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Saturday, July 5, 2008 10:02 AM PDT
Fire officials reported progress overnight in corralling the Gap Fire in the foothills and mountains above Goleta, and said they planned a renewed aerial push to quell the blaze that has been burning since Tuesday afternoon.
Acreage burned swelled to more than 8,350 acres, but the blaze is now 24 percent contained, according to Manuel Madrigal, a spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service.
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One year ago, on July 4, two workers on a ranch near Zaca Lake sparked the second largest wildfire in state history.
As the fire swept eastward, burning through over 240,000 acres, mostly in the Los Padres National Forest, it came perilously close to the wildland communities at the base of Figueroa Mountain, and also those around San Marcos Pass.
“From my house I could see 180 degrees of fire, it looked like the surface of the sun,” said Mike Williams, whose home was seven miles from the fire line at one point.
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A Los Alamos man pleaded no contest Monday to committing lewd or lascivious acts on two underage sisters, one of whom is disabled.
Francisco Diaz Gutierrez pleaded no contest to a count of a committing a lewd or lascivious act on a child under 14 in connection with the younger sister, and a count of a lewd or lascivious act on a 14- or 15-year-old against the older girl, said Deputy District Attorney Stephen Foley.
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Los Alamos is sending five young cowboys and cowgirls to the National High School Rodeo Finals. This year the finals will be held in Farmington, N.M., from July 20-25.
Representing California High School Rodeo Association District 7 at the California High School Rodeo State Finals in Bishop from June 15-21, the student wranglers had to finish in the top four in their events to qualify for the Nationals.
Lindsey Milner earned a spot in the Nationals by wining the championship in Girls Cutting. Jacob Pinheiro won the Boys Cutting.
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Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, “The Happening” is a tense and often gory thriller/fantasy that unfortunately lacks the originality and twists of his most ambitious and successful film, “The Sixth Sense.” Presenting an underlying (although thinly drawn) “message” about protecting the environment, Shyamalan stumbles a bit with the goofy and ambiguous script that doesn’t offer much for the cast to work with and results in a number of overwrought performances.
When an unidentifiable “plague” infiltrates Central Park causing immediate disorientation and suicidal behavior, a Philadelphia science teacher, Elliot (Mark Wahlberg), agrees with his best friend and colleague, Julian (John Leguizamo), to gather their respective families and evacuate the Northeast.
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