Looks like the top local news story of the day will again be the Oxnard gang injunction. Today's the deadline for injunction opponents to appeal the judge's decision to make the injunction against Colonia Chiques permanent. If there's no appeal, then the injunction becomes permanent. Staff writer Marjorie Hernandez (mhernandez@VenturaCountyStar.com) continues to be our lead reporter on the story. On Sunday, The Star had an editorial regarding the injunction that has elicited some fascinating conversations from readers under the comments section. They're worth your reading.

The other story that stirred interest this morning at our news budget meeting was the Wall Street Journal piece from this morning that Univision, the Spanish-language broadcaster based in Los Angeles, is frequently No. 1 in attracting 18- to 34-year-old viewers in prime time this year, beating the Big Four: ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. It's a fascinating story and we're talking about how we want to play it for you in tomorrow's paper.

The other wire story up for discussion this morning was the freeway shootings on the 405 and 210 freeways over the weekend. There have been a series of them recently and, of course, many of us spend a great deal of time on those LA freeways. Again, we're talking about how we want to frame that story for you.

Locally, we have two candidates for Page One tomorrow. One is a piece by education writer John Scheibe (jscheibe@VenturaCountyStar.com) on the rising costs of college textbooks ... students pay an average of $900 a year according to one study. He looks at the impact, particularly for our community college students who are also faced with increased fees in recent years.

And Sacramento bureau chief Timm Herdt (therdt@VenturaCountyStar.com) will report on the annual update in population. Don't know yet what the Ventura County numbers will be ... they'll be released today by the Department of Finace.

Also off the wire, we'll probably look to the guilty plea from this morning by Pfc. Lyndie English in the Abu Graib prison scandal.