Housing Group Looks To Better Options, Prices

With Santa Barbara south coast median home prices swollen to $859,000, the new non-profit Housing Trust Fund (HTF) of Santa Barbara aims to increase the availability of affordable housing countywide.
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Friendly Fighting Leads to Severe Neck Injury

A UCSB student was listed in fair condition at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital on Monday, two days after incurring a severe neck injury during a front lawn wrestling accident in front of the Alpha Tau ...
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Local Boy Sets Mattress on Fire; Sister Douses Blaze

A four-year-old Santa Maria resident has his sister to thank after she extinguished a small blaze he began while his parents were away. The boy allegedly set fire to a mattress Thursday while playing ...
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Earth Day Fun Draws Crowds

Earth Day festivities attracted upwards of 1,000 revelers Saturday afternoon and evening at Isla Vista's Anisq' Oyo' Park. Activities accommodated people of all ages, ranging from an arts and crafts, ...
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Supervisors Vote to Protect Oak Trees

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to adopt new guidelines designed to protect local native oak trees by closely regulating their removal.
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Police Charge Vandal With 2 Felonies

A UCSB student is facing charges of unlawful entry, felony vandalism and felony drunk driving in an April 6 incident that included the smashing of a computer screen with a pair of hedge clippers and a...
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Ask Val: Val Answers the Tough Questions About the War

In these uncertain and confusing times of international terrorism, political disputes and armed conflict, answers your tough questions on the war with Iraq.
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Club Security Guards Face Assault Charge

Police arrested two bouncers from the Zelo Restaurant and Nightclub after they allegedly beat an unruly patron early Tuesday morning.
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SB Species May Bounce Back

In a victory for environmentalists - and fish dwelling in the sea surrounding the Channel Islands - Santa Barbara coastal waters became part of the second-largest "no-fishing" zone in the United State...
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U.S. Army Recruits Locals

A computer screensaver behind Staff Sergeant Steven Mollnhauer depicts an endless line of animated U.S. Army paratroopers jumping rhythmically from a transport plane and descending onto unseen terrain...
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Marine Gets Citizenship After Death

When Filipino-born Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Menusa, 33, died for the United States during combat in Iraq on March 27, he was not a U.S. citizen. By the time he is buried in Tracy, Calif., later this week, ...
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Car Strikes Two Students

Freshmen Rachelle Lieppman and Gabriella Ascione, both 18, were struck from behind at 10:30 p.m. while traveling southbound with four friends on Camino Corto toward Abrego Road.
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County Project Smooths Way For Pedestrians

everal hundred feet of Isla Vista sidewalks have recently been repaired to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act specifications and Santa Barbara County Public Works Dept. drainage and safety gu...
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Elderly Man Kills Wife, Calls 911

Sheriff's deputies arrested an elderly Lompoc man Tuesday morning on suspicion of murdering his wife. Officers responded to the home of Eugene Carl Morgan, 77, after dispatch received information from...
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Local Student Incurs Injury in DP Attack

A Santa Barbara City College student suffered head injuries in an apparently unprovoked attack early Friday morning on Del Playa Drive. Ian Gililland, 20, was admitted to Goleta Valley Cottage Hospita...
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