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John Palminteri

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – The budget preparation workshops have begun in Santa Barbara County with a “clear eye discussion”.

That was the first message from County Chief Executive Officer Mona Miyasto. She said there are always mandates expectations and great complexities.

“The hardest decisions we make are about what to stop not what to start,” said Miyasato.

The county has a projected deficit of about $70-million. Last year, departments were warned and asked to begin coming up with solutions.

The final budget hearings will be in June for the new budget July 1.

Departments looking to make cuts or have proposed hiring freezes could include the Sheriff’s Office, Health, Housing and Human Services and other essential services.

Some of the cities in Santa Barbara County have a contract for first responders instead of having their owner police and fire but it all has to be provided by those departments for the cities and area that are unincorporated.

Funding from federal and state sources are being cut and locally there will be changes to balance the local budgets.

One of the first hearings will deal with Santa Barbara County Health. Cuts could reduce clinic operations and that could send more people to a more expensive solution at the emergency rooms locally.

Some of the speakers will be talking about cuts to Cal Fresh and other support programs for the poor.

Many say the new budget needs to prioritize kids.

“I always look at it through the lens of of our children. And just how are the cuts going to ultimately impact the next generation? You know, not just my children, but their children, you know, and the children of this county, because it’s tough,” said Santa Barbara County Supervisor Laura Capps.

“Today’s children will be tomorrow’s adults, and we want to have stronger adults, a stronger community,” said First Five Executive Director Wendy Sims-Moten.

“What we know about young children, especially, is, 90% of brain development happens in the first five years of life. So if we can get it right when they’re young, that will continue on later. And, there’ll be return on investment and cost savings later on,” said First Five Deputy Director Michelle Robertson.

Monday the focus was on mental health, but important revenue questions around artificial intelligence, cannabis, and the jail system will take place on Wednesday and Friday.

Supervisors spent the day reviewing department budgets and asking questions, but no final decisions were made.

Final decisions are expected in June.

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Mike Klan

CORVALLIS, Oregon. (KEYT) – Easton Talt hit a walk-off RBI single to cap off a two-run rally in the bottom of the ninth inning as #7 Oregon State edged Cal Poly 3-2 to complete a 3-game sweep.

The slumping Mustangs held leads in all three games but fall to 18-16 on the year. Cal Poly has dropped 9 of their last 13 games.

Cal Poly got a solo home run in the fifth inning by Dylan Kordic to tie the game at 1 and then went in front on another solo home run by Nate Castellon in the sixth inning.

The Mustangs outhit Oregon State for the second straight game 11-6 but could not break through in the win column.

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CNN Newsource

By Eric Bradner, Arit John, CNN

(CNN) — Rep. Eric Swalwell said Sunday he would withdraw from the California governor’s race in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct that led to a nearly immediate campaign collapse, as staffers quit and prominent Democratic supporters urged him to drop out.

“I am suspending my campaign for Governor,” he posted on X. “To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past. I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made — but that’s my fight, not a campaign’s.”

Swalwell was long considered a top contender in a wide-open field with several prominent Democrats and two Republicans ahead of the state’s June 2 nonpartisan primary. But on Friday, his campaign was roiled when CNN and the San Francisco Chronicle published reports in which women accused Swalwell of sexual misconduct.

A former Swalwell staffer told CNN the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated and left her bruised and bleeding. Swalwell has strongly denied the allegations.

“I was pushing him off of me, saying no,” the woman told CNN of the incident, which she said happened in 2024 in New York City after she had stopped working in Swalwell’s office. “He didn’t stop.”

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Saturday it is investigating the allegation of sexual assault the woman said took place in New York. The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office told CNN in a statement Saturday it is “evaluating whether any alleged criminal conduct occurred within” the Bay Area county, where the same woman accused Swalwell of a separate act of sexual misconduct she said took place in 2019.

Three other women who spoke with CNN also alleged various kinds of sexual misconduct by the Democratic congressman — including Swalwell sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos. Swalwell has denied the women’s allegations.

Within hours of the reports on the allegations, key allies, including campaign chair Rep. Jimmy Gomez and Sens. Ruben Gallego and Adam Schiff, pulled their support almost immediately, with new statements denouncing Swalwell arriving in rapid succession. An independent expenditure group backing him announced it would shut down.

A governor’s race that was already drawing national attention was thrown further into flux. Among the top Democrats left are billionaire Tom Steyer, former Rep. Katie Porter, former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan. Chad Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff, and Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host endorsed by President Donald Trump, are the Republican contenders.

Mahan released a scathing statement in the wake of Swalwell’s announcement, writing that California deserved better.

