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It was a difficult day for students at a Ventura County high school, as they learned that a member of the high school’s football team died over the weekend.

Griffen Kramer was found dead Sunday morning (10/30) at the home of a friend in Agoura Hills, where he’d stayed overnight.

The 18-year-old was one of the quarterbacks on the Thousand Oaks High School football team, and was the son of NFL quarterback Erik Kramer, who played pro ball for more than a decade, from the late 1980’s to the late 1990’s.  Kramer was the team’s number two quarterback.

The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office is conducting an autopsy to try to determine the cause of death.

It was a celebrity wedding in Montecito which made many neighbors mad, because of traffic, noise, and media helicopters flying over the community.

Now, less than three months after the high-profile ceremony which was turned into a television special, the marriage of Kim Kardashian and NBA basketball player Kris Humphries is apparently on the rocks.

Kardashian filed for divorce just 72 days after the ceremony, citing irreconcilable differences.

Complaints about the ceremony prompted Santa Barbara County officials to examine the process, with some saying its turned out to be so large that a special permit should have been required, along with requirements for steps to mitigate potential impacts.

An Oxnard man police say was driving with a blood alcohol content nearly three times the legal limit is facing multiple charges, after he was involved in four separate traffic accidents in a ten minute period.

It happened just before 5 p.m. yesterday, near Rose Avenue and Gonzales Road.

Police called to the scene found three separate accidents, and witnesses pointed out a vehicle fleeing the scene.

There was a short chase, which ended when the hood of the vehicle being pursued flew up, blocking the driver’s view.  It crashed into a van near the intersection of Auto Center Drive, and Paseo Mercado.

45-year-old Servando Mendez was treated for minor injuries at a hospital, and then arrested on DUI, evading a police officer, and three hit and run charges.

No one was seriously injured.

The State Judicial Council is looking at potentially using grant money from a foundation to streamline outdated data management systems in California’s courts, with Ventura County set to be one of first to implement the technology.

The Council has signed a deal with the Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation to see if they can jointly deploy the California Court Management System.  The Foundation has been working on developing a similar management system for health care, and its believed the technology will improve things like electronic filing of documents, case management, and inquiries.  The state currently doesn’t have the estimated $340 million plus dollars needed  for upgrading local court systems.

Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge James Herman, who’s on the State Judicial Council, says the foundation’s offer to help is an open door which needs to be pursued.

A little known Ventura County group plays matchmaker between senior citizens, and volunteers.  KCLU’s Lance Orozco has the story, from Ventura.

Link to “Caregivers” website:  www.vccaregivers.org

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Authorities say they have broken up a Ventura County gang that’s been burglarizing homes in Santa Barbara County.

Santa Barbara Police say they received information that a man named Daniel Itza was behind some of the burglaries, and that he might be in Ventura County.  When they talked to Ventura County Sheriff’s Gang Unit memberrs, they discovered the man they were looking for was really named Raphael Rincon. 

Othe information led the police, and gang detectives to conduct a joint stakeout in Goleta, where they found Rincon, Tony Santiago, and Linda Itza.  Investigators say after arresting the three, they found them in possession of items which had just been stolen from a Goleta home.

They were arrested on burglary, and other related charges, while a fourth person arrested with them was booked on drug related counts.

Oxnard Police are investigating a brazen daylight armed robbery of a jewelry store in which a man used a gun to keep employees at bay, while he used a hammer to break open display cases, and steal a number of items.

It happened just before 1:30 this afternoon, at Daniel’s Jewelers, on the 2000 block of North Rose Avenue.

A white male in his 30’s wearing a baseball cap, a bandana over his face, and sunglasses entered the store, and committed the robbery.

No one was hurt.

The man fled on foot, and is still at large.

The City Of Santa Barbara is getting some extra feet on the streets, civilians who can serve as extra eyes for officers, and help deal with minor problems.  KCLU’s John Palminteri has the story.

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The Santa Barbara County Courthouse is going to take on a ghoulish air tomorrow (10/29), as it’s invaded by an army of dancers taking part in a global “Thriller” dance event.

KCLU’s Lance Orozco has the story: Thriller

An oyster, clam, and champagne event in Ventura today (10/28) is the latest effort to try to help save a popular state beach threatened with closure.

The fundraiser at the Jolly Oyster restaurant, at San Buenaventura State Beach, is part of efforts to save McGrath State Beach from shutdown.

State parks officials had planned to close the park because they didn’t have the roughly $500,000 of dollars to repair a deteriorating sewer line.  The City of Oxnard, and Ventura County have pledged $50,000 each to the project, and the state may contribute $100,000, but the key is a still pending request for a $250,000 federal grant.

The fundraiser to help with the remaining $50,000 needed is scheduled to run from 3 to 6 p.m.