The Ventura City Council voted Tuesday to initiate a new rate study for water and wastewater services in response to higher cost estimates for the city’s planned water recycling program. Residents could see higher utility bills as soon as July 2025, a year earlier than planned, to help fund the VenturaWaterPure program. The project includes […]
Police are investigating a fatal shooting that was reported late Saturday night in Ventura. Police said they received a call around 10:45 p.m., notifying them that a shooting had just occurred in the 100 block of West Simpson Street on the west side of town. Officers arrived within three minutes and found a male victim […]
Here’s a roundup of recent incidents and announcements from Ventura County agencies: Assault victim identified Authorities have released the name of a man who died when he was struck by several vehicles after he was left lying in the road following an assault Sunday night in Oxnard. Alberto Garcia was 57, according to the Ventura […]
1 youth arrested, fellow cyclists sought in attacks A 13-year-old was taken into custody Saturday night for allegedly throwing a rock at a woman in west Ventura. The Ventura Police Department said it received multiple calls of a group of juveniles causing disturbances while riding electric bicycles around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. Witnesses told officers the […]
Two people were killed on Highway 101 in Ventura early Saturday in a wrong-way crash that closed the northbound freeway for hours. The incident was reported shortly before 2:30 a.m. north of Seaward Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol. A driver was said to be traveling southbound in the northbound lanes, the agency’s log […]
The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday two separate police shootings it investigated, one in 2022 and the other in 2023, were both justified uses of deadly force and will not be prosecuted. The first incident was the fatal Simi Valley police shooting of Derrick Padilla in 2022. Padilla was a suspect in his […]
Two women from the Los Angeles area were arrested by Ventura County authorities on suspicion of running a spa business in Newbury Park that offered illegal commercial sex services. Min Qiao, 44, of Hacienda Heights and Xia Baker, 58, of Rowland Heights were arrested earlier this month and are facing charges for pimping and pandering. […]
A 2016 surveillance video obtained exclusively by CNN shows Sean “Diddy” Combs grab, shove, drag and kick his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura during an altercation that matches allegations in a now-settled federal lawsuit filed by Ventura in November. The footage, compiled from multiple camera angles dated March 5, 2016, appears to show the rapper, producer and […]
A Santa Paula man was sentenced to prison after nearly killing his neighbor during an argument. Richard Steven Valencia, 45, was sentenced Thursday to 25 years to life in prison for the attempted murder, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. On Oct. 9, 2020, Valencia was involved in a verbal argument with his […]
Here’s a roundup of recent incidents and announcements from Ventura County agencies: 2nd arrest made in pharmacy burglaries A second Los Angeles County man was arrested last week in connection to a string of pharmacy burglaries in Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley late last year. A 21-year-old Huntington Park man was taken into custody Thursday […]
A man was convicted Tuesday in a DUI crash that killed a grandmother and her grandchild in Ventura County. On Tuesday, Jacob Anthony Caliboso, 25, of Oxnard, was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder for the deaths of Elva Andrade, 55, and Nevaeh Gomez, 7. On June 22, 2020, Caliboso was “high on Xanax […]
The application for the 328-unit Ventura Ranch Housing Project on an 82.9-acre unincorporated site north of Ventura was deemed complete as of Wednesday, moving it forward in a lengthy approval process. The project at 4884 N. Ventura Ave. would construct a complex with 18 three-story residential buildings consisting of one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments for […]