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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
The body of a 14-year-old Goleta girl who had been missing since Monday night was discovered yesterday in the brush along Highway 101. California Highway Patrol officials said the investigation is being considered a hit-and-run collision.
Authorities confirmed the body was that of Christina Veloz-Payne at 5 p.m., about five hours after a Caltrans
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BY ERIC LINDBERG
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
A Superior Court judge denied a motion by the attorney of Jesse James Hollywood, the alleged mastermind behind the slaying of a 15-year-old boy, to rule out the death penalty as a possible sentence yesterday.
“This seems a bit premature,” Judge Brian Hill said. “We haven’t even got to the point of guilt or innocence to the charges filed.”
He said
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BY COLBY FRAZIER
DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER
Santa Barbara Police officers arrested two men yesterday for allegedly kicking a 57-year-old man in the face after he told the duo he didn’t have any money.
Sgt. Lorenzo Duarte, a police spokesman, said the victim was walking to work with his 17-year-old daughter in the 200 block of north Milpas St. on Wednesday when the assault occurred.
The victim
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Aug. 28, 11:40 p.m. — Nightlife enforcement officers on patrol received a phone call from security personnel at Tonic nightclub about a woman using a false ID. Police arrived and examined the Brazilian passport being used by the woman as identification. Officers immediately spotted discrepancies in facial structure and questioned the woman.
She admitted to being an 18-year-old Santa Barbara
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BY BENJAMIN GOTTLIEB
DAILY SOUND CORRESPONDENT
In an emblematic display of community support, the Junior League of Santa Barbara (JLSB) awarded $6,100 in grant money this week in support of six new programs designed by Santa Barbara nonprofit organizations.
Known as the Community Assistance Fund, the JLSB grant awards funds to local organizations which help improve the lives of at-risk children,
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Wrapping up last week’s Democratic National Convention.
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Just six months ago Santa Barbara County supervisors debated with some bitterness about how best to spend this year’s offshore oil-flavored kick-down from the federal government.
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A 66-year-old woman training for a run to raise money to support cancer research was killed when she was hit by a van driven by a 56-year-old man, whom police say was driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs on Las Positas Road the morning of Saturday, August 30.
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Montecito Water District officials are cautiously optimistic that managers of Oprah Winfrey’s two Montecito properties have brought the media mogul’s spigots under control.
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The preliminary hearing of the six adults and minors charged in the July 2007 stabbing death of Lorenzo Carachure has come to a close.
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Plans for a three-story complex of 45 condos on East Montecito Street selling marginally below market was approved by the Santa Barbara Planning Commission last week by a vote of 6-1 and will be reviewed by the Santa Barbara City Council next week.
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Designed to share the survivors’ extreme prison camp rags-to-new-world riches stories with the public and cultivate awareness between people from different backgrounds, the Jewish Federation has found that the group they have been able to reach in an especially meaningful way is at-risk youth.
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In a nutshell, at the first Gatsby Jazz Festival Saturday at the Polo Grounds, technical bugaboos threatened to undermine the well-laid plan, but the smooth jazz party prevailed.
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A review of this Isla Vista institution serving Mexican food in a college atmosphere.
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By the end of our long afternoon of music in the park last Sunday, it was Carpinteria’s Dominic Balli who walked away the winner of the first Independent Road to West Beach Contest.
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A review of this down-home neighborhood diner serving breakfast and lunch.
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It’s hard to believe two years have passed since my father was so brutally taken from us.
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I just came across your article titled “Solstice Funds Withheld,” which seemed slanted toward Solstice and against the decision of the S.B. Arts Commission.
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What's in a name? If it's Burgundy, Champagne, or Napa, it's not just wine. It's a place, too, and there is simply no argument about it.
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Chris Carter talks Santa Barbara, surfing, and the future.
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Everyone knows that Willie Nelson is a country music legend who often wears pigtails, always boasts a pot-smoking outlaw image, and, at the ripe old age of 75, continues to constantly tour the world.
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Referring to the disputed relationship between oil extraction and a decrease in oil and gas natural seepage, you wrote: “Ironically, the UCSB research used to back up this claim done by Bruce P. Luyendyk at the Coal Oil Point reserve beneath Platform Holly was effectively discredited by Luyendyk himself Tuesday when he testified that such conclusions drawn from his work were unjustified and unwarranted extrapolations” [“Santa Barbara Eyes Black Gold,” 8/28/08,
independent.com/blackgold].
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El Capitan Ranch made a beautiful setting for this holiday weekend party.
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Directed by Westmont Theater graduate Casey Caldwell, Cuts focuses on the poignant and silly stories people share about their hair.
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Say what you will about Jack Johnson’s campfire-ready, sing-a-long friendly brand of acoustic rock—the UCSB alum can put on a show.
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The Wildling Art Museum (2329 Jonata St., Los Olivos) will hold an awards dinner and benefit auction on Saturday, September 20, to open their fall exhibition, Nocturnes.
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Martha Stewart carried one to court when she faced criminal charges. So did rapper Lil’ Kim. It’s the ultimate stealth “it bag,” the Hermes Birkin.
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True science fiction film fans haven’t had much to chew on lately.
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When former Beach Boy and pop music legend Brian Wilson takes the stage at the Lobero Theatre on Wednesday night, he feels there will be a lot riding on the reception of his new record, That Lucky Old Sun.
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A Touch Away on DVD: This Israeli TV miniseries directed by Zafrir Kochanovsky has recently made its U.S. debut at the 2008 Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival.
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John McCain spent over five years as a POW in Viet Nam.
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No, it’s not a how-to guide for aspiring domestic goddesses.
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Mel’s Memories
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The Teamsters Union has filed a grievance with the National Labor Relations Board charging that the Santa Barbara News-Press terminated sports writer Dennis Moran this past weekend because he belongs to the union’s bargaining team.
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Road trips are a staple of summertime travel, and this version of Off the Wall is inspired by a mini-trip down the coast to explore our neighbors to the south: Montecito and Summerland.
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At the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, a group of Palestinian terrorists storms the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes, killing two and taking nine others hostage.
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London’s Savile Row and Haley Street in Santa Barbara might seem light years apart—until you meet Michael Anderson.
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You have the power to improve your community and change lives! Help other adults improve their reading and writing skills.
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Two wayward surfers — lost in the fog and paddling miles offshore — were plucked from Santa Barbara Channel waters on 8/27 by the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Santa Barbara's newest buzz-worthy restaurant, The Boathouse at Hendry’s Beach, has staying power and is sure to become a staple on the dining scene.
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A black man might be elected U.S. president this year, but there was a time in the not-too-distant past when it was tough for an African American to be hired by a major newspaper.
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A news brief in the August 28 issue contained several factual errors about the closing of Morninglory Music.
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If the title Frozen River readily reminds us of Mystic River, there are areas of thematic crossover between the two.
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Naples seemed to go out with a whimper, not a roar.
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Arianna Huffington will be speaking on History In The Making: The 2008 Election at this year’s Politics, Sex & Cocktails annual fundraising event
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Goleta-based Direct Relief International (DRI) announced on 9/1 that it will send $250,000 in “special hurricane response funds” to assist medical units responding to Hurricane Gustav.
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Flavor of India is a small, family-owned and -operated favorite on upper State Street. Expect attentive service and the highest quality ingredients used to make everything, even cheese, from scratch.