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Mike Klan

UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Beat LA!

The Gauchos go to Los Angeles and knock off top-ranked UCLA 4-0 to snap the Bruins remarkable 27-game win streak.

“Midweeks are different,” began UCSB head coach Andrew Checketts. “I don’t want to downplay it, our guys did a really good job — midweeks are obviously different than weekends. You see a lot of upsets that happen, but our guys played well and that’s a good team. I think we’ve got a good team, and it’s not very often you get to play the number-one ranked team in the country at their place and win.”

UCSB has the top pitching earned run average in the country and they limit mighty UCLA to just five hits.

The Bruins had outscored their opponents 255-85 during this win streak but they are shutout for the first time this year.

UCLA came close to scoring in the bottom of the first inning off of Gauchos starter Calvin Proskey.

With the bases loaded and two-outs, Bruins standout Will Gasparino lined a ball down the left-field line but Colin Beazizo made a diving catch to end the inning, most likely saving three runs on the web gem.

Rowan Kelly staked UCSB to a 2-0 lead with a single to left-center to drive in Cole Kosciusko and Xavier Esquer.

After Proskey pitched 3 scoreless innings in just his second start on the season, AJ Krodel came in and fired 3.1 innings of 2-hit shutout relief striking out 4.

From there Cole Tryba dazzled with an 8-out save which included working out of a bases-loaded jam with a strikeout of Bruins superstar Roch Chowlowsky.

The Gauchos added two insurance runs in the top of the eight inning on an RBI double by William Vasseur to plate Kelly and an RBI single from Beazizo.

Tryba pitched a 1,2,3 ninth inning to earn his second save on the season and he finished with five strikeouts.

The win is Santa Barbara’s first over the nation’s No. 1 team since March 3, 2020, when they beat UCLA, 8-5, at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.

UCSB improves to 23-11 on the year while UCLA suffers just their third loss on the year (33-3) and first setback since February 24th.

UCLA is at UCSB on Tuesday, April 28th at 4:35 p.m.

(UCSB Athletics contributed to this article).

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Tracy Lehr

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) The Wild & Free Film Festival held its first Spring kick-off event in Goleta.

Movie lovers filled Camino Real Cinemas in Goleta to see 8 short adventure films.

The founder of the festival called it the Kendal Mountain Tour.

Gareth Kelly chose films featured in a similar festival in the United Kingdom.

“There’s a couple of films tonight that really remind me of where I grew up, there is one about Fell running, which is people that go run around in the hills, and there is one about skateboarding young girls, and there is even one about surfing grandmas in Australia, so there is a little bit of something for everyone,” said Kelly.

The second annual Wild & Free Film Festival will take place in the fall.

Thanks to sponsors including Santa Barbara Honda and Santa Barbara Acura the festival has been able to host more events.

For more information visit https://www.wildandfreefilm.org

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Tracy Lehr

VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) Business owners are urging the Ventura City Council to reopen Main Street.

They packed Tuesday’s Ventura City Council.

They held protest signs and shared their stories during public comments.

Some of them said the closure put the Main Street locations out of business.

“It just really changed out whole business model and we were not able to survive that i am all for supporting everybody in their quest to get the streets reopened,” said Shannon Rice.

Alessandro Tromba of Immigrant Son said his cafe is doing well, but he said that is not the case with surrounding businesses.

“It was a really important band-aid when COVID happened, we were promised it was going to 12-weeks but it started feeling like Gilligan’s Island, you know, it was supposed to be a 3-hour tour and here we are 5 and a half years later,” Tromba.

Diego Gamba of Bombay Bar & Grill would like the council to rethink the closure before it is too, late.

“We should just reopen the street, we tried for 5 years, we all pushed it, but it effectively killed downtown,” said Gamba.

Others said they have noticed business dropping off on Mondays through Fridays.

“We would really love to see our locals come back and I think that the closure has run its course,” said Briana Critelli.

