Deputies Nab Sex Offender
A 54-year-old man was questioned and released near the school, then arrested at his home after deputies discovered he was a registered sex offender.
Year: 2007
Feds File News-Press Complaint
The NLRB sets a hearing date, Tom Jacobs moves on to greener pastures, and Barry Cappello responds to Barney’s NP article.
County Investigates Misconduct Claims Against Brown
An outside investigator has been hired to look into the matter.
Arrest in Santa Barbara Stabbing
The attack was apparently gang-related.
Once in a Blue Moon
Tonight marks the second full moon in the month of May.
City Looking Over Inclusionary Housing Ordinance
A Housing Policy Steering Committee reently voted to recommend changes to the current affordable housing ordinances. The city council will look over this and other recommendations in the upcoming weeks.
Ka-blam! Cannon Returns Fire at the SB News-Press
Lou Cannon responds to a Wendy McCaw-penned editorial that ran in Sunday’s paper.
Caught on Camera
Interrupted by an intoxicated heckler during an outdoor on-camera interview about homeless issues, Santa Barbara Police Lt. Paul McCaffrey wrestled the heckler to the ground and handcuffed him, allegedly fracturing the man’s elbow in the process. The KSBY news crew who had been interviewing McCaffrey caught most of the incident, which occurred on May 22, on camera, broadcasting it on the station’s Web site under the heading “Raw Video: Santa Barbara Transient Arrest.” (Photo courtesy KSBY Action News)
Capps Votes No
Just days before flying back to the district to observe Memorial Day, Santa Barbara Congressmember Lois Capps (D) voted against a $120-billion war spending bill, $95 billion of which will actually be used to sustain U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan through September 30. Despite Capps’s opposition, the bill passed the House-as well as the Senate-by overwhelming margins late last Thursday and Friday.
Immigration Raid Challenged
Although federal Homeland Security agents came into the apartment searching for her Iranian roommate, a UCSB student was taken into custody on Wednesday, May 23 for alleged violations of immigration law-a murky situation further muddled this week by claims of improper procedure.
