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City Council Puts Health Care Policy Change On The Record

With a 4-0 vote, Santa Clarita City Council members Tuesday approved a staff recommendation asking city officials to publicly re-affirm a nearly 2-year-old decision regarding city employees’ health care policies. The discussion was spurred by a request from Councilman TimBen Boydston, who took issue with an $800-per-month discrepancy between what he was eligible for in cash-in-lieu health care benefits compared ...

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Flash Mob Promotes Men’s Cancer Awareness

MEGAN PEREZ, SCVNEWS.COM Shoppers got a surprise show at the Westfield Valencia Town Center on Saturday. At the stroke of noon, the music started and a dozen dancers sporting fake mustaches converged on center court inside the mall near JC Penney. Their flashy, choreographed moves were set to the popular South Korean hit, “Gangnam Style,” a single that has gone ...

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Former COC Trustee Death Ruled Suicide

LEON WORDEN, SCVNEWS.COM Officials in Loudoun County, Va., have confirmed that former College of the Canyons trustee Ernest L. “Ernie” Tichenor took his own life. Tichenor’s body was found Friday morning in Virginia, where he’d been living. Later that same day he was scheduled to be sentenced after pleading guilty July 27 to attempting to solicit a 13-year-old Loudoun County ...

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Santa Clarita Charities Receive $90,000 For The Arts

TPC/West Ranch Art & Wine Gala officials are presenting $90,000 in donations to local charities at the Valencia Wine Co. on Tuesday. The money was raised last September at a wine gala fundraiser for local arts organizations. 

 “We saw an opportunity to get together and raise money for all these community organizations that could benefit from some fundraising,” said ...

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Homicide Investigators Looking At Overdose In Valencia

Homicide investigators with the Sheriff’s Department are looking into the death of a 38-year-old Valencia woman who lived in the Arbor Park condominium complex, according to officials. The woman died of an apparent opiate overdose of prescription pills, according to sheriff’s officials who responded to the residence Tuesday around 10 a.m. The woman was found by her father in her ...

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