SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) The Santa Barbara City Council wants to go through the process of renaming Calle Cesar Chavez.

It could go back to its prior name Salsipuedes or the community could come up with new name.

But it is not a fast process due the changes that will have to be made at Post Office and on local maps.

The council also directed staff into looking into chancing the holiday name or offering city workers a floating holiday.

Chicano Historian Michael Montenegro spoke about the need to involved the community in the process.

Neighbors along Cesar Chavez and community members will be part of the discussion process.

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GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) - Seniors Josephine Grossman and Rylie Cook each scored four goals to lead San Marcos past Dos Pueblos 15-7 and into first place in the Channel League.

The Royals are 4-0 in league and DP is 4-1.

The Chargers were led by senior standout Linnea Clapinski who tallied a game-high 5 goals.

San Marcos never trailed as Grossman and Cook scored in the opening minute of the game.

It was 3-0 Royals before Clapinski scored her first goal.

San Marcos led 8-1 at half and 12-3 at halftime.

Royals goalie Carly Grant made 11 saves as they improved to 10-3 overall.

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UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - Nate Vargas and Corey Nunez each slugged solo home runs as UCSB defeated #14 USC 5-1 in front of a sellout crowd.

Vargas was the hitting star as he was a triple shy of the cycle.

"It was awesome," Vargas said. "I'm just happy to be out there and compete with my guys. I'm glad that we were able to get a good win against a ranked team today. During my time off, I just used the time to make sure I'm staying ready so that when I did get an opportunity like today, I made the most of it.

Honestly, I think the oppo off the fence," Vargas said was his favorite at-bat of the night. "For me, that just felt like vintage me. That's what I do, and at the end of the day, I don't want to get too excited because I expect that of myself, but at the same time I want to kind of congratulate myself for putting in the work and seeing it pay off."

Last week UCSB lost at USC 7-6 so the Gauchos were able to split the season series with the home win.

Calvin Proskey pitched a scoreless first inning in his first action of 2026.

Proskey, AJ Krodel, Van Froling, Raymond Olivas and Cole Tryba — combined to allow just one unearned run.

(Proskey threw 16 pitches allowing one hit and striking out one. Entenza Design).

"The real highlight for today is Proskey being back and having an inning," UCSB head coach Andrew Checketts said. "Throwing a clean inning and looking like himself, healthy and stuff looked solid, so hopefully we can continue to extend him an inning each time he goes out or two innings and he can turn into a legitimate extra starter for us, whether that's on Tuesday or end of the weekend if we have to make a change, which I'm not anticipating, but it's a luxury to have that fourth starter.

That's what we talk about with the bullpen, is make sure you pass the baton and hold on to it. All the guys did their job, and I thought guys came in and did their job making clutch pitches with runners in scoring position and didn't allow the guy was out there before, his runs to come in. And then you know, Tryba being Tryba changes the game for us. To be able to give the ball to somebody with a lead at the end of the game and feel pretty comfortable that it's over, his last three outings have been like that. We've gotten him a lead, and it's been over."

By Eric Levenson, CNN

(CNN) — The man accused of killing seven women and discarding their remains on a stretch of Long Island, New York, over three decades is expected to plead guilty in a long-awaited court hearing Wednesday.

Rex Heuermann, a 62-year-old architect based in Massapequa, has been in custody since July 2023 and has pleaded not guilty to the murders of seven women, including four whose bodies were found on Gilgo Beach in 2010.

He is set to appear in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead at 11 a.m., per a court spokesperson.

According to a source familiar with the case, Heuermann is expected to “take responsibility” for all seven murder charges. No deal was struck with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office in exchange for this plea, according to the source.

The charges carry a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. A trial had been set for September.

Heuermann’s attorney Michael J. Brown did not respond to a CNN request for comment.

A guilty plea would represent the end of a case that dates as far back as 1993 and took decades for investigators to solve – frustrating victims’ families, who felt the investigation was not taken seriously.

The case began in earnest with the 2010 disappearance of 23-year-old Shannan Gilbert. The search for her whereabouts led to the discovery of at least 10 sets of human remains, primarily young female sex workers, along Ocean Parkway and launched the hunt for a suspected serial killer.

