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Starbucks employees’ privacy breached
Starbucks employees could be seeing red soon - and not from the sea of holiday drinks surrounding them. Someone stole a laptop Oct. 29 containing private information about 97,000 Starbucks employees, according to a company news release. Keeping in step with other major companies that have experience a breach this year, Starbucks has informed their employees of the breach and offered them a free year of credit-monitoring services.
Winter shelter to open on time
The Santa Clarita Emergency Winter Shelter will open on schedule Dec. 1, according to shelter officials.
The bell tolls for historical artifact
The Santa Clarita City Council voted 3-2 Tuesday to submit a letter to the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society requesting that a historical bell hanging at Newhall train station be returned to the Saugus Union School District.
Hospital proposal draws crowd
Plans to expand Santa Clarita's only hospital were praised and then attacked at Tuesday's City Council meeting, as the plans returned after a year-long period of revisions.
Locals gear up for ‘Great California Shakeout’
Lee Ryan will drop to the floor right there in the bread aisle of Ralph's if it means bringing attention to earthquake preparedness.
Half a continent away, cops nab SCV suspects
Kansas City cops nabbed one of two men suspected of attempted murder in the Sept. 6 Canyon Country Jack in The Box stabbing, a sheriff's official said.
Man pleads not guilty to I.D. theft
William Schaeffler smiled at a group of family and friends before entering not-guilty pleas for all identity theft charges during his arraignment Tuesday in Santa Clarita Superior Court.
Groups back school bond
The Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Hart District Teachers Association voted to endorse Measure SA, the Hart district's $300 million construction bond on the November ballot.
Man struck, killed by Metrolink train
A Metrolink train struck and killed and 50-year-old male pedestrian in Sylmar Wednesday morning, a Los Angeles Fire Department official said.
Candles light up memories
"It doesn't feel like a whole year's passed," Brittney Falsey said during a candlelight vigil for her cousin Joshua Pipho Monday night at Central Park.
Students hope to solve water woes
A local scholarship program called the High School Water Challenge is not about swimming, diving or even getting wet.
No bullying after Jan. 1
California Assembly Bill 86 will allow school districts to suspend and recommend expulsion for bullies beginning Jan. 1, a Hart District official said.
Reading can be a hair-raising experience
It's happened before - Mint Canyon Elementary School Principal Betsy Letzo has come up with some pretty wild ideas. But none have been as hair-raising as her latest reading-enhancement scheme.
Real estate affiliates party it up
Dozens of Realtors and real estate affiliates put aside gloomy market conditions to celebrate new leadership on Friday in the Hyatt Valencia Grand Ballroom.
Raining gravy
A rainy forecast could bring flash floods and release gravy-like debris flows just in time for Thanksgiving, a weather service official said.
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Pit bull attacks second dog in Sand Canyon
A roaming pit bull that ripped the leg off of a smaller dog in Canyon Country is expected to be humanely killed, a county official said Thursday.
UPDATE: Traffic collision blocks I-5 lanes nearly 3 hours
Two lanes of southbound Interstate 5 near Hasley Canyon Road were closed for almost three hours Thursday afternoon after two big rigs collided, blocking traffic and scattering debris in the area, a California Highway Patrol official said.
UPDATE: Hart district to appoint new board member
Members of the William S. Hart Union High School District board will appoint someone to replace former board member Paul Strickland, rather than holding a special election for the seat.
UPDATE: Fire burns 3,500 acres in Calif. national forest
FRAZIER PARK, Calif. (AP) - Cooler temperatures and lighter winds gave hundreds of firefighters a slight reprieve Thursday from a 3,500-acre wildfire that has blackened rugged terrain in the Los Padres National Forest.
Two Fox bills approved in Assembly
(SACRAMENTO) Assemblymember Steve Fox (D-Palmdale) today announced that Assembly Bills (AB) 588 and 631 were approved by the State Assembly with broad bipartisan support. The bills address protection of student athletes and enhance core education for children in juvenile court schools. Both measures passed by a margin of 70-0, and now advance to the Senate.
Mountain lion stuck in Calif aqueduct tranquilized
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) - Police say a young mountain lion that was trapped in an aqueduct near downtown Santa Cruz has been tranquilized.
UPDATE: Names of victim, suspect released in Acton homicide
Investigators probing a homicide in Acton have released the identities of the man who was shot and killed and the name of his alleged killer.
Acton-Agua Dulce district to vote on Einstein Academy charter tonight
Members of the Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District board will vote tonight on whether to approve two charter petitions that would allow the Albert Einstein Academy for Letters, Arts and Science to open two schools in the district next year.
Boydston challenges chloride data
Santa Clarita City Councilman TimBen Boydston called the whole issue of chloride cleanup a scam Wednesday night after local sanitation officials presented their plan for reducing how much of the salty compound the sanitation district discharges into the Santa Clara River.
Newhall woman faces murder charges in Arizona
A Newhall woman charged with two counts of second-degree murder in connection with a fatal 2011 crash near the Arizona state line that claimed the lives of two children goes on trial in Arizona this week, The Signal has learned.
Reward offered in case of anti-Semitic graffiti
Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of the vandals who defaced HOA complex structures with racist slogans and anti-Semitic symbols at a Saugus HOA.
UPDATE: Blaze blackens 3,000 acres in 5 hours
More than a dozen law enforcement units from three sheriff's stations, including the Santa Clarita Valley's, were sent to the Frazier Park fire late Wednesday afternoon to evacuate the area near the Los Angeles-Kern County line as a massive brush fire moved south toward Los Angeles County, a local sheriff's spokesman said.
UPDATE: SCV: County road work curbs business owners’ traffic
Some owners of about 10 businesses in a strip mall near the Valencia Industrial Center complained Wednesday that county road workers who showed up unexpectedly were blocking customers and cutting into their revenue.
Tour of California racers blast out of SCV
After a night's rest in the Santa Clarita Valley, cyclists competing in the annual Amgen Tour of California left town en mass Wednesday to completed the first half of the eight-day race in Santa Barbara.
Man killed in Acton
Homicide detectives today were investigating the gunshot slaying of a man in Acton, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.
