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Central Park scores itself a new board
The city of Santa Clarita installed the first softball scoreboard at Central Park on Championship Field No. 2.
School: Give us back that bell
A local school district that gave up its historic school bell 30 years ago now wants it back. The bronze bell, first hung at Saugus Elementary School in 1908, now graces the Jan Heidt Metrolink Station in Newhall. But the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society is reluctant to part with it. City Council members voted 3-2 this week to submit a letter to the society requesting that the historical bell be returned to the Saugus ...
Dixon patients get 60 birds
Samuel Dixon Family Health Centers Inc. is one of six charitable organizations in the Santa Clarita Valley that received a turkey donation from Operation Gobble, a longtime program offered by Valencia Water Company.
UPDATED: City invokes use of eminent domain
The Santa Clarita City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to initiate eminent domain in order to obtain the last parcel needed for the new Newhall library, despite objections from the property owner.
Former Valencia resident sues Disney
Doctors performed several facial surgeries on 5-year-old Lena Dickerson after a dog named Hemmingway mauled her face when she was only two at a Disneyland petting zoo, her attorney said.
UPDATED EXCLUSIVE: Alamo arrested by FBI en route to Santa Clarita
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested church evangelist Bernie Hoffman, aka Tony Alamo, in Flagstaff, Ariz. at approximately 2:45 p.m. Central time, according to an FBI official.
Dems host debate watching party
The Democratic Club of the Santa Clarita Valley hosts its first televised presidential Debate Watch Party of the 2008 campaign on Friday at Lamppost Pizza Parlor on Bouquet Canyon Road.
COC’s job fair attendance up
The fall 2008 Job & Career Fair presented by College of the Canyons and The Signal on Wednesday was one of the most well attended fairs in the past few years, according to the Career Services Center.
Council opts to revisit hospital expansion
Santa Clarita City Council members voted this week to revisit Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital's controversial expansion plans at a special council meeting Nov.19.
Metrolink train hits, kills man
A Metrolink train struck and killed and 50-year-old male pedestrian in Sylmar Wednesday morning, a Los Angeles Fire Department official said.
Theater fight case in court
A movie theater employee who beat a co-worker with a fire extinguisher is scheduled to go to court today, a sheriff's official said.
Local Alamo church raided
FBI agents, sheriff's deputies and county protective services agents stormed the Alamo Ministeries of Saugus compound at 1:30 a.m. Sunday, according to a sheriff's report.
Barriers infuriate drivers
Tracy Hild found a cement wall in the middle road as she drove her kids home from Bouquet Canyon Elementary School on Wednesday.
Water retailer finds a 'hole new way to work
A local water retailer plans to make potholes, not fix them. And it's going to spend close to $50,000 for a special pothole-making machine. The good news is that the potholes promise to save Santa Clarita Valley residents thousands of dollars. "Normally, we'd have a crew of about five, roping off an area, bringing in a backhoe and digging a large hole to find a pipe, and that takes a lot of time," said Stephen ...
Bird's the word for Scouts
More than 100 local families will have a turkey on their dinner table for Thanksgiving courtesy of a hefty donation from a local Girl Scouts troop.
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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.
Canyon Country West Crime Report: Deputies investigate knife assault
Snapshot for the week of 05/06/2013 to 05/12/2013
Saugus Crime Report: Deputies investigate robbery
Good morning Saugus. I hope that the traffic congestion due to the Amgen Tour did not disrupt your travels too much yesterday. The Amgen Tour is a great event which brings a new experience and revenue to Santa Clarita.
Magnitude-4 quake recorded near Rancho Palos Verdes
Federal earthquake monitors reported an earthquake six miles south of Rancho Palos Verdes today at 1 p.m.
