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CIF football playoffs: Sea Kings’ revenge
Antoine Holmes took the ball on fourth-and-short, cut to his left and with a hole ahead of him, the junior running back lost his footing and wound up flat on his back.
CIF football playoffs: Knights season ends in familiar fashion
Trailing by 20 points at halftime, the deficit proved too big to overcome as Trinity Classical Academy lost to Joshua Springs of Yucca Valley 46-28 Friday at Valencia High in the CIF-Southern Section Division II 8-man semifinals.
Today in the SCV: Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012
Fourth annual Rescues On The Runway boutique 3 p.m. followed by 4 p.m. meet the rescues up for adoption and 6 p.m. dinner and celebrity catwalk and doggie contest. Guest star: Lassie. All proceeds save the lives of animals in the shelters. Hyatt Regency Valencia, 24000 Town Center Drive, Valencia. Seeking donations, vendors and volunteers. Tickets online www.rescuesontherunway.com $35 and $75. Info: 661-252-3232.
Letter: What can be done to help Sandy victims?
Are we doing all we should for the people hit by (Superstorm) Sandy? I know the Red Cross and FEMA are there, but still I wonder.
Local jobless rate up slightly
Local unemployment numbers for October came out Friday - and while the state and county dropped another one-tenth of a percentage point, Santa Clarita's jobless rate ticked up slightly by one-tenth of a percentage point.
Bobby Brown pleads not guilty to DUI in LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A lawyer for Bobby Brown has entered not guilty pleas to drunken driving and other charges faced by the R&B singer after his arrest last month in Los Angeles.
New Mexico coyote hunting contest sparks protests
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The terms of the competition are simple: Hunters in New Mexico have two days this weekend to shoot and kill as many coyotes as they can, and the winners get their choice of a free shotgun or a pair of semi-automatic rifles.
Judge backs Calif. high-speed rail over farmers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A judge has denied a request from Central Valley farmers to temporarily block California's ambitious high-speed rail project.
100 foster kids joining families in LA
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) - More than 100 Southern California foster children celebrated National Adoption Day on Friday by becoming the newest members of several families.
UPDATE: Firefighters douse blaze in Canyon Country apartment
Sheriff's Department arson investigators were looking into an early morning apartment fire in Canyon Country that caused about $70,000 in damage Friday.
California says human trafficking is spreading
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The number of people identified as victims of human trafficking in California has increased steadily since 2010 as the crime has become a growing threat, California Attorney General Kamala Harris reported Friday.
UPDATE: Abandoned SUV found slammed into tree
An SUV was found slammed into a tree on Orchard Village Road in Valencia early Friday, but nobody was with the vehicle when firefighters and law-enforcement officials arrived.
Food donations sought for Single Mothers Outreach
Residents of LARC Ranch and their Aktion Club are conducting a food drive Sunday at the Pavilions in Valencia to benefit Single Mothers Outreach of Santa Clarita.
Judge leaning toward OK of $22.5M fine of Google
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A proposed $22.5 million fine to penalize Google for an alleged privacy breach is on the verge of winning court approval, despite a consumer rights group's cry for tougher punishment.
2 missing, 4 badly burned in Gulf platform fire
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Coast Guard was searching Friday for two workers missing after a fire erupted on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, sending an ominous black plume of smoke into the air reminiscent of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that transformed the oil industry and life along the coast.
Articles By Author - Signal Staff
Nike, Oakley move away from Oscar Pistorius
Two major sponsors, Oakley and Nike, distanced themselves from Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius on Monday after the South African sports star was charged with murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend.
Burger King apologizes after Twitter hacking
Somebody hacked Burger King's Twitter account on Monday, posting obscene messages and changing its profile picture to a McDonald's logo.
Kids' suspensions renew debate over zero tolerance
Waiting in line for the bus, a Pennsylvania kindergartener tells her pals she's going to shoot them with a Hello Kitty toy that makes soap bubbles. In Maryland, a 6-year-old boy pretends his fingers are a gun during a playground game of cops and robbers. In Massachusetts, a 5-year-old boy attending an after-school program makes a gun out of Legos and points it at other students while "simulating the sound of gunfire," as one school official put it.
Pistorius: Thought girlfriend was a robber
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - Oscar Pistorius told a packed courtroom Tuesday that he shot his girlfriend to death by mistake, thinking she was a robber. The prosecutor called it premeditated murder.
'Argo,' 'Zero Dark Thirty' win at Writers Guild
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The CIA thrillers "Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty" have won top screenplay honors from the Writers Guild of America.
Today in the SCV: Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2013. There are 315 days left in the year.
Marriage and the meaning of the word
"Marriage" is shorthand for a specific legal arrangement between a man and a woman, just as "corporation" or "limited partnership" is a specific legal arrangement between shareholders, business partners, etc.
Kevin Buck: Straw men live in glass houses
Webster's dictionary has several different definitions for the word socialism. The one conservative fear and loathe the most is:
Tom Purcell: A nail in the coffin of Americans' rights
oy, do I feel sorry for smokers these days.
Wrong about The Signal
I was annoyed and saddened by a comment demeaning the Signal: "The Signal is biased, ignorant and often inept at reporting news."
HOA still recovering months after paint crime
Vandals who hopped a North Valencia HOA pool fence last summer and dumped seven gallons of paint into the pool and hot tub, causing more than $300,000 damage, are still at large.
Economic conference returns to Santa Clarita
The third annual Santa Clarita Economic and Real Estate Outlook conference is taking place Thursday, Feb. 21 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Hyatt Regency Valencia.
