Ventura County is not a bilingual community. It's multilingual. And that presents problems for those living here who don't speak the dominant languages of English and Spanish, and those offering services to those residents. Staff writer Marjorie Hernandez (mhernandez@VenturaCountyStar.com) tomorrow will have a Page One story on a new program to expand prenatal and parenting classes along with crime prevention seminars to Mixteco speakers, those who come from parts of Mexico where the language is very different from Spanish and who can become isolated in the United States because of the language barrier.

Also tomorrow we will be reporting on passage today in Congress of the highway bill and how much of the money will be coming to Ventura County projects.

In other wire stories, we're following the surprise announcement today by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist that he supports federal funding for stem cell research; we're looking at the latest arrests in Britain of bombing suspects; and the deaths in Iraq of two Marines.