BRIEFLY UNEMPLOYMENT RISES TO 6 PERCENT.VENTURA - The unemployment rate in Ventura County jumped to 6 percent in July, up from 4.5 percent in June, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday. Cuts in farm production and other agriculture-related employment were blamed for the loss of 5,900 jobs, leaving 268,400 people in the county employed in July. A drop in educational payrolls during the summer recess was also a factor. Ventura County farm employment dropped by 4,300 jobs from the June level. There also was a loss of 100 service jobs, 300 manufacturing jobs and 400 construction jobs, as well as a seasonal loss of 1,800 education jobs. The transportation, public utilities and trade industries each rose by 100 jobs in July. Total employment was up by 5,600 jobs in July from the number in July 1999. The majority of the gain - 4,700 - was in nonfarm jobs. - Daily News Witness stabbed by Peeping Tom Peeping Tom stricken blind for peeping as the naked Lady Godiva rode by. [Br. Legend: Brewer Dictionary] See : Blindness Peeping Tom struck blind for peeping at Lady Godiva. [Br. AGOURA HILLS - A man was stabbed on an Agoura Hills street when he confronted a Peeping Tom, authorities said Friday. The 27-year-old victim was found in the 30700 block of Passageway Place about 11:40 p.m. Thursday, said sheriff's Deputy Wayne Encinas Encinas is a municipality located in the province of Segovia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 68 inhabitants. . The victim said he was putting a cover on his car when he saw and then confronted a man peeping into a neighbor's window, Encinas said. The victim, stabbed in the lower side, was hospitalized with stable vital signs at Los Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
The wounded man could give no description of the assailant except that he was white or Latino and about 5 feet 10. - City News Service Murder suspect set for trial VENTURA - Criminal proceedings were reinstated for murder suspect Mikhail Khaimchayev on Friday, a month after doctors released him from Patton State Hospital History Patton State Hospital is located located in San Bernardino county, California. First opened in 1893, it was renamed Patton State Hospital after Harry Patton in 1927. Patton opened in 1893, as a state run, public sector forensic hospital. and declared him competent to stand trial. Judge Art Gutierrez ordered the 30-year-old Russian immigrant, who remains in jail in lieu of $500,000 bail, to appear Aug. 29 at a hearing where Deputy Public Defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was Howard Asher could contest the diagnosis. Khaimchayev was arrested in 1999 on suspicion of storming into the Camarillo-based Postal Innovations software company and fatally shooting its co-owner, Sheldon Snyder, 36, before firing a bullet into his own stomach. - Daily News Save salamander salamander, an amphibian of the order Urodela, or Caudata. Salamanders have tails and small, weak limbs; superficially they resemble the unrelated lizards (which are reptiles), but they are easily distinguished by their lack of scales and claws, and by their moist, , road signs urge BUELLTON - The California Department of Transportation The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is a government agency in the U.S. state of California. Its mission is to improve mobility across the state. It manages the state highway system and is actively involved with public transportation systems in California. has put up signs on Highway 246 warning road crews that no pesticides are allowed near ponds where the endangered California tiger salamander The California Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma californiense) is an endangered amphibian native to Northern California. Previously considered to be a Tiger Salamander subspecies, the California was recently designated a separate species. breeds. The tiger salamander in Santa Barbara County was declared an endangered species endangered species, any plant or animal species whose ability to survive and reproduce has been jeopardized by human activities. In 1999 the U.S. government, in accordance with the U.S. this year by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Caltrans also is hoping to divert the amphibians amphibians members of the animal class Amphibia. Includes frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and cecilians all capable of living on land or in water. into drains under the highway so they will not be killed on it during their annual rush to the ponds - a ritual that occurs on a stormy night sometime during the rainy season. Tiger salamanders spend most of their lives in squirrel and gopher burrows in the hills around breeding ponds. ``We're trying to keep them off the road altogether,'' Caltrans spokesman Brian Murnahan said. - Associated Press Firefighters get giant helicopter SANTA BARBARA - The U.S. Forest Service has added a giant helicopter to its arsenal for fighting fires. The Eurocopter AS-332L Super Puma helicopter can carry 20 firefighters to remote areas and bombard bom·bard tr.v. bom·bard·ed, bom·bard·ing, bom·bards 1. To attack with bombs, shells, or missiles. 2. To assail persistently, as with requests. See Synonyms at attack, barrage2. 3. flames with 1,500 gallons of water. It is based at the Forest Service Air Attack Base at Santa Barbara Municipal Airport. The helicopter is one of four deployed in California this week. They were obtained through special funding provided by Congress to respond to the fire danger nationwide. Firefighters, being trained on loading the aircraft and stowing gear, will be battle-ready in the helicopter this weekend. - Associated Press 'Strikes' dropped in fatal shooting VENTURA - The judge in a potential ``three strikes, you're out'' case has sentenced an Oxnard man to three years in prison for killing his brother in a shooting accident. Deputy District Attorney Richard Simon had sought a sentence of 25 years to life for Magdaleno O'Campo, 36, because he was an ex-felon, convicted of robbery in 1984, with no legal right to handle the gun that killed his brother, Mario, 41, on Sept. 12, 1999, at their home. Superior Court Judge Ken Riley removed two ``strikes'' from O'Campo's record to make way for the lighter sentence. ``The loss of your brother must have been very heart-wrenching for you and your family,'' Riley told the defendant. Deputy Public Defender Christina Briles asked the judge to sentence her client to probation because of the crime's circumstances and because O'Campo already has served about seven months in jail. The brothers were playing with a gun they thought was empty when the remaining bullet discharged into Mario O'Campo's abdomen. - Associated Press Tractor flips over, kills ranch worker THOUSAND OAKS - A worker on a Thousand Oaks ranch was killed Friday when the tractor he was driving overturned, officials said. The man, whose name was not immediately released, was found at 3:30 p.m., trapped under the tractor on the Curb Ranch, in the 1400 block of Hidden Valley Road. It was unclear whether he was still alive when he was found by the person who called 911, Ventura County Fire Department Not to be confused with Ventura Fire Department. The Ventura County Fire Department (VCFD) provides fire protection and emergency response services for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, and for six other cities within the county. spokeswoman Sandi Wells said. However, he was dead by the time firefighters arrived. Wells said the Ventura County Sheriff's Department The Ventura County Sheriff's Department (VCSD) provides law enforcement for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, USA, as well as several cities within the county. The cities that VCSD serves are Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, and Thousand Oaks. , California Highway Patrol, Ventura County Medical Examiner and California Occupational Safety and Health Administration The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) enforces the U.S. state of California's occupational and public safety laws and provides information and consultative assistance to employers, workers, and the public regarding workplace safety and health responded to the accident. - Daily News |
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