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What to know as Southern California’s record heat intensifies
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (656+ words) A heat wave blanketed California and much of the southwestern United States starting March 12 and is expected to calm down over the weekend before temperatures ramp back up and may break records. The March heatwave moved through the West Coast…...
Ventura County braces for heat wave, breaks record for warmest winter
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (585+ words) As Ventura County wraps up its warmest winter, a long, early heat wave could bring record high temperatures to local spots. The forecast calls for March 12-13 to be the hottest this week, with highs in the 80s through the mid-90s expected locally,…...
Oxnard woman arrested in death of her 1-day-old baby
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (281+ words) (This story has been updated to the correct location and the date of the police response.) A 30-year-old Oxnard woman suspected of killing her 1-day-old child was arrested Feb. 8. The Oxnard Police Department said emergency personnel were called to the…...
Bicyclist killed in Oxnard ID'd, Camarillo man suspected of DUI nabbed
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (86+ words) Jacob Dildine, 23, died from multiple blunt force injuries. A driver, who allegedly crashed into a semi, is being held in jail for DUI causing injury. Bicyclist killed in Oxnard ID'd, Camarillo man suspected of DUI nabbed Bicyclist killed in Oxnard…...
Oxnard woman sentenced to two years for vehicular man slaughter
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (167+ words) A 24-year-old Oxnard woman was sentenced to two years in state prison for felony vehicular manslaughter in Santa Barbara Superior Court Jan. 8. The charges stem from a crash on Aug. 13, 2023, when Oxnard resident Ricki Newton crashed into a car, killing…...
'My heart stopped': Missing baby girls found 36 years after mom's body dumped in desert
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (1193+ words) In the vast and lonely Arizona desert about 50 miles south of Las Vegas, tourists who took a wrong turn stumbled across a woman's naked and bloodied body on Dec. 12, 1989. Two days later and nearly 400 miles to the west, good Samaritans…...
'These are arbitrary decisions:' Oxnard woman, her mother swept up by ICE
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (1448+ words) Araceli Bravo-Solano sat in a parked car outside a Camarillo field office when a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent knocked on her window. She had been waiting for her mother who was at a routine immigration appointment inside. The agent…...
Godmother steps up after Oxnard sixth-grader's mother, father deported
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (101+ words) On June 10, the day immigration agents raided farms and packing houses in the fields surrounding Oxnard, she sat with her 12-year-old godson at his parents" home. She told him she just wanted to visit ... Godmother steps up after Oxnard sixth-grader's…...
As ICE reports spike, protesters respond in Oxnard
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (731+ words) Close to 1,000 demonstrators crowded into downtown Oxnard the evening of June 10 to protest increasing reports of federal immigration agents operating in Ventura County. The protest, announced on social media on Tuesday, began in front of Oxnard City Hall at 7 p.m. with…...
Immigration arrests appear to surge in May in Ventura County; exact numbers remain unclear
10+ mon, 3+ day ago (1628+ words) Leaders of the 805 UndocuFund group that helps run an immigration hotline contend at least 53 people in Ventura, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties have been arrested by U.S. Immigration ... As reports of May immigration arrests " at an Oxnard gas station,…...