The Fifth Annual Santa Maria Pride Event took place today at the Santa Maria Fair Park.
The event featured a beer garden, resource fair, makers market and live entertainment.
Governor Gavin Newsom announced a series of appointment on Tuesday including Elizabeth Chess of Ventura to the 31st District Agricultural Association as well as Alyson Guerra of Santa Maria and Todd Ventura of Santa Maria both to the 37th District Agricultural Association, Santa Maria Fair Board.
Santa Maria Fairpark to be site of jury selection in MS-13 murder trials
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Jury selection for the murder trial involving alleged members of the MS-13 gang will take place at the Santa Maria Fair Park.
As first reported by our media partners at Noozhawk, hundreds of people are expected to be summoned.
The arrests were made as part of a months-long investigation that ended with a massive sweep in the early morning hours of March 3, 2016. Authorities arrested more than a dozen people and detained about 40 others in what was known as Operation Matador.
Multiple arrest warrants were executed simultaneously by over 150 police officers, deputies and federal agents in Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, Kern County and in Columbus, Ohio.