A man is in custody after a fatal stabbing in Simi Valley on Saturday morning, police confirmed. Simi Valley police responded to an in-progress incident at 8:43 a.m. in the area of East Pinecrest Street and North Justin Avenue. According to authorities, it was a family disturbance that escalated to a stabbing by knife. The victim, who has yet to be publicly identified, died at a local hospital ..read more

   Gayle Anderson explores the new exhibition “STAR WARS AND SDI: DEFENDING AMERICA AND THE GALAXY.” SDI, Strategic Defense Initiative, was a President Ronald Reagan plan to develop a space-based missile defense program to protect the country from a large-scale nuclear attack. Media and public reaction were negative, and the program was “clowned” and sarcastically nicknamed “Star Wars” since it seemed impossible as the events of a galaxy far, far away.    According to “The Atlantic”, Lucasfilm sued several on both sides of the political aisle, for releasing press releases ..read more

A man was arrested for allegedly disrobing and threatening customers with a knife at a Simi Valley gym on Saturday night. The suspect was identified as Jhovan Rojo, 31, by the Simi Valley Police Department. Officers responded to a Planet Fitness located on the 2800 block of East Cochran Street at around 5 p.m. Rojo entered the gym’s locker room and shower area, took off his clothing and remained armed with a knife, police said. At one point, he allegedly brandished the knife at a bystander who ran out of the locker room and called the police. Arriving officers found Rojo inside the shower area ..read more

A Simi Valley man was sentenced Wednesday after stabbing his girlfriend over 30 times and assaulting her mother. Euren Balbuena, 33, faces 33 years to life in prison for three felony convictions, including the murder of his girlfriend Zaira Patino-Trejo, 31, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. On Feb. 27, 2020, Balbuena and his girlfriend got into an argument inside their Simi Valley apartment.  Aware of a history of domestic violence in the relationship, the victim's mother went to the couple’s apartment when she couldn’t get ahold of her daughter, authorities sai ..read more

A woman was forcefully assaulted and robbed in her Simi Valley driveway Monday night, police say. The woman arrived home and parked in her driveway in the 5200 block of Indian Hills Drive at about 9:35 p.m., the Simi Valley Police Department said in a news release. As she got out of her car and checked her mail, a man "pushed the victim to the ground and took her purse by force," police said. That man then jumped into a waiting blue sedan and fled the scene headed east on Indian Hills Drive. He is described as being about 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighing 160 pounds, and he was wearing a ski ..read more

A Simi Valley man accused of stabbing his girlfriend more than 30 times and assaulting her mother has been found guilty of murder. Euren Balbuena, 32, was convicted by a Ventura County jury on Tuesday. The jury found Balbuena guilty of using a knife to kill his girlfriend, Zaira Patino-Trejo, as well as inflicting "great bodily injury" to her mother. He was found not guilty on a separate charge for attempted murder of the mother. According to the Ventura County District Attorney's Office, on Feb. 27, 2020, Balbuena and Patino-Trejo were in the middle of an argument at their apartment in Simi V ..read more

Seven Republican presidential hopefuls gathered at the Reagan Library in California on Wednesday for the second of the party’s primary debates. The contest's dominant front-runner — former President Donald Trump — skipped the event again. With less than four months until the Iowa caucuses officially jumpstart the GOP nomination process, the pressure is building on Trump's rivals to show they can emerge as a genuine alternative. Here are some takeaways from the debate: DeSantis hits Trump Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had an aggressive start, using his first answer to criticize Trump for skipping t ..read more

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Several of Donald Trump’s rivals stepped up their attacks against him in Wednesday’s second Republican presidential debate, urgently trying to dent the former president's commanding primary lead during an event that often seemed like an undercard without him. Trump went to Michigan, aiming to capitalize on the autoworkers’ strike in a key state that could help decide the general election. His competitors, meanwhile, were asked by Fox Business moderators at the Ronald Reagan library in California to participate in a reality show-style game where they would write who e ..read more

Gayle Anderson reports on the extension of the exhibition Auschwitz, Not Long Ago. Not Far Away at the Reagan Presidential Library Museum in Simi Valley. The exhibition was scheduled to close at the end of August but due to the tremendous public response, the only West Coast venue, the exhibition is extended to Jan. 28, 2024. According to the Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, the exhibition brings together more than 700 original objects of great historic and human value; objects which were direct witnesses of the horrors of Auschwitz and the Holocaust. These objects serve as the guiding ..read more

A Southern California woman fell to her death while hiking a steep, craggy peak in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park on Friday. Park rangers say Joy Cho of Simi Valley was hiking with seven other people when she fell off the west side of Teewinot Mountain in the early morning. She died at the scene, and her body was flown from the area by helicopter. National Park Service officials did not say how old Cho was, what caused her to fall or how far she fell. Teewinot, a popular destination for mountaineers, is an exposed peak that reaches 12,325 feet (3,757 meters) above sea level ..read more