Settlement Possible in Scout Case
Attorneys will meet in a mediation session on March 21.
Barney Brantingham
Recent Stories
Editor Wins, McCaw Loses
News-Press owner ordered to pay Jerry Roberts $900,000 in attorney’s fees.
The DA Who Loved Headlines
The Ararat Illusion is based on the 1973 assassination of two Turkish diplomats at the Santa Barbara Biltmore. Minier prosecuted the killer, Armenian immigrant Gourgen Yanikian.
Car 2GFZ180, Where Are You?
Somewhere, there’s a 1971 Volvo, or maybe just its bones, sitting around rusting.
Court Hears Jerry Roberts Case
News-Press litigation is still wending through the legal system.
What Was Bacara’s Dworman Thinking?
It cost him $220 million to build it, who knows how much to keep it afloat, and he unloaded it for a reported $104 million. But then, he’s still hanging onto those thousand acres across the freeway.
More to Film Fest than Flicks
At Saturday’s writers’ panel, Tate Taylor, who hails from Jackson, Mississippi, where The Help is set, told how 60 literary agents rejected Kathryn Stockett’s novel of the same name. “The idiots!” snorted Taylor.
My Breakfast with the Filmmakers
Meeting directors, actors, and more at the annual SBIFF morning media gathering.
First Night at the Film Fest
UPDATE: Medgar Evers’s widow Myrlie Evers-Williams to present to Viola Davis.
When Abortion Was Illegal
Her stern father, from an old-world family, would have disowned her and possibly beaten the hell out of her. The man who got her pregnant, well-known in the community, couldn’t marry her for numerous reasons.