“Eric Swalwell is done. Done abusing women. Done climbing the political ladder. Done,” Mahan wrote on X. “Exiting a race you should never have entered deserves no credit. It is an overdue acknowledgment of what the brave survivors who came forward already made clear: Eric Swalwell represented the worst of politics.”

It’s unclear whether Swalwell will remain in the US House until his term expires in January. Multiple Democrats on Sunday called on Swalwell to leave Congress.

“We should not tolerate this behavior,” Virginia Rep. Eugene Vindman told CNN on Sunday. “Rep. Eric Swalwell needs to go.”

Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington said she would vote to expel both him and Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas, who is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over sexual misconduct allegations.

More than 50 former Swalwell staffers signed on to a letter earlier Sunday calling on him to drop out of the race and resign from Congress.

“The allegations reported by the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN are serious, credible, and demand accountability,” the letter said. “We stand unequivocally with our colleague, who showed extraordinary courage in coming forward to share her truth. We believe her.”

This story has been updated with additional information.

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CNN’s Allison Gordon, Isabelle Chapman, Casey Tolan, Pamela Brown and Michael Williams contributed to this report.

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Mike Klan

UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Kellan Montgomery pitched eight strong innings and Nico Libed delivered the big hit as UCSB edged UC San Diego 3-1 to pull within a game of the Tritons in the Big West standings.

The Dos Pueblos High School alum Montgomery allowed just one run and four hits while striking out 9 as he improved to 6-2 on the year.

(Montgomery retired the final 13 batters he faced in the win. Entenza Design).

The Gauchos were trailing 1-0 but in the bottom the seventh inning Nico Libed came off the bench and delivered a two-out, 2-run pinch-hit double down the left field line to put the Gauchos in the lead for good.

From head coach Andrew Checketts: “Yeah, he looked bad on the first breaking ball, swung through it, then did a really good job of laying off some pitches and got a mistake and made the guy pay when he made the mistake. Nico, he’s a really good .200 hitter. He’s better than that, he puts together competitive at-bats, we felt like at that time he gave us a really good shot. We needed a hit, he pulled the gear off in the bullpen, ran down there and did his thing, so it was pretty cool.”

Liam Barrett smashed a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the Gauchos an insurance run.

“(Barrett) has been a breath of fresh air for us ever since we inserted him in there since he came back from injury,” said Checketts. “Some other guys went down, he’s done a really good job of taking quality at-bat after quality at-bat after quality at-bat and that was another example of that.”

Van Froling struck out the side in the ninth inning for his second save on the year.

UCSB is now 22-11 on the season and 10-5 in the Big West as they try to chase down the Tritons who are 11-4 in league. The Gauchos are tied for second with Cal Poly in league.

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Matteo Burdick had 25 kills to lead San Marcos boys volleyball to a 5-set win over Burbank-Burroughs in the championship game of the Karch Kiraly Santa Barbara Tournament of Champions.

Burdick was named the MVP as the Royals won their first ever TOC.

San Marcos won the final set 21-19.

Host Santa Barbara went 2-2 to claim fourth place in the 16-team tournament.

Dos Pueblos finished 11th.

Local players joining Burdick on the All-Tournament team were Royals teammates Keanu Nguyen and Tyler Walker along with Santa Barbara’s Maddox Denver and Jasper Bell

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Mike Klan

ARCADIA, Calif. (KEYT) – Santa Barbara High School junior Elina Stump won the Open Division long jump at the prestigious Arcadia Invitational with a Dons program-record mark of 18 feet, 11 inches.

(Video courtesy Olivia Percedes).

Stump also finished second in the triple jump 37-11 and placed 9th in the 100-hurdles with a personal best time of 14.69 seconds.

Cal Poly-bound football player Malachi Johnston came in 10th place for the Dons in the Open Division shot put with a distance of 52 feet, 10 inches.

San Marcos High School senior Logan Patterson Deakyne finished third in the 300 hurdles in a time of 38.43 seconds

The Royals girls 4×1600 relay team of Samara Shalhoub, Autumn Richardson, Layla Llewellyn and Elsie Tuttle came in fourth place.

Dos Pueblos boys 4×1600 finished in third place in the 1600. Cullen Gully, Owen Abbott, Ashton Smedley and Ian McMurtry finished in a time of 17:13.43.

The Dos Pueblos distance medley relay team set a school record finishing in third place in the DMR at the Arcadia Invitational. Ashton Smedley led off in the 1200 meter leg, Kellan Cotter ran the 400, Cullen Gulley the 800, and Owen Abbott the 1600. Their final time was 10:07.34.

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Mike Klan

CORVALLIS, Oregon. (KEYT) – Cal Poly has outscored Oregon State 5-0 in the first inning so far this weekend. It’s the remaining eight frames that have given the Mustangs some trouble.

