BRIEFLY; COUNTY GETS FIRST TOBACCO PAYMENT.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 got its first installment of tobacco settlement money Thursday - $79 million, to be used for health programs. Forty-six states settled lawsuits filed against the tobacco companies in November 1998. California will receive about $1 billion a year, with half of that going to the state and the rest to cities and counties. Los Angeles County gets the biggest slice of the pie, about 13 percent or $125 million a year. - City News Service L.A. TO JOIN NEW FOOTBALL LEAGUE Los Angeles will be part of the eight-city XFL XFL Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada - Shawinigan / via Rail Service (Airport Code) XFL X-Treme Football League XFL Exit Flight Level XFL X Football League , a professional football league set to make its debut in February 2001, its founder, the World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc., said Thursday. The league will feature rule changes designed to ``enhance the action and speed of the game,'' the WWF See Windows Workflow Foundation. said. Other teams will be in Miami, Orlando, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Washington, D.C. The inaugural season is expected to feature a 10-game schedule, four-team playoff and championship game. - City News Service SPEAKER-ELECT TO BE HONORED WOODLAND HILLS - The West Valley Boys & Girls Club will honor state Assembly Speaker-elect Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, and Dionicio Morales, founder of the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation, at an award ceremony and dinner on Saturday. The foundation, with Morales as its president, operates enrichment programs for people of all ages. Hertzberg will become speaker in April. The ``Millennium Valentine's Dinner Dance'' will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a silent auction and reception, followed by the dinner and awards program at 7:30 p.m. at the Warner Center Marriott Hotel. The evening will include music by the Larry Gootkin Orchestra, mariachi entertainers and the Boys & Girls Club cheerleading The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. squad. - Daily News KORENSTEIN PICKED FOR STATE POSITION Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday announced the appointment of Julie Korenstein of Tarzana, a Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. board member since 1987, to the board of governors of the California Community Colleges. The panel aids in the development of community colleges. Korenstein will not get paid. - City News Service GETTY ACQUIRES TIEPOLO PAINTING The J. Paul Getty Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company. Biography Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, into a family already in the petroleum business, he was one of the first people in the world with a Museum has acquired a painting by the 18th century rococo master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo for a reported price of $2.2 million. The painting, ``Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles,'' dates from about 1740 and is an example of Tiepolo's so-called ``cabinet paintings,'' small canvases commissioned by wealthy patrons. The Getty acquired the work last Thursday through auction at Christie's in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . No comparable work by Tiepolo (1696-1770) has been sold in more than 25 years, Getty officials said. - City News Service |
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