ANTELOPE VALLEY: BRIEFLY : WILSONA DISTRICT OFFICIAL TO RESIGN.LAKE 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. - Wilsona School District board member Frank Donaldson has announced his resignation, effective Aug. 16, because he is moving out of the area, officials said. Board members will appoint a replacement for Donaldson and will likely seek applicants and make the appointment in August. Details on the application process will be announced after the board's June 20 meeting. Donaldson has been a board member since 1989. His term will expire in December 1997. SOURCE: - Daily News Youth to be tried as adult in shooting SYLMAR - A 17-year-old Inglewood boy was found unfit Friday to be tried as a juvenile in the shooting of a mother of two, who was accosted ac·cost tr.v. ac·cost·ed, ac·cost·ing, ac·costs 1. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. 2. To solicit for sex. outside her Lancaster town home as she went to her garage to get a vacuum cleaner. Demarie Mackey was facing charges of attempted murder, attempted residential robbery and assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. in Sylmar Juvenile Court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial . His case will be referred to Lancaster prosecutors who will file charges against Mackey as an adult. According to deputies, the teen-ager shot the 38-year-old real estate agent at 10:40 p.m. March 24 in the 43300 block of 32nd Street West after he and a second person approached her as she was removing her vacuum cleaner from her car. The teen-ager demanded money, deputies said. When the woman told them she had no money, she was shot once through her abdomen. SOURCE: - Daily News Air Force clears B-2 for flight duty WASHINGTON - The Air Force announced Friday that one B-2 stealth bomber was cleared to fly the previous day, six days after Whiteman Air Force Base's fleet of 10 B-2s was ordered to stop flying. The grounding was ordered May 10 after the discovery of a crack in a clamp that attaches the tailpipe tail·pipe n. The pipe through which exhaust gases from an engine are discharged. Also called exhaust pipe. tailpipe Noun a pipe from which exhaust gases are discharged, esp. assembly to the engine. The one B-2 that has been cleared was flown from Whiteman Air Force Base Whiteman Air Force Base (Whiteman AFB) is a base of the United States Air Force in Johnson County, Missouri, United States. It is near the town of Knob Noster, Missouri. The population was 3,814 at the 2000 census. in Missouri to the Northrop Grumman Corp. B-2 plant at Palmdale to begin a scheduled retrofit. SOURCE: - Associated Press A.V. schools plan community forums LANCASTER - The Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale will hold a series of community forums as part of its effort to create a curriculum that stresses ``rigor rigor /rig·or/ (rig´er) [L.] chill; rigidity. rigor mor´tis the stiffening of a dead body accompanying depletion of adenosine triphosphate in the muscle fibers. , relevance and reality.'' The forums will allow parents and community members to identify what knowledge and skills students need to succeed after they leave high school. Forums are scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Lancaster City Hall's emergency operations center The Emergency Operations Center, or EOC, is a central command and control facility responsible for carrying out the principles of emergency preparedness and emergency management, or disaster management functions at a strategic level in an emergency situation, and ensuring ; from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Challenger Middle School in Lake Los Angeles; from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Lancaster City Hall's emergency operations center; from 7 to 9 p.m. May 29 at the Palmdale Cultural Center; from 7 to 9 p.m. May 30 at Mesa Intermediate School, Palmdale; from 7 to 9 p.m. June 3 at the Palmdale Playhouse; and from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 3 at Lane Park recreation center in Quartz Hill. The forums are being sponsored by each school. Forums with trained facilitators from the district are also available to community-based clubs, organizations and interest groups. For more information, call Dr. Mikie Loughridge at (805) 948-7655. Ext. 241. SOURCE: - Daily News |
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