BRIEFLY; COUNTRY CLUB FIRE DAMAGES BUILDING.GLENDALE - Fire caused significant damage Thursday to a two-story building on the grounds of the Chevy Chase Chevy Chase (chĕv`ē), town (1990 pop. 8,559), Montgomery co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; founded as a village, inc. 1914. Country Club in Glendale, but no one was hurt, authorities said. The fire at 3067 E. Chevy Chase Drive was reported by a Glendale police officer who saw the flames at 4:19 a.m., said Glendale Fire Department Capt. Mike Carroll Mike Carroll (born 1975) is a professional skateboarder from San Francisco who skated for H-Street and then formed the super team, Plan B Skateboards. In a mass defection, Mike started Girl Skateboards with fellow Plan B rider Rick Howard. Carroll is often sarcastic towards people. . It was extinguished in a half-hour. The cause of the fire is being investigated. A damage estimate was not immediately available. - City News Service Train hits SUV; driver unharmed NORTH HILLS - An Encino man whose sport-utility vehicle stalled on railroad tracks Thursday managed to get out moments before an Amtrak Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corp., authorized to operate virtually all intercity passenger railroad routes in the United States. Amtrak was created by Congress in 1970 in response to more than two decades of continuous operating deficits by privately run train crashed into it, officials said. The man, who was not identified, was visibly shaken, but not injured in the 10 a.m. close call at Hayvenhurst Avenue and Roscoe Boulevard, said Brian Humphrey, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. . No one was injured aboard the northbound Pacific Surfliner train, an Amtrak spokeswoman said. The train was delayed about 35 minutes. - Daily News Fraud perpetrator A term commonly used by law enforcement officers to designate a person who actually commits a crime. to pay restitution VAN NUYS - A Southland insurance agent who provided clients with bogus documents listing nonexistent non·ex·is·tence n. 1. The condition of not existing. 2. Something that does not exist. non insurance coverage was ordered Thursday to pay $150,000 in restitution to more than 400 customers, authorities said. Jesse Wong, 35, also was sentenced to three years' formal probation for his no-contest plea to five felony counts of grand theft, the state Department of Insurance reported. Wong operated insurance agencies throughout Southern California and sold insurance policies through unlicensed employees from 1995 to 1998, state investigators said. Wong made refunds to many of the homeowners, but some incurred property damage before they learned they did not have insurance, according to the state Department of Insurance. - City News Service Thousands of pot plants discovered LOS OSOS OSOS One Stop Operating System (computer data base used by government employment agencies) OSOS Open-Source Operating System - More than 8,300 marijuana plants were found in a three-day period at eight separate ``gardens'' in a mountainous area of San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. County, the head of a multiagency task force said Thursday. Statewide, the task force has helped local authorities collect for destruction about 85,000 marijuana plants found in 20 counties this summer. The plants would have a street value of about $340 million, said Sonya Barna of the California Department of Justice, operations manager of the Campaign Against Marijuana Plants. The task force involving federal, state and local law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). has three helicopters and 120 people working throughout California this summer on marijuana eradication, she said. Helicopters were used to drop workers into remote canyons near Los Osos on Thursday where eight gardens of marijuana plants 7 to 10 feet high were found, Barna said. The workers cut the plants, and the helicopters lifted them out in nets - to be destroyed or buried at another location. - Associated Press |
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