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Ventura County saw a spike in overdose deaths in 2020, driven largely by a powerful synthetic opioid, a new report shows. Fatal overdoses reached 217 in 2020, a jump of more than 45% compared to the prior year, according to an annual report from the Ventura County Medical Examiners Office. The tally jumped by 68 since 2019, when 149 fatal cases were reported. The surge in 2020 easily topped annual totals for the past five years. Overdose deaths had previously peaked at 170 in 2018, co...

So why are these a target for thieves? They want whats inside. "Theyre filled with precious metals such as platinum, palladium and rhodium. I believe they melt them down and separate the metals and sell them because theyre worth more than gold," said David Kilbourne, who runs Foreign Carriage Service in Thousand Oaks. Capt. Eric Buschow with the Ventura County Sheriffs Office says two-three man crews are going through neighborhoods to crawl under vehicles in the middle of the night to saw off c...

ORIGINAL STORY: Firefighters responded to a brush fire that broke out in the northeastern part of Thousand Oaks and grew to 250 acres Thursday evening, forcing nearby residents to temporarily evacuate, according to the Ventura County Fire Department. The fire was first reported at 4:54 p.m. in the area of Erbes Road and Westland Avenue. Dubbed the Erbes Fire, the blaze burned near Erbes Road and east of Highway 23. Around 7 p.m., firefighters appeared to have gained the upper hand of the...

Thousand Oaks Fire Map, Update As Erbes Blaze Sparks Red Flag Warning for Ventura County On 1/15/21 at 4:57 AM EST The Erbes Fire in Thousand Oaks, California, has burned around 250 acres with "forward progress stopped," according to the latest update from the Ventura County Fire Department (VDFD). All evacuation orders, which were in place for structures west of the Bard Reservoir, east of Highway 23, north of Fernleaf Court and south of Hardy Lane, have been lifted. A Red Flag Warning has bee...

Ryan Dorsey and Glee stars honored fellow co-star and friend Naya Rivera on what would have been her 34th birthday. Read the touching tributes here.

Defiant SoHo Karen Miya Ponsetto arrives back in LA after NYC arraignment - with a drink in hand - as it emerges she is being probed for vandalizing her Airbnb on same day she accused black 14-year-old of stealing her phone Miya Ponsetto was seen at the Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday with a drink in her hand after she was arraigned in New York It has been revealed shes also being probed for smashing an Airbnb door with a fire extinguisher the same day as her scuffle with Keyon Harr...

Miya Ponsetto was seen at Newark International Airport for flight to California Ponsetto left her hotel around 8.15am when she boarded the hotels airport shuttle that took her to the airport  The 22-year-old refused to answer any questions once she arrived at the airport where she was photographed waiting to pass through airport security  Ponsetto flew home Sunday morning after a judge ruled she did not require bail  On Saturday she was led out of NYPDs 1st Precinct ahead of her arraignment�...

EXCLUSIVE: Soho Karen Miya Ponsetto arrives at her New Jersey hotel late Saturday after being extradited from California and arraigned on felony robbery and assault charges for attacking black boy, 14 Miya Ponsetto checked into her New Jersey hotel Saturday, wearing the same clothes shed been in all day - a purple crop top, black leggings, and a beanie  She spent around ten minutes in the hotel before going up to her room shortly before 9pm  Ponsetto is expected to fly home to California tomo...

Soho Karen Miya Ponsetto, 22, is remanded in jail after eight-minute California court hearing where she agreed to extradition to NYC on FOUR felony charges included attempted robbery and assault, for attacking a black teen, 14, in hotel Miya Ponsetto, 22, appeared in Ventura County court, California, via Zoom just after 2 p.m. local time Friday for her extradition hearing  She looked glum as she appeared dressed in blue and red prison scrubs  She and her attorney Justin Tuttle agreed to her e...

January 9, 2021 For Miya Ponsetto, a nationally televised interview was an opportunity to apologize, her lawyer said, for falsely accusing a Black teenager of stealing her cellphone — and then tackling him — in the lobby of a Manhattan hotel. Instead, Ponsetto, 22, went off-script. She stormed out of the disastrous interview with “CBS This Morning,” recorded Thursday, only to be arrested hours later by California authorities. By the time the interview aired Friday morning, Ponsetto was ...