Archive By Author - Signal Staff
Prosecutors crack down on mortgage scam artists
As state and federal prosecutors took aim Wednesday at sham mortgage brokers, one local real estate authority urged homeowners to be cautious.
Lynne Plambeck: The new ‘ethical eating’ movement
Every Sunday morning and Thursday afternoon our city hosts a real farmers market. Visiting the market in Newhall has become an enjoyable Thursday afternoon ritual for me.
Tony Strickland: The state of California is swimming in waste
As the May 19 special election made clear, Californians are fed up with the budget shenanigans in Sacramento.
All Americans need health care
All American citizens need health care and need the same health care our Congress has. We pay for it through taxes. It is good enough for them. Why not us? Again - all American citizens.
Political divide
"Don't think, feel/ain't no big deal/just make it real/and don't think, feel."
Marriage for man and woman
First, I want to thank The Signal for printing my opinion column "Humans at fault" (Opinion, June 23).
Government’s no. 1 job
In Gary Horton's column, "The health care line has been crossed" (Opinion, July 8), he refers to "important goods and services."
Sweet sounds of songs past at SCV Senior Center
It was something out of the early 20th Century at the Santa Clarita Valley Senior Center on July 5.
University Center coming along at COC
Workers build on various parts of the Dr. Dianne G. Van Hook University Center at College of the Canyons on Monday afternoon. COC's fall session classes is scheduled to begin August 24.
Free tickets for 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' to volunteers
The Santa Clarita Regional Theatre is offering free seats (unless the show is sold out) to their production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" to all volunteers who work the concession booth.
Terrorists call 'Bruno' a conspiracy
JERUSALEM -- The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the terrorist group depicted in the film "Bruno," is "very upset" their group's namesake and former member was featured in a film about a homosexual character that includes graphic depictions of homosexual sex.
Castaic man busted for pot cultivation
In response to an anonymous tip alleging that marijuana was being grown and sold at a Violin Canyon apartment, Narcotics Detectives began an investigation over a month ago.
What's good in education, July 15, 2009
Sophomore Accepted into Summer Scholars Program Saugus High School sophomore Michael Howard has been accepted into the prestigious Summer Scholars program at the University of Norte Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana. Summer Scholars students will spend their time on Notre Dame's campus participating in an intensive two-week course of study. This summer, 14 academic tracks are being offered with approximately 20 students admitted to each of the tracks. Howard plans on becoming an engineer. Golden ...
La Salsa opens new SCV location
La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill celebrated the grand opening of its newest location, at 26906 The Old Road in Valencia, on Friday.
Senior Center offers free lectures and clinics in August
On Wednesday, Aug. 5, Financial advisor Joseph Santos discusses "Obama-nomics & the Current Economy" from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Activity Rooms 1 & 2 of the SCV Senior Center, 22900 Market St., Newhall 91321.
Articles By Author - Signal Staff
Maserati driver in Vegas shooting-crash was rapper
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police searched Friday for a Range Rover with dark tinted windows and custom rims that set off a fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip when someone in the luxury SUV opened fire on a Maserati driven by an aspiring rapper.
Valencia crime report: 10 residential burglaries reported last week
Valencia, Zone 5, Public Safety and Crime Prevention Information. Snapshot for 02/11/2013 through 02/17/2013.
Arrests: Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station, Feb. 22, 2013
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Prosecutor questions woman in Arizona murder case
PHOENIX (AP) - A woman charged in the stabbing and shooting death of her Arizona lover traded barbs with a prosecutor under a withering cross-examination as she struggled to explain why she can recall precise details of her life from years earlier, yet can't remember crucial aspects of the murder case against her.
Car bomb kills at least 53 in Syrian capital
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - A car bomb exploded Thursday near Syria's ruling party headquarters in Damascus, killing at least 53 people and scattering mangled bodies among the blazing wreckage in one of the bloodiest days in the capital since the uprising began almost two years ago.
Haiti's 'Baby Doc' summoned to court after no-show
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A Haitian judge on Thursday summoned Jean-Claude Duvalier to appear in court after the former dictator defied an order to attend a hearing to determine whether he should again face charges for human rights abuses committed during the nearly 15 years of his brutal regime.
Oscar guy MacFarlane aims to perk up stodgy awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) - You think the Academy Awards are boring? Try the nominations. They only last a few minutes, but it's generally a sleepy academy suit and a sleepy starlet droning a list of names at 5:30 in the morning.
Georgia plane aborted landing, hit utility pole
THOMSON, Ga. (AP) - A small private jet carrying a surgeon and members of his clinic staff aborted its landing at a Georgia airport before it hit a 60-foot utility pole and crashed in a flaming wreck, killing five people onboard and injuring two, federal authorities said Thursday.
Pistorius granted bail pending murder trial
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - In an agonizingly slow announcement, a magistrate allowed Oscar Pistorius to go free on bail Friday, nine days after the Paralympian was arrested in the Valentine's Day killing of his girlfriend.
Police: Hotel altercation sparked Vegas shooting
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Bullets were flying from a black Range Rover at a gray Maserati as the vehicles raced toward a red light on the Las Vegas Strip.
4 stabbed outside downtown LA nightspot
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Four young adults have been stabbed after a feud spilled out of a downtown Los Angeles nightspot.
More tests needed in LA hotel water tank death
LOS ANGELES (AP) - More testing must be done to determine the cause of death of a 21-year-old Canadian tourist whose body was found wedged in a water tank atop a downtown Los Angeles hotel, authorities said Thursday.
Letters: A socialist by any other name is... a socialist
Leftists of late have become very defensive about being called socialist in their ideology, as typified by Kevin Buck's column (Feb. 19, "Straw men live in glass houses").
Alice Khosravy: California is at bottom for business
Just a few short days ago the lanterns fell, bringing an end to Chinese New Year season for 2013.
