‘Bleak House’ Case over Jail Overcrowding Settles After 45 Years Courts & Crime By Nick Welsh Defense attorney Bob Sanger sees some improvements, but much remains to do.
Woman Accused of Conning Elderly Santa Barbara Scientist Out of Her Home, Cars, and $3 Million in Assets Courts & Crime By Tyler Hayden Inna Vladimirovna Cook faces eight felony counts of theft, fraud, and money laundering, plus a civil lawsuit.
City of Santa Barbara Gets Judge Off Lawsuit with Harbor Restaurant Courts & Crime By Nick Welsh Judge Colleen Sterne has been bumped from the Harbor Restaurant’s case, brought by John Thyne III and his partners, to “reform” their lease at the Stearns Wharf property.
Oxnard Woman Sentenced to Prison Two Years After Fatal Highway 101 Crash in Montecito Courts & Crime By Ella Heydenfeldt
Santa Barbara Judge Keeps Sable Injunction in Place as Company Confirms No Oil in Pipelines Courts & Crime By Ella Heydenfeldt
Ashlee Buzzard Appears in Lompoc Court After Pleading Not Guilty to Daughter Melodee’s Murder Courts & Crime By Christina McDermott & Jackson Friedman
Santa Barbara County Supervisors Weigh Legal Options to Stop or Slow Down Restart of Sable Offshore’s Oil Pipeline Energy By Nick Welsh
California Schools Will Have to Do More to Prevent Sex Abuse Under New Law Education By Carolyn Jones, CalMatters
California Is Banning Masks for Federal Agents. Here’s Why It Could Lose in Court Immigration By Nigel Duara, CalMatters
Ashlee Buzzard Pleads Not Guilty at Arraignment Announcement By Office of the Santa Barbara County District Attorney
Santa Barbara Law Enforcement Arrests Ashlee Buzzard For First Degree Murder in Daughter Melodee’s Death Courts & Crime By Christina McDermott
Body of Missing Vandenberg Village Girl Melodee Buzzard, 9, Recovered and Mother Arrested Courts & Crime By Christina McDermott