Deputies honored for arrests
Ventura County sheriff’s deputies and a crime analyst from Thousand Oaks were honored for their roles in arrests linked to a regional elder abuse financial fraud ring. Analyst Amanda Carr made an identification of two suspects leading to their arrest after more than $130,000 was stolen over two months. The Thousand Oaks bike patrol also Read More →
King
Two massive San Luis Obispo County developments owned by John King have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections, putting on hold a foreclosure auction slated for June 1. King is developing Vaquero de los Robles, a luxury resort near the Paso Robles airport, and Spanish Springs, a development planned near Pismo Beach. The two projects Read More →
News-Press heads into trial with Labor Board
Ampersand Publishing, parent company of the Santa Barbara News-Press, went before a federal labor judge May 26 for what’s expected to be a 20-day trial over charges of bad-faith bargaining with and illegal firing of a union worker. The trial is the second in two years in which attorneys from the National Labor Relations Board Read More →
Universities could take $320 million hit
The results of the May 19 special election are in: Tri-county universities — major engines in the region’s economy — could lose more than $320 million in state funding, while some mental health advocates eked out a small victory. Voters statewide and in the Tri-Counties crushed five of the six propositions designed to prevent a Read More →
CapTech investors speak out
Investors in Camarillo-based CapTech Advisors say they suffered losses that have strained their families and left them upside down on their home mortgages. Lawsuits filed in Ventura County Superior Court claim that investors lost more than $1 million total in a number of projects including a workforce housing development in the Central Valley. Ken Powell, Read More →
Lynda.com founders in finals for E&Y awards
Lynda Weinman wrote the book on graphic design for the Web. “Designing Web Graphics” came out in 1995. The first guide designed for graphic artists instead of programmers, it became a bestseller. With the profits from the book, Weinman and her husband, Bruce Heavin, moved to Ojai, bought their first house and co-founded a business Read More →
