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Winners of the 2012 Spring Beautification program were recognized on Monday, May 21 at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

The latest round of international climate change talks finished on Friday in discord and disappointment, with some participants concerned that important progress made last year was being unpicked.

It used to be that strip clubs were merely blamed for society's ills. Now they're actually being charged for it.

Starting Monday, more than 7,000 high school seniors in the Kern High School District, and hundreds more throughout Kern County, will start a new chapter in their young lives when they are handed high school diplomas.

Children are usually the primary complainers about Sunday school, but when Mudita Bahadur started looking for excuses not to take her children to the Hindu temple on Sunday, she knew she had to make a change.

A walk through the half-finished construction project on Lagoon Road on the UC Santa Barbara campus underscores the fact that creating successful public-private partnerships in a post-recession world is a tough job indeed.

In an ancient tomb in China's Hubei Province, archeologists discovered a basket of medical, mathematical, and legal texts that date back to the late third and early second centuries B.C. A historian at UC Santa Barbara is working to translate and interpret the legal texts, of which there are two, and describes them as "a gold mine of social and ... (more)

Special to Dixon Patch What better way to help advance the status of young women than by providing a caring touch- a helping hand-- as they move forward to achieve higher education and future career goals.

San Bernardino, CA A - Congressman Joe Baca hosted his annual Education Summit, at California State University San Bernardino.A The theme of this year's conference wasA "The California and National Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities in Special Education."A A At the summit, parents, educators, public officials, and business and community ... (more)

Investigating indigenous Amazonian or African peoples who still follow a hunter-gatherer or forager-horticulturist lifestyle is giving new insights into how diet and lifestyle affect the heart as humans age. Two new studies found that these types of hunter-gatherer or foraging peoples have lower increases in blood pressure related to their age and are less likely to have hardening of the arteries than people with more modern lifestyles.

Girls Inc. of Carpinteria has partnered with the Early Academic Outreach Program at UC Santa Barbara to launch "Eureka!" from June 18- July 13.

A traveling display titled "Israel Matters" will be set up at U.C. Santa Cruz for several hours on Tuesday, May 29.

Levi Maaia, Anacapa School's digital media teacher and faculty adviser to its near space exploration club, is in Washington, D.C., this week for the F2C: Freedom to Connect conference.

Academy Award -winning actor and producer and UC Santa Barbara alumnus Michael Douglas has contributed $500,000 to establish an endowed chair for the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts in the College of Letters and Science .

For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons.

Jack Goins poses with a photo dated to have been taken in 1898 of his step-great-great grandfather George Washington Goins, who died in 1817, left, and great-great grandmother, Susan Minor-Goins who died in 1813 at the Hawkins County Archives Project building Wednesday, May 23, 2012 in Rogersville, Tenn.

Jack Goins poses with a photo dated to have been taken in 1898 of his step-great-great grandfather George Washington Goins, who died in 1817, left, and great-great grandmother, Susan Minor-Goins who died in 1813 at the Hawkins County Archives Project building Wednesday, May 23, 2012 in Rogersville, Tenn.

During her years as a student and standout soccer player at Dunn School, Kelsey Sullivan became close friends with a pair of classmates who shared her passion for the sport.

Four Lake Elsinore Unified School District students are recipients of this year's Lake Elsinore Valley Education Foundation annual scholarship awards.

After an announcement by federal officials approving clinical trials for the drug Crenezumab, researchers searching for a way to treat Alzheimer's Disease are gearing up for a rare study that will allow them to test a therapy for a genetically predestined disease -- before its onset.