But the investigation went cold for over a decade. Meanwhile, the Gilgo Beach killings were featured in an acclaimed non-fiction book, a Netflix movie and true-crime documentaries.

In 2022, Suffolk County launched a multiagency task force to reexamine the killings and soon built a case against Heuermann using DNA, hairs, cell phone records and witness testimony, according to court records.

Heuermann was arrested in July 2023 and charged with the killings of three of the “Gilgo Four” victims, and prosecutors have since charged him with four more murders in incidents dating as far back as 1993.

In all, he is accused of killing seven people: Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello, Jessica Taylor, Valerie Mack and Sandra Costilla.

For the victims’ families, a guilty plea would be a relief after years of waiting for justice, said Robert Kolker, the author of “Lost Girls,” the 2013 non-fiction book about the killings.

“The point of ‘Lost Girls’ was that the killer chose his victims because he thought that they wouldn’t be missed. And the tragedy is that for many years he was right,” Kolker told CNN.

“What this new energy around the case, and the arrest, and what this possible guilty plea show is that perhaps this is changing. We understand the humanity of victims in cases like these in a way that we didn’t years ago.”

The seven victims

Over nearly two decades, a number of women in their 20s who police said worked as escorts or sex workers went missing on Long Island.

The remains of Sandra Costilla were found in North Sea in 1993. Partial remains of Valerie Mack, a 24-year-old Philadelphia mother who worked as an escort, were found in Manorville in November 2000, with further remains discovered in 2011, Read more

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) - Sean McGrath earned his first collegiate victory with five scoreless innings while Alejandro Garza notched his fourth four-hit game of the 2026 season as Cal Poly defeated San Jose State 11-4 on Tuesday inside Baggett Stadium.

A freshman right-hander, McGrath (1-2) struck out six, scattered five hits, one in each of the innings he pitched, and issued no walks before giving way to four relievers in the midweek non-conference contest. Josh Morano, Troy Cooper, Chris Downs and Arlo Pendleton each tossed an inning as Cal Poly improved to 4-1 in midweek games.

Cal Poly improved its overall mark to 18-13 with its fifth straight win over the Spartans. San Jose State fell to 13-19, losing for the seventh time in its last 10 games.

With his fifth game of three or more hits over the last three weeks, Garza has elevated his batting average 59 points to .336. The two-time All-Big West first-team honoree singled four times Tuesday, scoring twice and driving in one run in the seventh inning.

Dante Vachini, Ryan Tayman, Gavin Spiridonoff and Jake Downing all added two hits as Cal Poly outhit the visiting Spartans 16-8. One of Tayman's hits was a run-scoring double in the first inning while Spiridonoff hit his second home run of the year in the third frame, a two-run shot to left-center field.

Cal Poly sprinted to a 4-0 lead in the first inning with Tayman's double, a two-run single by Antonio Castro and a sacrifice fly by Dylan Kordic. The Mustangs added three more runs in the third frame on a run-scoring single by Kordic and Spiridonoff's two-run home run.

Garza singled leading off the sixth inning and eventually scored on a wild pitch. The Mustangs added three more in the seventh on a Spartan fielding error in the outfield and RBI singles by Garza and Cam Hoiland for an 11-1 advantage.

San Jose State scored a run in the sixth and added three unearned runs in the eighth. Alex Fernandes, Peyton Rowles and Rocco Caballero each produced two hits for the Spartans.

Suffering the loss was San Jose State starter Tyler Albanese (1-1) as the junior right-hander allowed four runs and three hits in the first inning, his only frame of the game. Spartan head coach Brad Sanfilippo used seven pitchers in the game.

Tuesday's game will be the lone meeting between the two schools this season. Another game scheduled for Feb. 17 at Excite Ballpark was rained out and will not be made up.

Cal Poly plays its next two weekend series on the road, visiting No. 7 Oregon State for three non-conference games this weekend and Big West leader UC San Diego on April 17-19.

Sandwiched between the two series will be a midweek game versus Pepperdine next Tuesday (April 14) at Baggett Stadium, starting at 5 p.m.

(Article courtesy of Cal Poly Athletics)

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