SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - UC Santa Barbara is expanding access to higher education by bringing a new bachelor’s degree program directly into Corcoran State Prison in California’s Central Valley.

Through the initiative, UCSB will offer undergraduate coursework in the humanities to incarcerated students as part of a full four-year degree pathway. The program is designed to run over six academic quarters and will combine remote teaching with occasional in-person instruction from university faculty.

University leaders report the goal is to broaden educational opportunity behind bars and give students tools to continue their studies and prepare for life after incarceration.

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ORCUTT, Calif. (KEYT) - St. Joseph High School in Orcutt is under scrutiny from the County of Santa Barbara due to stray softballs entering the adjacent Knollwood Terrace residents’ yards and causing damage.

As it turns out, Santa Barbara County’s Planning and Development Department has confirmed St. Joseph High School never applied for a permit to build the new softball field.

One resident of Knollwood Estates has collected over 20 softballs, and another has collected at least 30.

Some spectators of the high school’s gameplay have been able to pet a dog who is secured in the backyard.

Residents say these errant softballs have broken roof tiles, potted plants, one broke a window, and one grazed the ponytail of a resident’s granddaughter who was playing in the backyard, a near-miss that could have been an injury.

The Knollwood Terrace Homeowners Association has asked the school to hold gameplay until mitigation measures were in place, and say they were met with refusal. 

The HOA has since issued formal complaints, and St. Joseph High School submitted a retroactive application for approval of the field in December, 2025.

Knollwood HOA board member David Whitham says if the county had been part of the process, they would’ve required 15-foot setbacks from all adjacent properties, but some residents report a 3-foot setback.

Whitham says the county did require the school to extend the safety net fences, but due to a delay in shipment of materials, they’ll be placed after the current season is over.

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Por Hadas Gold, CNN

Un jurado de Oakland, California, dictaminó este lunes que Elon Musk tardó demasiado en demandar a OpenAI y a sus directivos. Tras unos 90 minutos de deliberación, el jurado determinó que la demanda que presentó estaba prescrita.

Musk ayudó a cofundar y financiar OpenAI, aportando US$ 38 millones en sus primeros años. Demandó al CEO Sam Altman, al presidente de la compañía, Greg Brockman, y a OpenAI en febrero de 2024, alegando que “robaron una organización benéfica” al adoptar una estructura que incluye una rama con fines de lucro.

Microsoft fue incluida como codemandada por “ayudar e instigar” las acusaciones a través de sus inversiones en OpenAI. Musk dejó OpenAI en 2018 y fundó su propia empresa de IA, xAI, en 2023.

El caso de Musk amenazaba con descarrilar al creador de ChatGPT, que planeaba una salida a bolsa que prometía ser un éxito rotundo. El veredicto del jurado representa una victoria para OpenAI y sus fundadores, Altman y Brockman.

En este caso, el jurado actuó en calidad de asesor, sin tener la última palabra. Sin embargo, la jueza Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers indicó que su decisión coincidiría con la del jurado.

“Creo que hay una cantidad sustancial de pruebas que respaldan el veredicto del jurado”, le dijo la jueza al abogado de Musk este lunes.

Esta noticia está en desarrollo y se actualizará.

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By Hadas Gold, Samantha Delouya, CNN

(CNN) — Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its leaders, a jury in Oakland, California, decided on Monday. A lawsuit he filed was barred by the statute of limitations, the jury found after about 90 minutes of deliberation.

Musk helped cofound and fund OpenAI, giving $38 million in its early years. He sued CEO Sam Altman, company president Greg Brockman, and OpenAI in February 2024, alleging that they “stole a charity” when they shifted to a structure that includes a for-profit arm.

Microsoft was named as a codefendant for “aiding and abetting” the claims through its investments in OpenAI. Musk left OpenAI in 2018 and started his own AI company, xAI, in 2023.

“I was a fool,” he told the court earlier this month. “I gave them free funding to create a startup.”

The jury in this case served in an advisory capacity, rather than having the final say. However, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers indicated that her decision would align with the jury’s.

“I think that there’s a substantial amount of evidence to support the jury’s finding,” she said to Musk’s attorney on Monday.

Musk’s case threatened to derail the ChatGPT maker as it planned what could be a blockbuster IPO. The jury’s decision is a win for OpenAI and its founders, Altman and Brockman.

OpenAI, for its part, claimed that Musk waited to file the suit until he founded his own competing artificial intelligence company. The jury agreed, finding that Musk was aware of the behavior discussed in the lawsuit as early as 2021.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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