Firefighters wary of unpredictable winds fought on Thursday to keep a wildfire that destroyed dozens of homes from burning through Santa Barbara.
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/ 22 February 2008
A Venezuelan passenger plane with 46 people aboard went missing and likely crashed in a remote mountain region soon after taking off from an Andean city just before dusk on Thursday. Villagers reported hearing a huge noise they thought could be a crash after the twin-engine plane flew out of the high-altitude city of Merida headed for the capital Caracas.
Author Marjorie Kellogg, whose socially conscious plays and novels featured characters with mental and physical illnesses, has died. She was 83. Kellogg, best known for Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, died on December 19 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at her Santa Barbara home.
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/ 20 October 2005
Authorities want Michael Jackson back in court — this time as a juror. Jackson received a jury summons at his Neverland Valley Ranch, four months after he was acquitted of child-molestation charges. ”It’s just one of those ironies of life that he’d be called as a juror,” said a professor at Loyola School of Law.