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UPDATED: Groups organize protests for Brown’s visit
UPDATE, Thursday 1 p.m.: Protesters lined up across the street from Hart High School as Gov. Jerry Brown began a private meeting with local officials at the school's auditorium. Thedemonstrators protested California's fiscal situation, rises in property taxes, Brown's relationship with unions, and the inability of the public to visit with Brown inside the school. See image in the media player, and check back later this afternoon for an update on Brown's visit. Original story, ...
Detectives still seek victims in bathroom videotaping
Investigators are trying to identify several children who were videotaped by a Canyon Country man arrested last month after allegedly taping a 12-year-old boy inside a College of the Canyons bathroom.
Boy allegedly hid drugs for mom
A suspected drug dealer and mother of four children was arrested in Canyon Country after deputies found she allegedly had hidden six bags of heroin inside her 14-year-old son's pants, authorities said Tuesday.
Community mourns teen’s death
Several grief counselors and psychologists were sent to Vasquez High School on Monday to console friends of a 15-year-old student who was struck and killed by a car on Highway 14 early Sunday, district officials said.
Unemployment rate improves despite loss of local stores
Santa Clarita employers shed about 400 jobs in March, due in part to the closure of large book and video stores, officials said Friday.
Deputy: Valencia 'asked me to shoot him'
SAN FERNANDO - The alleged drunken driver accused of striking and killing a bicyclist with his truck in July 2009 pleaded with deputies to shoot him after he was arrested at gunpoint 15 miles north of the fatal crash on Bouquet Canyon Road, a deputy testified in a San Fernando courtroom Friday.
DUI checkpoint nets three arrests
Three drivers were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Thursday night during a DUI checkpoint in Santa Clarita.
Bicyclists testify in murder trial
SAN FERNANDO - Members of the bicycle group who were struck by an alleged drunken driver in July 2009 testified about the gruesome collision Thursday, and described the twists of fate that brought them there that day.
Valencia trial under way
SAN FERNANDO - The man accused of murder for a July 2009 drunken-driving crash that left a bicyclist dead and several others injured had run several motorists off the road and swerved in and out of oncoming traffic moments before the fatal crash, witnesses testified in San Fernando Superior Court on Wednesday.
Community service stays in the valley
A Santa Clarita-based nonprofit group is now handling community-service programs ordered at Newhall Superior Court, officials said Tuesday.
Rap producer sued for assault
A lawyer representing the woman who claims she was raped by a music producer in his Newhall home in January said Monday that several women have claimed similar sexual assaults in other states since a civil lawsuit was filed earlier this month.
UPDATED: Man in jail after high-speed pursuit
A Valencia man was in jail Monday after a high-speed pursuit Saturday, during which he allegedly dragged a California Highway Patrol officer with a rented truck in Newhall, according to CHP officials.
Political lines that define
When lawmakers last drew new district lines after the 2000 Census, they divided the Santa Clarita Valley between two state Senate districts, confusing voters - as evidenced by the recent state Senate special election - and weakening SCV residents' influence in Sacramento.
Two arrested for alleged involvement in baseball bat beating
Detectives arrested two Canyon Country men suspected of beating a mother and her son with a pair of baseball bats near an apartment complex on Soledad Canyon Road earlier this week, authorities said Thursday.
UPDATED: Newhall auto shop robbed at gunpoint
UPDATED 1 p.m. Friday: Editor's note: In the original post of this story, the suspects were described as black. The updated story that replaced the initial post did not include race in the description. This further update restores that information to the story. We have also removed a couple of racist comments from the comments thread. See Executive Editor Lila Littlejohn's note at the bottom of the story. Authorities were searching Thursday for two men ...
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