Fire burns along the Pacific Coast Highway close to Naval Base Ventura County, California on May 3, 2013. A wildfire burning through coastal wilderness in the US state of California has nearly doubled in size since Friday morning, growing to almost 18,000 acres. A Ventura County fire spokesman said the fire is burning new fuel in mostly unpopulated canyons, and that fire officials have managed to contain... 

When the 20 agents arrived bearing a search warrant at her Ventura County farmhouse door at 7 a.m. on a Wednesday a couple weeks back, Sharon Palmer didn’t know what to say. This was the third time she was being raided in 18 months, and she had thought she was on her way to resolving the problem over labeling of her goat cheese that prompted the other two raids. (In addition to producing goat’s...