The new budget has the Waste Management board and others in its sights.

Although compromises are being made by both democrats and republicans, Senator Tony Strickland may have won a battle with the recent budget approval by the Senate.

The Valencia baseball team outslugged Simi Valley, 14-11, to win in the first round of the Valley Invitational Baseball League playoffs yesterday.

Timmy Lopes drove in four runs and was 4-for-4 with two doubles for Valencia. Garrett Adamiak drove in four runs, three with a bases-loaded double in a six-run fourth inning.

Starter Justin Hanks got win, going four innings and striking out two.

UPDATE: 6:30pm

SigAlerts cancelled on SB I-5

The CHP has cancelled a SigAlert for the southbound I-5 in the Newhall Pass, where a vehicle overturned. An earlier problem on the southbound I-5 north of Castaic has also been cleared.

2 left lanes of the southbound I-5 were blocked near Gavin Canyon, which is just north of the Newhall pass.

Two burglary suspects are in custody after sheriff's deputies set up a containment in Stevenson Ranch Wednesday afternoon.

Shortly after 1 p.m., a female resident of a home in the 26000 block of O'Hara Lane came home and found a man running out the back door. Deputies responding learned that there was not just one, but two suspects in the break-in and quickly captured one suspect near the home.