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UCSB Cuts Available Parking

Parking services restricted 218 parking spaces previously available to C permit holders - mostly students - to staff (S) and faculty (A) permit holders during Winter Break.
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Plover Researchers To Request Fence Funding

UCSB's Coal Oil Point Reserve will turn in an application for a grant this Friday to pay for permanent fencing around the habitat of endangered western snowy plovers on Sands Beach.
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Capps Advocates Support for International Students

Capps said foreign students were important to America's diversity and progress, and their rights needed to be respected as security measures increase.
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New Pump House Improves EEMB Seawater Access

After 18 months of construction and $9.2 million in state money, the Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology Department now has access to some of the freshest water for research - freshest salt water th...
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SB Youth Arrested For Possession of Illegal Explosives

A Santa Barbara High School student was booked into juvenile hall on Monday, after Sheriff's deputies found enough materials at his home to make at least four pipe bombs.
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North Couty Group Seeks Redisticting

Citizens for County Organization (CCO) is seeking to create a new county north of the Santa Ynez Mountains as a solution to increasing population and what it perceives to be cultural differences in th...
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City Council Debates Zoning

One month away from incorporation, the new city of Goleta is tackling development right off the bat: a proposed housing project, called the Village at Los Carneros.
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Marshall To Chair SB Board of Supervisors

As chair, Marshall will run the board's weekly meetings, represent the county on several statewide committees, including the California State Association of Counties, and act as chair of the county's ...
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Heater May Be Cause of Picasso Fire

The fire that tore through an apartment at 6651 Picasso Rd. on Nov. 30, leaving two people dead and two others injured, may have been caused by a space heater, authorities say.
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Male Student Dies in San Nicolas Hall

Campus police responded to a 911 call from the residence hall at 9:42 a.m. and discovered Leo Lydon unconscious and unresponsive, a UCPD statement said. Paramedics pronounced him dead on the scene.
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UCSA Lobbies for Three Main Goals in ’01-’02

The University of California Student Association is working this year to get money for student housing while lobbying against a state budget cut that would leave the UC with less funding.
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Police Report Drop in Isla Vista Burglaries

Home burglaries in Isla Vista significantly declined in 2001, while the number of sexual assaults, alcohol-related offenses and arrests for couch fires did not change notably in the last year.
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Authorities Arrest Man for Child Molestation

Gonzalo Arambula, a 42-year-old Goleta resident, was arrested on Dec. 31 for sexually assaulting three juveniles between 1991 and 1998.
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Attias Judge Dismisses Evidence

At a hearing for David Attias last month, Judge Thomas Adams ruled to dismiss evidence collected by the prosecution, but upheld the 13 felony counts, including four counts of murder.
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