiss insurance companies and for failing to pay over $3 million in federal income tax. Darrell Arnold Aviss, … Read more
IRVINE, Calif., March 10, 2022 — The Habit Burger Grill, the California-based company renowned for its award-winning Charburgers grilled over an open flame, signature sandwiches, fresh-cut salads and more announces the grand opening of a new restaurant in El Cajon. Located at 2992 Jamacha Rd, the fast-casual restaurant will serve up its ‘Habit Hospitality’ on March … Read more
LOS ANGELES – A Santa Barbara man who allegedly stole approximately $12 million from victims who thought their investments would be used to purchase annuities today faces new charges of failing to pay over $3 million in federal income tax and concealing bank accounts in Monaco used to hide ill-gotten gains. A superseding … Read more
Director of Media Relations Kelly Thornton (619) 546-9726 or Kelly.Thornton@usdoj.gov NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – September 8, 2021 SAN DIEGO – Matthew Taylor Coleman of Santa Barbara was indicted by a federal grand jury today for taking his two young children to Rosarito, Mexico and killing them. Coleman, 40, allegedly killed the 2-year-old boy and 10-month-old … Read more
LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury today returned an 11-count indictment that alleges a Santa Barbara man stole approximately $12 million from victims who were promised their money would be used to purchase annuities from Swiss insurance companies. Darrell Arnold Aviss, 63, of Santa Barbara, was charged today with five counts of … Read more
Saturday, March 20: (12) UC-Santa Barbara vs. (5) Creighton College hoop fans will be anxious to see if 19th-ranked Creighton can bounce back from a devastating 25-point loss to Georgetown in the Big East title game. Creighton shot just 29% from the floor, and 42% from the free-throw line. That’s not the only disappointing outing … Read more
SANTA BARBARA, CA – On Sunday, January 17, 2021 at approximately 7:40 P.M. the Santa Barbara Police Department was called to Santa Barbara Junior High School on a report of an individual attempting to saw down the School’s historically-relevant wooden flagpole. Upon arrival Officers saw an adult male now identified as Santa Barbara resident, Steven … Read more
SANTA BARBARA, CA – The Santa Barbara Police Department arrested two men while checking out a local convenience store. According to police, on January 7, 2021 at approximately 11:00 P.M., Officers from a Santa Barbara Police Department specialized unit, conducted a premise check at a local convenience store in the 400 Block of North Milpas. … Read more
Juice it up! Opens first santa barbara county location in santa maria Leading Smoothie, Raw Juice, & Superfruit Bowl Chain Expands into Santa Barbara County Newport Beach, CA (-) Juice It Up!, one of the nation’s leading handcrafted smoothie, açaí bowl and raw juice chains, is excited to announce that its first Santa Barbara County … Read more
By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO -Banco Santander Brasil SA on Thursday beat second-quarter net income market expectations but its loan-loss provisions rose against a challenging macroeconomic backdrop, sending its shares almost 3% lower. Net profit rose 2% from the previous quarter to a better-than-expected 4.08 billion reais ($778.08 million), as analysts polled by Refinitiv had … Read more
by Sandy Hickman LACEY TOWNSHIP, NJ – How do you tell a story about a storyteller? It’s hard. In fact, this may be the most difficult story we’ve ever had to tell and the thing is, it’s not about an animal. It’s about thousands of animals, and how those animal’s lives have been impacted by … Read more
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – A former resident of Santa Barbara County was sentenced today to three months in federal prison for fatally shooting a northern elephant seal on a beach near San Simeon. Jordan Gerbich, 30, who at the time of the offense resided in Santa Maria and who now lives in Coalville, Utah, was … Read more
NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J. — The Sharing Network Foundation has awarded scholarships to 12 high school seniors from across New Jersey who have shown exceptional commitment to raising awareness about organ and tissue donation and transplantation. The 2025 graduates were recognized during a ceremony at NJ Sharing Network’s headquarters in New Providence. Each recipient was honored … Read more
MONTECITO, Calif. — A Nevada man was arrested Wednesday after violently assaulting a woman and barricading himself inside the Montecito residence of Ty Warner, the reclusive billionaire CEO of Beanie Babies, authorities said. Russell Maxwell Phay, 43, was taken into custody on May 21 following a standoff with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office and … Read more
Illegal migrants are increasingly turning toward California’s beaches as a pathway to enter the U.S., The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. While illegal migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have surged under the Biden administration, the number of successful and failed attempts to enter via boat in California has also jumped from 308 in … Read more
Clifton, NJ – Hailey Mia, a 16-year-old from Clifton and a junior at Passaic County Technical Institute, has already made a splash on NBC’s “The Voice” in 2021, finishing in fourth place. Now, she’s aiming for success on ABC’s “American Idol,” with her audition set to air on Sunday at 8 p.m. After her notable … Read more
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – An atmospheric river pounded California with thunderstorms and hail on Monday but spared the state major damage as there were no tornadoes which had been forecast as a possibility. Packing gusty winds, the storms knocked out power for more than 11,000 customers, according to PowerOutage.us, flooded roads, knocked down trees … Read more