The council voted 6-1 last fall to maintain the 5 block closure on Main Street and 1 block closure on California Street that is known as “Main Street Moves.”

It is not clear if the council will reconsider that vote.

For more information visit https://www.cityofventura.ca.gov

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Caleb Nguyen

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – A woman died after a single-car crash on Highway 166 near Riconada Ranch just before 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.

A three-year-old child also needed medical transport to Marian Regional Medical Center following the crash, according to the SBCFD.

Authorities pronounced the woman dead at the scene. For more information, contact the SLO County Sheriff’s Office.

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John Palminteri

CARPINTERIA, Calif. (KEYT) – The City of Carpinteria does not have any cannabis farms within its limits but angry residents fed up with odors are taking in all the air impacts, which may be changing soon.

A Santa Barbara County deadline to install multi carbon technology or “scrubbers” to filter the odors out has been missed by nine operators.

The sites were visited by inspections on April 1st and 2nd.

On April 3rd, letters went out to revoke the cannabis business licenses.

According to Daisy Weber with Supervisor Roy Lee’s office, the businesses that failed were:

– Blue Whale Agriculture, Inc.
– K&G Flowers, LLC

– Bosim 1628 Management Company, LLC
– Life Remedy Farms, Inc.

– Bronco Management, LLC
– New Generation Farms, Inc.

– CKC Farms, Inc.
– Pacific Grown Organics, LLC

– G&K Produce, LLC

The Board of Supervisors required the scrubbers in March under a new ordinance.

Other methods to reduce the odors had failed after years of issues and complaints to the county and even city leaders who did not have a direct legal option to respond.

Supervisor Lee, district representative and a former councilmember, said he believed the operators had enough time and “enough was enough.”

There is now an appeal option for operators to present evidence relating to their lack of compliance. In some cases it could be supply chain delays.

If not appeal is filed in ten days, the license is officially revoked.

The operator will be able to continue business during the appeal. That hearing is required to take place in 60 days and the appeal hearing officer has 30 days to issue a determination.

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Caleb Nguyen

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) – A woman and her dog died in a house fire at the 5000 block of Amberly Place just before 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to the SBCFD.

Neighbors said she was in her late 80s and on oxygen.

Your News Channel spoke to SBCFD Battalion Chief Adam Estabrook, who confirmed the two fatalities in the incident.

He said crews arrived within 5 minutes.

“We started an attack on the fire we made an entry we searched and we found the victim inside the fire it was too late though that individual had passed away in the fire before we could rescue them we also had a report that multiple pets we weren’t able to rescue all,” said Estabrook.

They did rescue cats.

Before fireman arrived a neighbor save one of her big dogs.

Police chaplains comforted the woman’s daughter while investigators went to work.

Another neighbor who lives in a home behind the house came by to say he saw flames reignite and coming from a TV inside the charred home.

A fire crew returned and quickly made sure that fire was out.

“It is a tough day, it is tough we did put a fire attack on the scene sometimes in these situations unfortunate things happen,” said Estabrook.

The SBCFD advised all residents and drivers to avoid the area to ensure emergency vehicles had clear access during the fire response.

More information on the fire will be provided as it becomes available to Your News Channel.

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Jarrod Zinn

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – A Santa Maria man has been reunited with his five-year-old daughter who was held in an ICE detention facility for 20 hours with her mom.

His wife remains in holding in Texas.

Milenko Faria moved to Santa Maria in 2017 after fleeing Venezuela, and his asylum case is pending after nearly a decade.

“Nothing is easy in Venezuela,” says Milenko Faria, who lives in Santa Maria. “So, for example, to get a passport it takes months, years. And also, if your opinion is very high against the government, they cancel your passport.”

He and his wife Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar, another Venezuelan, had their 5-year-old daughter in Santa Maria, and she is a U.S. citizen.

“She was born in Santa Maria,” says Faria. “Yeah. She was born in Marian hospital.”

