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Woman who preyed on best friend's son given six-year prison sentence

SANTA BARBARA — With prosecution witnesses, including the victim’s mother, accusing her of “deliberate infliction of harm,” Genise Joan Schu was sentenced in Santa Barbara Superior Court to a six-year

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Woman who preyed on best friend’s son given six-year prison sentence

SANTA BARBARA — With prosecution witnesses, including the victim’s mother, accusing her of “deliberate infliction of harm,” Genise Joan Schu was sentenced in Santa Barbara Superior Court to a six-year

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From campus to clink for UC Santa Barbara student

SANTA BARBARA — During a pedestrian “stop” on the sidewalk of a local UC Santa Barbara neighborhood street Friday morning, sheriff’s narcotics detectives discovered 19-year-old Nicklaus Horsma to be in

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Fugitive couple tracked from central coast to Nevada

  SANTA BARBARA — While a local man lies in a Cottage Hospital bed recovering from a single .45 caliber gunshot wound to the head, Santa Barbara detectives followed more

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Stormy seas for Santa Barbara smugglers

SANTA BARBARA — Federal narcotics agents booked four Mexican nationals Wednesday on charges of smuggling just over a ton of marijuana into the waters just off the Santa Barbara coast

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Child’s testimony yields life sentence

SANTA BARBARA — In September 2009, 35-year-old German Acosta was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault, forcible lewd acts upon a child, and another lewd and lascivious act not by

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Shooting suspects on the loose

SANTA BARBARA — A Santa Barbara man remains in serious condition at the city’s Cottage Hospital following his shooting in the doorway of the Westside home he shares with his

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Investigation into thwarted kidnapping continues

LOMPOC — Police forces responded to Ryon Park Friday morning to investigate a report of attempted kidnapping at 802 W. Ocean Ave. The suspect, described as a Hispanic male between

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Disgruntled engineer threatens UC Santa Barbara

SANTA BARBARA — Just days after a deadly shooting at Alabama University, the University of California at Santa Barbara campus became the target of widespread and profound threats of violence

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Traffic stop breaks supply chain

SANTA BARBARA — Thirty-nine year-old Glen Mowrer III made three mistakes ton Monday: driving a car without a front license plate, contacting a suspected street hooker and having 20 pounds