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Law and Disorder 10-15

David Abraham, a licensed life insurance agent and former employee of Brown & Brown Insurance, will start serving a 90-day jail sentence on 10/16, after having pled guilty to a felony count of grand theft with a special allegation that he took more than $1 million.

Environment 10-15

Wet weather returned in a big way to Santa Barbara County this week as the season’s first real rain hit the South Coast on 10/13.

County 10-15

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors once again takes on the volatile Naples debate at a meeting on 10/20.

Throw Away Key

I am writing in regard to the pending sentencing of Cathy Latou for embezzling more than half a million dollars from the Santa Barbara Olive Co.

Svante Nilson

Since 2007, Svante Nilson has been designing adverts at The Independent, but this week, his work can also be found on the paper’s cover and throughout the book, since he created this year’s Best Of logo.

Mother in Touch

I’m writing to you from Palos Verdes to let you know how much I enjoy reading your online newspaper.

City Endorsements

The magic number unifying these three essentially housekeeping measures is seven, as in a workably broad number of public representatives on three of the city’s more important advisory commissions.

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