El Rio News

Here's hoping you had a decent holiday. Loquat I'm currently tweaking on my gluttonous overindulgence and the sugar rush from the second helping of dessert.

Casting aside the crowd pleasers, you gotta love the substantial overview of Bill Viola, the walloping whaling ship mania of Matthew Barney and the psychedelic mind games of Olafur Eliasson.

Customers of Harrison Industries who have their regular trash, recycling or green-waste pickup on Thursday or Friday will have it delayed one day this week because of Thanksgiving.

James Kirkland hugs his mother Tammy Kirkland of Simi Valley as she signs his adoption papers Friday during the public adoption day in Ventura County Superior Court at the Juvenile Courthouse in El Rio.

Ventura County officials will go over the next phase of the plan to convert 1,300 homes in the El Rio area from septic systems to a sewer line at a community meeting tonight.

Ventura had six violent incidents Halloween night, one of them gang-related and one police suspect was gang-related. Two took place at or near large Halloween parties.

Death Valley High , Friday @ Annie's Social Club. $7. 9 p.m. A great line-up tonight at Annie's features Perfect Machines , Killola and Pinky Swear .

Joey Hernandez, 21, of the 1400 block of Amber Court, 5:14 p.m. Friday, at Wal-Mart, 7150 Camino Arroyo.

Jose Cuervo Sosa, a drug counselor for Alternative Action Programs, studies to become a state-certified counselor.

California Highway Patrol Officer Frank Parmo guards a closed section of Central Avenue on Monday after reports of shots fired at the Juvenile Justice Center in El Rio.

Police late Thursday night arrested a man suspected of attacking and attempting to sexual assault a woman during a burglary in her Oxnard home that morning, authorities said.

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Ventura County sheriff's deputies were searching for a suspect who shot at a juvenile courthouse Monday.

By From staff reports Originally published 10:10 a.m., October 19, 2009 Updated 10:10 a.m., October 19, 2009 The Ventura County Sheriff's Department this morning is searching near the Juvenile Justice Center in El Rio for a person who fired shots in the area, including one into a window of the facility, authorities said.

The Oxnard City Council approved a move Tuesday night to give voters a chance to decide whether to redraw the city limits and open the possibility of building 2,500 homes at Jones Ranch, a 160-acre area of strawberry fields to the north of the city.

Investigators with the Ventura County Sheriff's Department arrested four people on Wednesday in connection with methamphetamine, including a Santa Paula man, Michael Chavez, suspected of selling the drug.

A Ventura County school superintendent has been accused of shoplifting at a local department store.

One Bay Area bar has figured out how to convince people it is a community center.

In celebrating Discardia this time I was going through some old boxes, finding things that can be discarded and re-discovering things that are important and which should never have been buried in a box.

By From staff reports Originally published 10:51 a.m., October 2, 2009 Updated 10:51 a.m., October 2, 2009 An Oxnard teen who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a shooting incident at an El Rio school was sentenced this week to six years in prison, the Ventura County Sheriff's Department reported.