(Reuters) -More than 350,000 homes and businesses were without electricity in California on Monday after a storm pounded the state with heavy rainfall and hurricane-force winds, initially knocking out power to more than one million customers, according to electric utilities and PowerOutage.us. The storm is the second so-called Pineapple Express weather system, or atmospheric river, … Read more
By Daniel Trotta and Maria Caspani CARLSBAD, Calif. (Reuters) -Heavy rainfall and hurricane-force winds pounded much of California on Sunday, knocking out power for 900,000 customers and threatening serious floods as forecasters expect the storm to stall over major cities for the next day or two. The storm is the second Pineapple Express weather system, … Read more
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A second, more powerful atmospheric river storm was headed for Southern California this weekend, threatening to unleash life-threatening floods and landslides, forecasters warned on Friday, even as much of the state was drying out from an earlier deluge. Gradually intensifying rain was expected to begin dousing California on Saturday, … Read more
By Sabrina Valle (Reuters) – It is the end of an era for Big Oil in California, as the most populous U.S. state divorces itself from fossil fuels in its fight against climate change. California’s oil output a century ago amounted to it being the fourth-largest crude producer in the U.S., and spawned hundreds of … Read more
Collier County, FL – The Collier County Sheriff’s Office is currently conducting an investigation into the disappearance of two teenagers from Lehigh Acres. Yeni Saldanas, 17, and Gracibel Saldanas, 13, were reported missing after they were last seen in the vicinity of Whitaker Road and Santa Barbara Blvd on Wednesday. Yeni Saldanas is described as … Read more
By Sabrina Valle HOUSTON (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil’s write-down of about $2.5 billion of troubled California properties aims to end five decades of offshore oil production in the state, but a full exit from those assets could take some time. Sable Offshore, a company created in 2020, agreed more than a year ago to pay … Read more
By Sabrina Valle HOUSTON (Reuters) -Exxon Mobil Corp warned on Thursday it would write down about $2.5 billion of California assets in the fourth quarter, and said lower energy prices reduced operating profits. The snapshot by the largest U.S. oil producer showed operating results could drop to about $8.9 billion, down 30% from the $12.7 … Read more
Organizer With Deep CCP Ties Helped Bus Hundreds Into San Francisco To Welcome Chinese Dictator Philip Lenczycki on November 15, 2023 An individual with a long history of support for a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) front group arranged for buses to transport “almost 1,000” overseas Chinese to San Francisco to welcome General Secretary Xi Jinping, … Read more
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Archdiocese of Baltimore filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection on Friday, saying it intends to seek a settlement of sex abuse claims by people who allege they were abused as children by Catholic priests. The bankruptcy filing was spurred by a Maryland state law set to take effect … Read more
By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday refused to overturn a California county’s decision to block Exxon Mobil Corp from using tanker trucks to ship crude oil from coastal facilities to inland refineries while a ruptured pipeline is fixed. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles denied Exxon’s bid to reverse … Read more
By Bryan Woolston and Rollo Ross CATHEDRAL CITY, California (Reuters) – Storm Hilary flooded streets, downed power lines and triggered mudslides across Southern California on Monday after unleashing record-breaking downpours overnight, but no U.S. deaths were attributed to the storm and fears of disaster dissipated. Hilary arrived in California as a rare tropical storm that … Read more
By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco filed for bankruptcy on Monday, saying a Chapter 11 reorganization will facilitate a settlement of about 500 lawsuits accusing the church of enabling childhood sexual abuse by priests. The filing in U.S. bankruptcy court in San Francisco will put the lawsuits on hold and … Read more
‘We Are Concerned’: California Professors Frustrated Over University System’s Revised Math Standards Brandon Poulter on July 7, 2023 Professors in California are staging a quiet protest against a new admissions policy they say leaves students unprepared for college-level math courses, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. The University of California (UC) system expanded the … Read more
Professional Censors Are Furious That A Federal Court Stopped The Biden Admin From Suppressing Speech Jason Cohen on July 6, 2023 “Disinformation researchers” are furious after a court order issued on Tuesday prohibited the government from collaborating with social media platforms to censor protected speech, according to the New York Times. The researchers asserted that … Read more
By Blake Brittain (Reuters) -Alphabet Inc’s Google must pay $32.5 million in damages for infringing one of smart-speaker maker Sonos Inc’s patents in its wireless audio devices, a San Francisco federal jury decided on Friday. The case is part of a sprawling intellectual property dispute between the former collaborators that includes other lawsuits in the … Read more