An attorney for Dr. Bolivar says she has been lawfully in the u.s. under a work visa, and has her own pending asylum case during her residency in an underserved community in southern Texas.

“She has started, like, as a medical assistant, you know, and then she was I am an interpreter at the hospital,” says Faria. “She was a Spanish interpreter.”

Dr. Bolivar had their five year old daughter with her at a Texas airport, and they were about to board a flight back to Santa Maria.

They were going to be present in support for Milenko’s upcoming asylum hearing in Tustin.

“At the airport, she was question by the CBP,” says Faria.

Dr. Bolivar tried to show she had a right to be in the US, but agents disagreed.

“She shows them the work permit,” says Faria. “We have our work permit current until—hers is until 2030. Mine is until 2029. And they are like, “oh, this is from Venezuela. These are like—Venezuelan documents are not valid.” Which is not true.”

A relative traveled from Florida to Texas to bring the child back to Santa Maria.

“My daughter, she was detained for 19 hours because—since four in the morning until, like, past 9:00 pm, she was detained,” says Faria. “She was scared, you know. And that’s not good, that. She should be like just thinking, ‘What am I going to play with?’ You know?”

Customs and Border Protection provided your Newschannel with the following statement.

“On April 11, 2026, Rubeliz Bolivar was taken into custody at McAllen Airport. She has overstayed her visa since 2017, nearly a decade, and had no legal status. She chose to place her child in the care of a relative in the area.

CBP does not separate families or deport U.S. citizens. Parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children or if they would like CBP will place the children with a safe person the parent designates. This is consistent with past administration’s immigration enforcement.

Parents, who are here illegally, can take control of their departure with the CBP Home App. The United States is offering aliens illegal aliens $2,600 and a free flight to self-deport now. We encourage every person here illegally to take advantage of this offer and reserve the chance to come back to the U.S. the right legal way to live American dream. If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return.”

Milenko said that while he doesn’t want to say too much too soon, there does seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel. And his wife says she is not being mistreated in any way.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – The war in Iran, Oil Prices skyrocketing, Sudden Changes in Leadership… these are the topics making recent headlines and we want to talk about it. Former Santa Barbara City Councilman Dale Francisco and former State Representative Hannah Beth Jackson join us for a LIVE conversation.

Drop your questions, comments, opinons in the chat box below.

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John Palminteri

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – The sweeping coastal bluff known as “More Mesa” has a large section of just over 200 acres that is privately owned and could be developed in the future.

The More Mesa Preservation Coalition (MMPC ) is working to raise money to preserve the area. Some of the area is an environmentally sensitive habitat.

The group says there is increasing pressure to possibly rezone the area or open up space for housing, especially with new state demands.

They say protection, including those under the Coastal Act, could be weakened. A large section is currently for sale for $65 million.

The MMPC wants the area preserved for hikers, walkers, bikers, equestrians and many others who enjoy this open space.

Recently they held a concert at the Lobero Theatre with the Doublewide Kings. About 650 people attended in a sold out show.

A short film about More Mesa was shown and an introduction helped the participants learn about what the status is and the uniqueness of the area.

For more information go to: More Mesa

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Mike Klan

UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Some of the top high school basketball players in the country took the court at the Thunderdome for the Oakland Soldiers AAU Showcase.

Highlighting the afternoon was the jersey retirement of NBA top prospect AJ Dybantsa. The former Soldier starred at BYU as a freshman this past season.

Last October the club expanded and opened up a Central Coast Soldiers branch led by coach Darnell Campbell.

(AJ Dybantsa (second on the left) shared his journey with the youth players during a Q&A session. Entenza Design).

He also judged a slam dunk contest won by professional dunker Chris Staples over high school player Brevynn Montana. Staples jumped over Dybantsa for his winning slam that received a perfect 10 score across the board.

In the three-point contest final high school player Trevor Dickson edged UCSB senior guard Aidan Mahaney 9-8.

Dybantsa signed some autographs for the young players and fans on his way out of the Thunderdome.

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