House Passes Package To Beef Up Voter Protections; Includes Bills By Ventura County Congresswoman

The House of Representatives passed a package of legislation including bills from a Ventura County congresswoman intended to protect the integrity of voting. HR 1 includes two bills from Democratic Congresswoman Julia Brownley of Westlake Village.

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There was a celebration this weekend on the South Coast with the grand opening of a new school.

Elm Street School in Oxnard, which serves kindergarten through fifth grade, was completely rebuilt on the original campus.

The House of Representatives passed a package of legislation including bills from a Ventura County congresswoman intended to protect the integrity of voting. HR 1 includes two bills from Democratic Congresswoman Julia Brownley of Westlake Village.

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A sinkhole has developed next to a state highway in Ventura County following recent storms, closing one of its lanes indefinitely. The damage is on Highway 126 about a half mile east of Piru.

The former bass guitar player for a Santa Barbara based punk rock band is headed to federal prison after being convicted of a fraud scheme targeting renters and would-be home buyers.

Federal prosecutors say Michael Davenport of Santa Barbara ran a business called “American Standard” which posted online ads for low cost rental units, or homes for sale which didn’t exist. 

One of the top civilian managers at a South Coast military base admitted running a kickback scheme with contractors. Federal prosecutors say Fernando Barroso was a Master Scheduler at Naval Base Ventura County, in the position to approve contracts with vendors. Investigators say the Oxnard man worked out a deal with a vendor to approve phony invoices for work never done in exchange for 50% of the take.

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It's Huge! Rare Giant Fish Native To Southern Hemisphere Found On Santa Barbara County Coastline

It’s a science story which sounds more like a sci-fi story. A fish washed up on a South Coast beach. No big deal, right? Except this fish is seven feet wide, seven feet long, weighs hundreds of pounds, and is normally only found in the Southern Hemisphere. It’s what’s known as a Hoodwinker Sunfish.

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An Algerian government plane believed to be returning the nation's president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, home from Switzerland has landed at Boufarik military airport, southwest of the capital Algiers, as demonstrators have turned out to protest his quest for a fifth term in office.

Bouteflika has been receiving medical treatment in Switzerland since February 24. Protests began two days earlier, demanding that the 82-year-old leader not seek re-election next month.

The 40 days of Lent, which began last week, are a time when many Christians around the world decide to voluntarily give up bad habits or luxuries. This year, it might be time we all consider how to give up – or at least reduce – our reliance on disposable products.

There was a celebration this weekend on the South Coast with the grand opening of a new school.

Elm Street School in Oxnard, which serves kindergarten through fifth grade, was completely rebuilt on the original campus.

In the midst of a presidential budget proposal destined to generate controversy for its expected drastic spending cuts, White House senior adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump wants to have a conversation about increasing the availability and affordability of child care.

NPR has learned that the 2020 White House budget set to be released Monday will call for increased spending on child care and propose an initiative to address shortages.

The Packhorse pub sits in the tiny village of South Stoke in the west of England amid rolling hills dotted with sheep. For more than a century and a half, it played a crucial role in the village and marked milestones in the lives of local families.

Gerard Coles, who was born half a mile from the pub and now brews cider nearby, started coming to the Packhorse when he was 15 and underage, sometimes with his school teacher for lunch.

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When Erin Gilmer filled her insulin prescription at a Denver-area Walgreens in January, she paid $8.50. U.S. taxpayers paid another $280.51.

She thinks the price of insulin is too high. "It eats at me to know that taxpayer money is being wasted," says Gilmer, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes while a sophomore at the University of Colorado in 2002.

The diagnosis meant that for the rest of her life she'd require daily insulin shots to stay alive. But the price of that insulin is skyrocketing.

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