DIFFERING PATHS: Prosecutor Peter Kossoris and public...

DIFFERING PATHS: Prosecutor Peter Kossoris and public defender Richard Holly will square off in the trial of accused cop killer Daniel Allen Tuffree (B1). . . . The philosophical chasm between the two has been years in the making. Holly, who was born in Berkeley, read Jack Kerouac at 20, then quit college “to find America.” . . . Kossoris decried the liberalism of Berkeley, where he went to law school in the ‘60s: “I used to watch the free-speech protests and tell my wife that if my kids ever did that, I would cut off all support.”

DAYS OF OUR LIVES: Calendars are big business, thanks to the wide range of subjects--everything from swimsuit pinups to Miss Manners (E1). . . . Only 2% of U.S. households don’t own calendars, according to an industry group, and those who buy them have virtually thousands of choices. Locally, calendar buyers can soak up some area scenery, with date books available on Ventura, the Channel Islands and tides. . . . Local calendars outsell others by almost 10 to 1, says Ed Elrod of the Ventura Bookstore.

BEAUTIFUL BABY: Five-year-old Nashay Matthews of Oxnard has been in hundreds of beauty pageants (B1). “She doesn’t win every pageant she enters, but she holds her own,” says her mother, Zoraetta Matthews. . . . But it takes more than beauty to win. It’s “not like it was 25 years ago,” says pageant producer Sue Doster. “Then, you’d line them up and pick the prettiest face. . . . The child [who wins today] is up there having a good time.”

KCLU NEEDS YOU: Ventura County’s year-old public radio station, KCLU at Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, amassed enough from a recent membership drive to keep the station going another year. . . . KCLU, which receives no federal funds, raised $29,500, topping its goal of $25,000. But it takes 10 times the goal to run KCLU. . . . Much of the cost is subsidized by Cal Lutheran, but that won’t last forever. Said the station’s Mary Olson: “Somebody has got to support us, and that somebody is you.”