County Warns Pet Owners of Raccoon Virus
Dog owners in Isla Vista and throughout Santa Barbara County may want to keep their canines on a short leash and away from prowling raccoons.
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Dog owners in Isla Vista and throughout Santa Barbara County may want to keep their canines on a short leash and away from prowling raccoons.
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Saturday, March 1, at 2:20 a.m.: In one of the most flagrant displays of intoxicated I.V. ignorance, an officer inside the IVFP station stepped out the front door to find the source of a loud, slurred...
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Director Eric Byler discusses being young, Asian and American in a novel way: by never directly addressing the subject in his film festival entry, "Charlotte Sometimes."
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The use of Yiddish to describe a solemn Christian tradition might seem out-of-place. However, as Christian-specific a holiday as today might be, its theme of sacrifice spans faiths.
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On Tuesday, the rootin' tootin' state of Texas executed its 298th inmate since the death penalty's re-institution in 1982. Capital punishment - both in Texas and in non-crazy states - is an unsightly ...
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They're helpful. They're conveniently located. And they spit out your money in $20 bills. But the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Dept. is warning residents to be wary of a locally based scam that uses...
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A brawl on the 6700 block of Del Playa Drive on Saturday morning resulted in the incarceration of one man on a charge of battery and another for making criminal threats. The third man has yet to be id...
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The Santa Barbara County Public Works Dept. removed two trees last weekend from the walkway in front of Tapioca Express and Rosarito's on El Embarcadero because the trees' roots had rendered a once le...
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Alcohol and violence combined on the 6700 block of Trigo Road Saturday, resulting in the arrest of a 20-year-old man for rape.
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There were many signs waved in protest of the United States' potential military involvement in Iraq during Saturday's peace rally at De La Guerra Plaza in downtown Santa Barbara.
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Superior Court Judge Diana Hall is contesting the six criminal counts she faces, including a felony count for driving under the influence on Dec. 21. A sheriff's deputy pulled Hall over at gunpoint ju...
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Moments before the Calle Real branch of the Bank of America closed at 6 p.m. on Friday, four armed and hooded men entered, threatened to shoot anyone who might interfere and stole an undisclosed amoun...
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Of course, I am speaking of the ducks that used to call Storke Plaza reflecting pool home. The pool, once a shimmering image of Storke Tower and blue sky, vanished around September and left in its pla...
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What noise does a bunny rabbit make as it flies through a running jet engine? What about a beaver wearing construction boots stomping out the flaming carcass of formerly cute she-skunk?
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A Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office-initiated sting operation on Sunday and Monday resulted in the arrest of 10 men, nine of whom are Santa Barbara County residents, on charges of lewd conduct in ...
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