A 3,000-year-old burial site in Vanuatu containing 60 headless skeletons and skulls in pots is helping end the mystery over colonization of the Pacific and the first Polynesians, archaeologists said (more…)
October 2007
Monthly Archive
Tue 30 Oct 2007
3,000-year-old Vanuatu burial site sheds light on Pacific colonization
Posted by admin under World News , History No CommentsTue 30 Oct 2007
Bill Shakespeare: The Macbeths Eye the California Primary
Posted by admin under Politics , National No Comments(Note to reader: I have finally figured out why I was destined to own the initials “BS.” It turns out that it is the perfect byline for covering the 2008 presidential election. And nowhere is there more of this – more of “BS” – than in the current presidential (more…)
Tue 30 Oct 2007
Please join Cameron Smyth Assemblyman, 38th District for “Politics & Pancakes”. The Assemblyman will provide an update from Sacramento as well as important information on Water Bonds and Healthcare. (more…)
Tue 30 Oct 2007
Help Improve the Quality of Life in SCV; Town Center Expansion on City Council Agenda Tonight
Posted by admin under Original Site , City of Santa Clarita , Development , Local No CommentsTonight, October 30th, at 7:00 p.m., the Santa Clarita City Council will, once again, have the expansion of the (more…)
Tue 30 Oct 2007
Last week was an amazing week in Southern California. With an unprecedented number of fires breaking out in the region and locally in the Santa Clarita Valley, we at the West Ranch Beacon kicked it into high gear in order to keep the coverage as timely and relevant as humanly possible. It has been abundantly (more…)
Tue 30 Oct 2007
Eyes on Supreme Court in Execution Case Tuesday
Posted by admin under Crime , Law/ Courts No CommentsBy 6 p.m. Tuesday, when a Mississippi inmate is scheduled to die by lethal injection, the Supreme Court may give the clearest indication so far of whether it intends to call a halt to all such executions while a case from Kentucky (more…)
Tue 30 Oct 2007
ExxonMobil on Monday won the chance to persuade the US Supreme Court that it should not have to pay $2.5bn in punitive damages to victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, the largest such award in (more…)
Tue 30 Oct 2007
They discovered the corpse in the tidy backyard of a home near the corner of Washington and C streets. The dreaded threat. A farm community’s worst nightmare. A Medfly . On an otherwise peaceful weekday in early (more…)
Mon 29 Oct 2007
The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station held the annual Haunted Jailhouse and Halloween Carnival Sunday. More than 3,500 Santa Clarita Valley residents stopped by the station and joined in the (more…)
Mon 29 Oct 2007
Crime Update: Man Arrested After Gas Station Fire in Newhall; Suspect Surrenders in Canyon Country
Posted by admin under Crime , Local , Canyon Country , Sheriff , Newhall No CommentsDeputies arrested a suspected drunk driver Saturday night in the 22900 block of Lyons Avenue. The man reportedly caused a small fire when he backed his car into a gas (more…)
Mon 29 Oct 2007
Mental Health Clinicians to Provide much needed Assistance to Wildfire Victims and First Responders
Posted by admin under County of LA , Health No CommentsLos Angeles County Department of Mental Health (DMH) Emergency Outreach Bureau and Service Areas will be one of the Federal, State, County and local agencies represented at the Local Assistance (more…)
Mon 29 Oct 2007
The pretty lace bra, a seemingly simple undergarment, took a good 100 years to perfect. “You’d be surprised how much engineering really goes into a bra; they really are a piece of technology, like a suspension bridge,” says writer (more…)
