ANTELOPE VALLEY: BRIEFLY : POWER FAILURE HITS 3,000 USERS.PALMDALE - Some 3,000 homes and businesses went without power for about 30 minutes Friday morning, as Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. officials repaired two faulty circuits, officials said. ``The equipment failure may be due to high winds we've had in the area lately,'' said Southern California Edison area manager Denise Henderson. Three crews restored service by 11:15 a.m., Henderson said. SOURCE: - Daily News Inmate stabbed in state prison LANCASTER - A 26-year-old prison inmate remained in stable but guarded condition Friday from a stab wound suffered a day earlier, prison officials said. The California State Prison - Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County inmate, a convicted rapist rap·ist n. One who commits rape. Noun 1. rapist - someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse raper aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker - someone who attacks whose name was not released pending notification of relatives, suffered a punctured lung. He was transported to Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital at 3:45 p.m. Thursday after he reported the stabbing to medical staff, prison officials said. Prison spokesman Dean Crenshaw cren·shaw also cran·shaw n. A variety of winter melon (Cucumis melo var. inodorus) having a greenish-yellow rind and sweet, usually salmon-pink flesh. [Origin unknown.] said the man was stabbed with a pin-shape, 8-inch-long handmade weapon, found by guards on the maximum security grounds shortly after the stabbing. ``We are continuing to investigate to determine who the assailant was,'' said Crenshaw. SOURCE: - Daily News Pilotless plane makes first flight EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - The Air Force's DarkStar reconnaissance plane made its first flight Friday, spending 20 minutes in the air controlled by on-board On board usually means to be traveling on some vehicle. For example, Baby On Board. Compare with overboard. Metaphorically, the term on-board is often used to refer to some piece of technology that is integrated in a moving vehicle, for example: Friday's flight marked the start of a flight-test program to evaluate the pilotless airplane's basic performance, including its high-resolution radar and video systems that will transmit images to battlefield commanders. Wide, flat and tailless, DarkStar is intended to patrol for more than eight hours over heavily defended areas at up to about 45,000 feet altitude - some two miles higher than airliners cruise. SOURCE: - Daily News |
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