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Hart Baseball Team Needs Extra Innings To Beat Saugus

Trevor Brown drives in winning run in 11th inning. The Hart baseball team had a two-run lead against Saugus, but needed extra innings to post a 4-3 win on Wednesday. Trevor Brown knocked in the winning run for Hart with an infield single in the 11th inning. [view:node_ad=5] Zach Vincej hit a solo home run for Saugus in the bottom ...

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Swine Flu Still Avoids Santa Clarita Area

  With no suspected or confirmed cases of swine flu in the Santa Clarita Valley, residents are encouraged to maintain preventive practices such as washing their hands, staying home if they or their children feel sick and limiting contact with those who may have symptoms of the flu. [view:node_ad=5] As of 10:30 a.m. Thursday, the California Department of Public Health ...

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Smoke Shop Has License Permanently Revoked

  Officials went through the motions Thursday morning and posted a revocation notice on the window of the former Smoke N Cerveza shop in The Oaks shopping center on Lyons Avenue, although the tenants had removed the store’s contents long before their arrival. [view:node_ad=5] The revocation came after an investigation by state Alcohol Beverage Control that substantiated evidence of an ...

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Armed Robbery Will Cost You

The man arrested in connection with a series of armed robberies in Santa Clarita has been sentenced by a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge. Christopher Johnson, 25, of Canyon Country was sentenced to 65 years and four months in state prison for the armed robbery of a string of liquor stores, that started in January and ended April, 2006.   ...

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Dodgers Launch “Mannywood” Section

Beginning with the current Dodger homestand, fans will have the opportunity to sit in “Mannywood,” an area named to honor left fielder Manny Ramirez.  Field Level seats, fair of the foul pole in left field, will be sold in pairs with exclusive Mannywood T-Shirts for $99.  Ramirez wears Number 99. [view:node_ad=5] The seats, the closest to the Dodgers left fielder, ...

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Water Challenge Has Students Thinking Blue

The winners were announced at an awards reception Tuesday night in front of representatives of Supervisor Michael Antonovich, Assemblyman Cameron Smyth, Castaic Lake Water Agency Directors and General Manager Dan Masnada. [view:node_ad=5] Saugus High took home the first place spot and the $7,000 scholarship prize with their team, the Saugus Droplets.   Kelsey Kotler, Nicole Janossy, Ariana Chedravi, Daniel Leary, ...

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Runner Successful In Getting Victim’s Bill Up For Vote

State Senator George Runner presented Senate Bill 432 in Senate Public Safety Committee this week, which proposed plans to streamline the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) process for distributing restitution money to victims. [view:node_ad=5]”SB 432 will assist CDCR in getting victim contact information so the 6.5 million dollars being held in trust by the Victims Compensation & Government ...

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Khanna Institute Founder Featured In Trade Journal

Recently M.D. Rajesh Khanna, founder of the Khanna Institute of LASIK, was featured in the respected trade journal, Cataract & refractive surgery today. In the article titled, “Advantageous in second-opinion patients.” Dr. Khanna discussed his newest technology PRELEX and his wavefront LASIK procedures. [view:node_ad=5]PRELEX, one of the newest editions to medical vision advancements treats the condition of presbyopia. PRELEX can ...

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“Kite Runner” Has Some Students Flying High

Officials at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons (PAC) have announced the three scholarship winners of the college’s Literature to Life essay contest focusing on Khalid Hosseini’s best-selling novel “The Kite Runner.” [view:node_ad=5] Contest organizers called for high school students to submit an essay of 800 words or less that compared and contrasted Hosseini’s novel ...

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Bear Killed On I-5

On Thursday morning a bear was struck and killed on the I-5 freeway. The incident occurred on the southbound I-5 at McBean Parkway.   {sidebar id-5}It is unclear at this time if the deceased bear is the same one that was sighted in two nearby Valencia locations over the weekend.   Friday night, residents called in a bear sighting near ...

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