Updated: 11:30 AM Thieves tampered with the devices used to swipe credit & debit cards in dozens of its stores; customers urged to check for unauthorized transactions.

Posted: 8:42 PM The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department says in a statement that the attack Tuesday morning at Surf Beach killed 39-year-old Francisco Javier Solorio Jr. of Orcutt.

Posted: 2:20 PM Thousands of Medicare patients with severe chronic illnesses like Alzheimer's would get continuing access to rehab and other services under a proposed settlement to a national class action suit.

Updated: 11:23 AM President Obama and Governor Romney square off in third and final presidential debate. Tonight's topic focuses on Foreign Policy. WILX will continue to update with the latest.

Posted: 8:19 PM Forty-five-year-old Radcliffe F. Haughton was ordered to turn in all weapons during a hearing in which his estranged wife obtained a four-year restraining order.

Posted: 8:16 PM Oil began flowing again Monday afternoon.

Posted: 7:41 AM Cycling's governing body has agreed to strip Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and ban him for life.

Posted: 10:59 PM Cablevision Systems Corp. and AMC Networks say they have reached a settlement with Dish Network related to Voom HD Holdings.

Posted: 5:20 AM Authorities searched an airplane scheduled to depart from Los Angeles International Airport after someone called police and made a bomb threat.

Posted: 5:18 AM Authorities say two off-duty Florida law-enforcement officers have fatally shot an armed, naked woman who confronted them at a social gathering.

Posted: 5:05 AM Miami police say three people were killed when a car that was drag racing struck a sport utility vehicle.

Posted: 4:51 AM Police have found a body in the rubble of a burned bungalow belonging to a masked gunman suspected of shooting a Southern California family, killing two members.

Posted: 8:46 AM Authorities say a tour bus crashed in northwest Arizona and the driver is dead and at least four passengers are seriously hurt.

Posted: 8:44 AM The online release of files showing the Boy Scouts of America's cover-up of decades of sexual abuse has created interest among Americans who want to know who the alleged abusers are and whether people who molested them as Scouts are in the files.

Posted: 8:34 AM Police in the east Portland suburb of Gresham, Ore., say they have found the body of a young woman who vanished Tuesday on her way to work and have arrested a neighbor for investigation of aggravated murder.

Posted: 6:28 AM Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's latest Ohio campaign stop takes him to the eastern part of the battleground state.

Posted: 2:18 PM Federal safety regulators are looking into dozens of complaints that children have been trapped in Graco car seats because the buckles won't unlatch.

Posted: 5:34 PM Hundreds of files the Boy Scouts of America kept on incidents of child molestation are made public, following a decision by the Oregon Supreme Court. The so-called "perversion files" contain information from all across the U.S. from 1959 to 1985.

Posted: 10:05 PM Says most cases don't come down to liberals vs. conservatives.

Posted: 10:01 PM Slightly smaller audience compared to the first debate, but more viewers than any of the 2008 debates.

Posted: 6:47 PM Quazi Nafis was arrested Wednesday morning after a sting operation.

Posted: 3:06 PM Lance Armstrong is stepping down as chairman of his Livestrong cancer-fighting charity to it can focus on its mission instead of its founder's problems.

Posted: 2:22 PM A U.S. citizen with an Iranian passport pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy charges. He attempted to hire a man he thought was a Mexican drug dealer to kill the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.S.

Posted: 2:15 PM President Obama campaigns in Iowa and Gov. Romney is in Virginia a day after meeting for their second debate.

Posted: 10:53 PM Click through for recaps of what the candidates said about various topics during the debate.