Group raises $70,000 to help county's foster youth
By Michelle Knight knight@theacorn.com
      Running laps in the hot Florida sun, being hit with a wooden spoon and living with 15 other children in a cramped 1,200squarefoot trailer are vivid childhood memories for Ashley Rhodes-Courter. Most of the 14 foster homes she lived in by the age of 12, however, are a blur of f...
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More animals being spayed, neutered, Humane Society says
      The Humane Society of Ventura County recently released statistics regarding the number of dogs and cats who were spayed or neutered at the shelter's clinic in 2007. Once again, there has been an increase of more than 9 percent in the total number of cats and dogs brought to the shelt...
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Camarillo mud balls
     It was 70 years ago when researchers first discovered thousands of baseball-sized mud balls strewn throughout a field near the south end of Las Posas Road, now just off the 101 Freeway. The result of a devastating flood in March 1938, the mud balls can still be found there today. The balls, ...
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tempered art
By Michelle Knight knight@theacorn.com
      Though it happened 35 years ago, Emily Wood still remembers marveling at the hypnotic web of shattered glass glimmering in the California sun as her father drove past an intersection where a traffic accident had just occurred.
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