(Reuters) – Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller on Wednesday said that while inverted yield curves in the context of stable inflation often point to a bad economic outlook, the current yield curve inversion may signal better times ahead. “What you’re seeing in the inversion is not so much fears about bad economic outcomes in the … Read more
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller on Wednesday said he is concerned about the lack of progress on inflation, and while skipping an interest rate hike at the U.S. central bank’s meeting next month may be possible, an end to the hiking campaign isn’t likely. “I do not support stopping rate hikes unless we get clear … Read more
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The pilot of a small private plane who posted a video of himself intentionally crashing his airplane in California and then destroyed the wreckage has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. Trevor Daniel Jacob, a 29-year-old “YouTuber pilot,” from Lompoc, … Read more
‘His Staff Overprotects Him’: Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna Blasts Biden Staffers Over Lack Of Press Conferences Harold Hutchison on April 28, 2023 Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California criticized Biden administration staffers Friday, saying they should allow Biden to do more press conferences. “I am a person of democracy. I think he is actually really … Read more
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – A gunshot detection system in Virginia Beach led police to a suspected shooter last week. On March 12, at 4:03 A.M., a Virginia Beach Police Department (VBPD) officer responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the 5000 block of Wesleyan Drive. As the officer approached the area, more gunshots were heard from … Read more
By Steve Gorman and Brendan O’Brien LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California, reeling from a month-long string of late-winter storms, braced for another bout of heavy rains, wind and snow on Monday, while most of New York state and New England girded for a powerful Nor’easter. The leading edge of the latest Pacific storm swept into … Read more
(Reuters) -WeWork Inc is in talks with investors to restructure its outstanding debt of more than $3 billion and raise more cash, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Shares of the company rose about 5% in extended trading following the news. The company, which offers workstations, private offices and customized floors, had enjoyed a … Read more
By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) -A winter storm spreading across the U.S. West into the Northern Plains and Midwest on Tuesday could produce blizzards, brutal cold, and record snowfall, making roads treacherous and disrupting air travel. The National Weather Service issued winter storm, blizzard and high-wind advisories for large parts of the western and north-central United … Read more
ICE Arrests 16 Illegal Immigrant Drug Criminals Trevor Schakohl on February 13, 2023 Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Los Angeles arrested 16 convicted drug criminals in the U.S. illegally in about two weeks, the agency announced Monday. The 16 individuals had been convicted of fentanyl, methamphetamine or heroin trafficking or … Read more
Abortion Is Infiltrating College Campuses — With The Help Of Democratic Lawmakers Alexa Schwerha on January 29, 2023 A 2019 California bill went into effect on Jan. 1 to require public colleges and universities to stock abortion pills on campus, which was replicated by Massachusetts and is currently being considered by lawmakers in New York. Pro-life organizations … Read more
By Mimosa Spencer PARIS (Reuters) – LVMH Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault has reshuffled top management at his luxury goods empire, tightening his family’s grip with the appointment of his daughter Delphine to lead Christian Dior, and naming a new boss for Louis Vuitton. Pietro Beccari, who has been the head of Dior since 2018, … Read more
By Jorge Garcia LA CONCHITA, Calif. (Reuters) – The latest Pacific storm unleashed torrential downpours and damaging winds in California on Tuesday, knocking out power and turning city streets into rivers as mudslides cut off highways and entire communities faced evacuation orders. More than 33 million Californians were threatened by severe weather throughout the day … Read more
By Erica Urech and Steve Gorman MONTECITO, Calif. (Reuters) -The latest in a string of Pacific storms blamed for at least 12 deaths soaked California on Monday, prompting evacuations of some 25,000 people, including the entire town of Montecito and nearby areas of the Santa Barbara coast, due to heightened flood and mudslide risks. The … Read more
By Sharon Bernstein and Kate Fishman SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) -A massive Pacific storm unleashed high winds, torrential rains and heavy snow across California for a second day on Thursday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and disrupting road travel with flash floods, rock slides and toppled trees. At least two fatalities have … Read more
LOS ANGELES – Pursuant to two settlements announced today, several Central Coast health care providers have agreed to pay a total of $22.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated federal and California law by causing the submission of false claims to Medi-Cal related to Medicaid Adult Expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable … Read more
California Dems Wage Disinformation Battle Over Abortion Ballot Measure Laurel Duggan on November 3, 2022 California Democrats are making misleading claims about Proposition 1, a ballot measure that would add an explicit right to abortion in the state’s constitution, according to statements and documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Supporters of Proposition 1 … Read more