The host Beavers, who rallied from a 2-0 deficit for a 6-4 victory Friday night, registered another come-from-behind win Saturday, turning a 3-0 shortfall into an 11-6 triumph.

The two wins inside Goss Stadium at Coleman Field clinched the three-game non-conference baseball series for the No. 7-ranked Beavers (27-7) with one more contest to be played Sunday afternoon.

Cal Poly (18-15) has been outscored 17-7 from the second through ninth innings in suffering its eighth loss in the Mustangs’ last 12 games.

Third baseman Alejandro Garza continued his hot streak at the plate with a one-out solo home run in the first inning and, three batters later, left fielder Xander McLaurin added a two-run double to left-center field for a quick 3-0 Mustang lead.

Oregon State, however, scored the next eight runs of the game for an 8-3 cushion. Cal Poly made one last run with a three-run sixth-inning rally. Designated hitter Gavin Spiridonoff doubled down the right-field line for one RBI and the other runs came courtesy of wild pitches.

The Beavers pulled away again with two runs in the sixth and one more in the eighth.

Garza went 3-for-5 at the plate with one RBI and one run scored. The junior has four multiple-hit games in his last five starts and nine of his last 14, a team-leading 16 multiple-hit contests for the year, and has lifted his batting average 80 points to .349 over his last 14 games.

McLaurin, Spiridonoff and catcher Ryan Tayman each added two hits as Cal Poly outhit Oregon State 10-9. Both of McLaurin’s hits were doubles and he has lifted his batting average 60 points to .310 since and including his 7-for-13, four-RBI performance in the UC Riverside series two weeks ago

Oregon State powered its way to victory with three home runs. First baseman Bryson Glassco smashed a two-run shot in the fourth and a three-run blast in the fifth while third baseman Paul Vazquez added a two-run homer in the second. Glassco now has five home runs and Vazquez six.

Second baseman AJ Singer knocked in three runs with a pair of doubles and designated hitter Bryce Hubbard also had two hits for Oregon State.

Southpaw Ethan Kleinschmit (6-2) earned the victory, though he allowed five runs and six hits over 5 1/3 innings with eight strikeouts. The loss was charged to right-hander Carson Turnquist (2-2), who gave up four runs and four hits in 3 1/3 innings of work on the mound.

Following Friday’s 1-hour, 45-minute weather delay due to lightning in the third inning, Saturday’s game also was delayed, this time in the sixth inning for 40 minutes because of lightning strikes. Rain fell from the fifth inning through the end of Saturday’s contest.

Sunday’s series finale begins at 1:05 p.m. Cal Poly will start freshman right-hander Corden Pettey (2-2, 4.75 ERA) while Oregon State will go with junior righty Eric Segura (3-1, 1.50 ERA).

(Courtesy of Cal Poly Athletics)

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Mike Klan

UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – The UC Santa Barbara Baseball team (21-11, 9-5 Big West) went all 12 rounds with UC San Diego (15-15, 11-3 Big West) — well, actually just 11 — as Saturday afternoon turned to evening, outlasting the Tritons in a nearly five-hour slugfest thanks to Xavier Esquer’s 11th-inning walk-off RBI single. The Gauchos evened up this weekend’s three-game series with their 11-10 victory, with freshman Josh Jannicelli picking up his well-deserved first collegiate win with three clutch relief innings on the mound.

QUOTABLEFrom head coach Andrew Checketts: “It’s actually funny because before the weekend — Coach Newman and I have a good relationship and we were talking about the weekend — we said they’ll probably win the low-scoring game and we’ll probably win the high-scoring game because they’ve scored runs and had trouble keeping runs off the board and we have kept runs off the board but had trouble putting them up,” Checketts said. “He was right so far, they won the low-scoring affair, we won the high-scoring affair, which isn’t exactly how both teams typically win, so it would be nice to score a bunch tomorrow and not give up very many.

I thought Josh Jannicelli was awesome today. He came in with a runner on second and nobody out, was able to get that thing stopped, and then pitched fantastic. That was his first collegiate win, so that was certainly a highlight for the bullpen.”

HOW IT HAPPENEDThe teams spent the first few innings feeling each other out before Santa Barbara delivered the first big blow of the day, Nate Vargas’ two-run home run to straightaway center field. UC San Diego answered with a right jab of an RBI double in the top of the fourth as haymakers started to fly in both directions.

Mitch Namie landed a left hook with an RBI double to left center in the fourth, his first extra-base hit and RBI as a Gaucho. William Vasseur came through with a jab of an RBI single in the fifth, then Corey Nunez’s big right cross of a double down the right field line added another run. Vasseur was alert to a bad throw back in on the play and took the opportunity to scamper home, and with a 6-1 lead, Santa Barbara seemed to have their visitors on the ropes.

