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  A Stevenson Ranch probation officer ran a roadblock during last fall’s wildfires because he was responding to the “uncharacteristic hysteria” in his wife’s voice as she described flames rolling down the hill toward their home, his defense attorney said Thursday.

   An intelligence firm accused in a new lawsuit of conspiring to torture Abu Ghraib prisoners denounced the allegations as malicious Thursday and disavowed any connection to a Santa Clarita man targeted in the suit.

  Former Iraqi detainees who were stripped and beaten at Abu Ghraib prison have filed a lawsuit alleging that a Santa Clarita man conspired with others to torture them.

  The federal government didn’t crack down on an intelligence firm that provided civilian interrogators to Abu Ghraib prison last fall because the Army never reported any kind of problem, an official said Tuesday.

     For now, the cross must go.    A last-ditch effort to preserve the small cross on the Los Angeles County seal failed Tuesday on a 3-2 vote by the Board of Supervisors.

Tears and memories flowed as thousands of Americans slowly moved past the flag-draped casket of the nation’s 40th president.

Plans to turn a shuttered Valencia multiplex into a church have moved ahead as the city of Santa Clarita granted a permit for the Church on the Way to open a campus at the former Mann Theater.

  One or more sheriff’s deputies shot and wounded a suspected car thief in Canyon Country on Thursday after the suspect allegedly pointed a gun at them.

  Sheriff’s deputies chased three teenage suspects across the eastern edge of the Santa Clarita Valley during an early morning strong-armed rampage Wednesday.

  Over 17,000 students from 4 local elementary school districts participated in the Second Annual 2004 Blue Barrel Disposal Total Trash Out recycling contest, raising over $31,000 for Santa Clarita Valley schools.