OCEANO, Calif. (KEYT) – Non-profit ‘Friends Of Oceano Dunes’ is intervening in a lawsuit to protect recreational use and vehicular access to the state beach. If approved, it could complicate the Center For Biological Diversity’s efforts in reducing OHV use. The group represents members and motorized vehicle users who accuse state officials of not always fully defending the
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Santa Barbara Police are investigating a fatal hit and run that killed a woman just after 10:00 p.m. Friday. As detailed in a press release, a SBPD officer witnessed a reckless driver at the 300 block of West Carrillo Street and attempted a traffic stop before deeming the pursuit too dangerous
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) – San Luis Obispo Police arrested a 20-year-old Nipomo man after armed robberies at two stores in the city just after 7:00 p.m. Friday night. The robberies happened at the 11000 block of Los Osos Valley Road when the man flashed a semi automatic rifle before stealing two knives from Dick’s
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LOMPOC, Calif. (KEYT) – Immigrant rights supporters and local residents assembled in Lompoc for a protest directed at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The demonstration follows increased ICE operations this week that led to dozens of local arrests. Local nonprofit 805 Undocufund reported that federal authorities took at least 34 people into custody between Monday
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VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – A man from Oak Park has been ordered to serve one year, or 365 days, in Ventura County Jail for a reckless driving incident that took the lives of Alejandro and Maria Ramirez last year. Back in May 2025, Oak Park resident Neil Liam Reb was driving a 2024 Jeep
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – The Santa Maria Police Department (SMPD) seized numerous weapons and rounds of live ammunition during a probation check inside a residence Thursday afternoon. In a press release, SMPD detailed that during a probation compliance check on October 8th around 4:00pm, officers came upon several thousand rounds of live ammunition of
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VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT)— An art exhibition at the Ventura County Government Center is shining a light on domestic violence, giving survivors a platform to share their experiences and reclaim their power through creative expression. The Domestic Violence Awareness Month Art Show, held at the Atrium Gallery, features artwork intended to encourage conversations about abuse and
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VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) – A Ventura man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder charges, amongst other offenses in a 2022 attack that left another man dead. On Monday, Pedro Munoz of Ventura admitted to stabbing Marcos Guzman Reyes to death on July 23, 2022 along a bike path Ventura’s Montalvo neighborhood. A press release from
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Efforts to hold boat owners accountable for crashes is being discussed by Santa Barbara Supervisors. The city has a policy in place.
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WASHINGTON D.C. (KEYT) – A recently released whistleblower report alleges that the Trump Administration directed employees at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Field Office in Los Angeles to open investigations into legally protected protest activities last year. According to a whistleblower disclosure by former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Jill Fields, the
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – Ashlee Buzzard appeared in Department 7 of Santa Barbara Superior Court in Santa Maria this morning. Buzzard was arrested in December and faces first-degree murder charges for the death of her 9-year-old daughter Melodee last year. Melodee was first reported missing after a prolonged school absence in October of last
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – The parent of an Allan Hancock College student was detained on the school’s main campus by federal immigration agents Monday morning. According to Allan Hancock College, around 9:45 a.m., officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrived at the school’s Santa Maria campus and detained the student’s parent in
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – A Northern County Branch Jail inmate died after receiving medical care at a nursing facility, according to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office. Ernest Lattimer, 79, was being held in custody on $1 million bail after mulitple felony sex crimes involving a minor, according to the SBCSO. Lattimer’s charges included violent
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LOS OSOS, Calif. (KEYT) – A dog has died and a family displaced after a fire at a home on Los Osos Valley road Monday morning. According to the San Luis Obispo County Fire Department, units responded to a residential fire in the 2200 block of Los Osos Valley Road and arrived to find the
Continue Reading SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – A person is in stable condition after a shooting Sunday in the 800 block of San Pascual Street. On Oct. 4, around 5:30 p.m., dispatchers received several calls about a single shot heard in the area of the 800 block of San Pascual Street and dispatchers learned that an adult
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VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Khambray Antoine Holloway, 34, of Oxnard was convicted this week of filing a false or forged document in an attempt to steal an Oxnard home. In July 2025, Holloway filed a fake notarized grant deed with the Ventura County Recorder’s Office establishing him as the owner of a $4.8 million
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – Three Santa Maria men were arrested Thursday night after police discovered a large amount of drugs, cash and small children inside a local home. Officers initially responded to a call for service at the residence around 10:18 p.m. After finding drugs and cash, investigators with the gang suppression team obtained
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SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Gary Lee Roberts II was found guilty of first-degree residential burglary and attempted burglary after targeting the same Atascadero home in October of last year and being stopped the during the burglary by the homeowner. On Oct. 6, 2025, the victim in the case first saw Roberts when
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VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Manuel Alejandro Vasquez pled guilty this week to the 1998 first-degree murder of Felipe Arambula in Ventura. On June 13, 1998, Arambula was shot and killed inside his Ventura home by two men and detectives were able to later identify the duo as Manuel Vasquez and David Hampton stated the
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SAN FRANCISCO (KEYT) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced he is leading a coalition of attorneys general in filing a legal challenge to the Trump Administration’s stated intent to impound Congressionally-approved funding, a fundamental alteration to the spending process detailed in the U.S Constitution and in federal law. “The Trump Administration’s attempts to unlawfully
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