Westmont College and the Santa Barbara Unified School District will use a $2.4 million state grant to help aspiring teachers.

The co-defendant - alongside Rebecca Grossman - in a civil suit over the deaths of two young boys from Westlake Village has admitted giving detectives the wrong car to inspect in the murder investigation, when he gave evidence in a Van Nuys court for the first time this week.

Ventura County is one of the biggest strawberry-growing regions in the state, producing 36 million trays of the juicy red fruit annually.

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson vows the search will continue.

The cause of the death is under investigation.

The fire was reported just after 7 a.m. Monday on Platform Habitat, about eight miles southwest of Carpinteria. It was knocked down in about four hours.

Soil tests from the convicted murderer's home in Arroyo Grande show evidence of human decomposition. But no human remains have been found.