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On Thanksgiving Day in 1986, we published our first issue of The Santa Barbara Independent . It was also our first honor roll of Local Heroes, with stories of men and women who truly deserved our thanks for making Santa Barbara such an amazing place to live.

PDN: I don’t want to make you relive a bad day, but what was it like when they came around at Radar and told everyone the magazine was closing?

RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) - A New York rabbi and his wife and a father and his teenage daughter from a Virginia meditation community were among those killed in the terrorist attacks in India, colleagues said Friday.

It took more than ten hours, but a Springfield Township teenager now has a new heart.

"Hooterville" used to be the wholesome pastoral town depicted in the 1965-71 TV series Green Acres. Among Hooterville’s citizens were quirky farmers holding bent pitchforks and general store owners who were also the town postmaster, justice of the peace, and publisher of the local newspaper.

RICHMOND, Virginia - A New York rabbi and his wife and a father and his teenage daughter from a Virginia meditation community were among those killed in the terrorist attacks...

Alcohol and drug use can progress into abuse and even addiction so insidiously that sometimes people do not realize that it has become a problem for them and those...

For 3-year-old Trinity Skye Weiss, life is all about her baby dolls, riding the four-wheeler, cars, animals and spending time with her family.

JANET'S INDECENCY CASE APPEALED TO SUPREME COURT: FCC says appellate court was wrong to throw out $550,000 fine. *The Federal Communications Commission is appealing its Janet Jackson indecency lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming a previous appeals ruling that tossed the case was wrong.

Newly unsealed documents shed light on why F.B.I. anthrax investigators spent years pursuing the wrong man.