AMY ASMAN

The tense rivalry between Santa Barbara County district attorney candidates Josh Lynn and Joyce Dudley marked what was arguably the most heated political race of 2010. The two attorneys slung insults and attacked each other’s campaign platforms like veteran politicos, with Dudley proving victorious come Election Day. Three days later, on June 11, Lynn was […]

Just like most people can recall their exact location when news broke that President John F. Kennedy was shot or suicidal terrorists were attacking the World Trade Center, Emiko Gerber distinctly remembers what she was doing when a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami wreaked havoc on Japan. “It was just devastating,” Gerber, who has family members […]

Dr. Frank Lagattuta grabs an ultrasound wand and squeezes a generous dollop of surgical lubricant onto its tip. He then positions it on top of my knee. “There’s your patella, see?” he says as he points to the computer screen and continues squishing the wand against my now- slippery skin. I can barely make anything […]

Robert Galletta is an expert when it comes to investigating crimes of financial elder abuse. The Beaumont Police Department officer recently spoke at an elder abuse prevention conference in Santa Barbara, presented by the Central Coast Commission for Senior Citizens and Area Agency on Aging. Galletta said one of the classic scams he sees committed […]

Officials with the California Department of Food and Agriculture are continuing to monitor a recent outbreak of Equine Herpes Myeloencephalopathy (EHV-1)—a deadly virus that affects horses’ nervous systems. According to information from the department, the disease has been traced to horses that attended the National Cutting Horse Associations’ Western National Championships in Ogden, Utah, April […]