Jane Laut - Out on Bail - Back in Court, Briefly

At 11:30 PM, just hours after Superior Court Judge Nancy Ayers, lowered the $3 Million bail to $1 Million, Jane Laut met the bail and was released in the early morning hours from the Ventura County Jail, where...

Jane Laut Judge Drops Bail To $1 Million New Details Released

In a packed court room, Ventura County Superior Court Judge Nancy Ayers, listened to arguments from both sides of the case, for murder suspect Jane Laut. In the request from Ron Bamieh, to drop the $3Million dollar...

Foreclosure Time is Party Time!

Kids sure do love abandoned houses, no matter what the reason for their abandonment. So here's a word to the wise: if you're forced to foreclose on your mansion and move outta town, be warned that a "presumably...

Ex-Marine convicted of using drugs and force to have sex

"LOS ANGELES - Following a three-week trial, a federal jury today convicted on seven felony counts a retired Marine Corps captain who traveled to Cambodia for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors.Michael Joseph Pepe, 54, a resident of Oxnard, faces up...

Record Number Of Schools Observe Day Of Silence

This year's 'day of silence,' in which high school students across teh country refrain from speaking to protest harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students, attracted a record number of...

Activists Alarmed, Demand Better Protection for Gay Youth

"Like the killings of some other gay students - such as Matthew Shepard in Wyoming, and Brandon Teena, the Nebraska transsexual whose story was the subject of the movie "Boys Don't Cry" - King's death has drawn...

Pacific Coast Motorsports Hangs A Shingle :: The EDJE

"Yesterday, Tyler Tadevic, President and Team Director of Pacific Coast Motorsports issued an open statement posted at the PCM website. A New Direction PCM Update March 24 Due to the sudden demise of the Champ...

Boy’s Killing, Labeled a Hate Crime, Stuns a Town

"Hundreds of mourners gathered at a church here on Friday to remember an eighth-grade boy who was shot to death inside a junior high school computer lab by a fellow student in what prosecutors are calling a hate crime."

Brain Dead, Another Child Dies at the Hands of School Violence

"NEW YORK, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ten years after Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered because of his sexual orientation, a 15-year-old gay California student is brain dead...

15 yr old boy declared brain dead after school shooting

An unfortuante development in what is already a very sad story:"A 15-year-old shot by a fellow student at his junior high school has been declared brain dead, and his body is being maintained on a ventilator for possible organ donation, according to the medical examiner's...

8th grader shoots another student inside California classroom

" OXNARD (KABC) -- An 8th-grade student at E.O. Green Junior High School was shot in the head by another 8th grader inside a classroom around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. The 15-year-old victim was transported to St....

Christmas Eve wake up call!

At midnight on Christmas Eve neighbors woke up to a blaze in their carport at the 1600 block of 5th Street in Oxnard, CA.  The fire destroyed 8 cars and the heat damaged 8 others in the adjacent...

detects cocaine in blood or saliva

A whole class of biosensors can be based on this concept. This is not specific to cocaine. This is a method of detecting small molecules and proteins.

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from