
	The Ventura County Star is a newspaper published in Camarillo, California.

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	It was founded in 1925 by the John P. Scripps Newspaper Group, which merged with E. W. Scripps in 1986.

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	Around 1936, the Star acquired the Ventura Free Press (which was founded in 1875), and began publishing as the Ventura County Star-Free Press in 1938. It dropped the Free-Press addition in November 1994.

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	It is now owned by the E. W. Scripps Company.