But Tritons surged off the mat in the sixth, coming through with an RBI single and a sacrifice fly. Those two body shots not only cut the lead to three, but they also set up the first big uppercut, a two-out, two-RBI double to left center that made the score 6-5.

After both teams’ swings found nothing but leather in the sixth, the Gauchos got a jab through the Triton defense to extend their lead in the seventh, with Jonathan Mendez’s opposite-field single making the score 7-5.

Yet again, UC San Diego responded by coming up swinging. The Tritons landed the biggest punch of the day in the eighth, a two-out grand slam to take their first lead of the game, 9-7. Back-to-back doubles to start the ninth constituted a pair of left hooks and put the Gauchos right up against the ropes, down 10-7 with just three outs to play with.

Taking a lesson from their opponents, Santa Barbara swung its way off the mat. Jonathan Mendez started the inning with a huge right cross, a line-drive home run over the wall in left field. Then the Gauchos got scrappy. Max Stagg’s hustle to first base broke up what would have been a game-ending double play, and Santa Barbara made the most of its extra life. Rowan Kelly legged out an infield single to make the score 10-9, then Jack Haferkamp, who entered the game as a pinch runner, came home on a wild pitch, just narrowly beating the tag to earn his squad a ticket to extra innings.

Jannicelli had struck out the side after those back-to-back doubles in the top of the ninth, truly the first punches in Santa Barbara’s fightback. He was back out and back at it in the 10th, picking up two more K’s in a perfect frame. After the Gauchos went in order in their half of the 10th, Jannicelli again kept the Tritons from landing any punches. He did hit a batter, but he left him stranded at second. When Santa Barbara got themselves a runner at second thanks to Nunez’s lead-off single and a textbook bunt from Stagg, they made sure not to waste their window of opportunity. Esquer landed the knockout blow, a two-out single back up the middle for the Gauchos’ first walk-off of the season.

UP NEXTSanta Barbara’s victory sets up a rubber match on Sunday, with the winner taking the series. First pitch is set for 1:05 p.m. from Caesar Uyesaka Stadium, with Kellan Montgomery scheduled to take the mound for the Gauchos. Tickets are on sale now at ucsbgauchos.com/tickets.

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Tracy Lehr

OXNARD, Calif. (KEYT) Boating season kicks off with opening day celebrations in harbors up and down the coast.

One of the first took place today at the Pacific Corinthian Yacht Club in the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard on Saturday afternoon.

The sunny day featured a formal ceremony that will be followed by a boat parade on Sunday, rain or shine.

Sam Peck has been a PCYC member for more than three decades.

The Staff Commodore said Opening Days started at yacht clubs in New York.

“What it means is that ice has melted in the waters and it is time for the boating season to begin and it is followed throughout the United States,” said Peck, ” Even though we don’t have icy water here, we follow the tradition.”

Commodores are often invited to attend other club’s opening days, like the one being held at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club, that includes a race, on Saturday, April 18.

The PCYC celebration included live music and food.

Volunteers with the non profit Pacific Corinthian Youth Foundation also took part,

They posed for photos by a sailboat that will be used to teach kids how to sail this summer..

Summer Camps run from June through August.

For more information visit https://pcyfsailing.org and https://pcyc.org

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Tracy Lehr

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) Ventura County Farms welcomed visitors on Saturday.

More than 15 farms, ranches, and agricultural organizations took part in the 13th annual Ventura County Farm Day.

Duda Farm Fresh Foods invited people to check out their location near the corner of Harbor and Olivas Park Drive in Ventura.

Duda gave out free bags of celery.

They also invited Plantel of Orcutt to give out plants.

“Duda had us out here to give out garden starts, and it went great, thousands of people came through, we gave out thousand of plants, I know Duda was able to give away hundreds of harvested plants, I think everyone came out today and had a good time and learned a lot about agriculture,” said Zealand Davis.

SEEAG students, including Aurora Arellano, volunteered.

The Rio Mesa High School senior said she is heading to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the fall to study Environmental Earth and Soil Sciences.

Oxnard Historic Farm Park, on Gottfried Pl., also opened its gates to welcome visitors on Farm Day.

The park had tours, live music, food and demonstrations.

Forrest Weatherhead has been volunteering for a decade.

The son of a printer showed kids how to make bookmarks.

“My dad had a print shop, so I bring the kids around and I show them how to use a proof press,” said Weatherhead.

Visitors saw farm equipment and a wine making cellar.

Master gardeners also shared their expertise and tips.

Thanks to donations the Historic Farm Park has a lot of new things to see.

Farm Day is free .

Growers said another farm day in Santa Barbara County will be held in the fall.

For more information visit https://www.oxnardfarmpark.org and https://vcfarmday.org and https://sbcfarmday.org and https://seeag.org

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