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Five months after filing a lawsuit against the Goleta Water District in Santa Barbara, attorneys have secured a six-figure award in favor of five plaintiffs resulting from the utility’s restrictive COVID-19 employee vaccine mandate. “This was fairly early on that they offered this judgment that the plaintiffs were the prevailing parties, which means they did not want to litigate this case clearly and go to discovery,” said Mariah Gondeiro, an Advocates for Faith & Freedom lawyer. “I believe that we can use it in other cases as a precedent.” Advocates for Faith & Freedom, a nonprofit law firm, filed their...

Approximately 3,000 mail-in ballots counted in the Nov. 3 election were supposedly cast by UCSB students residing in a voting precinct that, along with other dorm buildings, includes the Francisco Torres/Santa Catalina Residence Hall at 6850 El Colegio Road in Goleta. Problem: Due to COVID-19, the Torres Building, which normally accommodates 1,300 students, was empty and locked down through most of 2020, as were all other UCSB dorms. This means no students/voters were residing inside the Torres Building (nor any of the other dorms) during the election season.

Santa Barbara officers attempting to serve a “high risk” warrant at an apartment near Goleta, Ca. were met with gunfire Tuesday afternoon, according to the Santa Barbara Police Department. A multi-agency law enforcement response to the scene ended several hours later, after the suspected shooter was found dead in a residence. A SWAT and crisis negotiators arrived at the apartment at Turnpike Road and Camino De Vida at about 12:45 p.m., said Anthony Wagner, a police spokesman. Once on scene, the wanted male suspect fired on them several times, Wagner said, adding that no officers were injured. There was a...

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) -- A Santa Barbara County Fire captain says two people are dead and at least two others wounded in a shooting at a postal facility in Goleta. Fire Captain Keith Cullom says the two injured were taken to the hospital in critical condition. He was not able to confirm if there are additional victims. Cullom says the gunman remains at large while one of the victims was close to the building entrance and was pulled out by a paramedic.

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