Appeals court ruling spells a change for Jamal Jackson, the defendant in a 2018 stabbing at a Ventura steakhouse.

Among tricky items to recycle, cigarette butts are a focus of the Surfrider Foundation in Ventura County and elsewhere.

Southern California is a region that’s often thought of as a destination full of entertainment and the sun-kissed metropolis ...

at the Aloha Steakhouse on the Ventura Promenade. Jackson pleaded not guilty but has never approached trial after repeatedly being found unable to participate in his own defense. Mele was stabbed ...

Vandals repeatedly broke locks on cigarette butt containers along the Ventura beach promenade, sometimes dumping out the carefully stored cigarettes and sometimes stealing the entire container.