BRIEFLY; TEEN-AGERS PLOW THROUGH SCHOOL.LANCASTER Lancaster, city, England Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River. - Vandals hot-wired a 20-ton forklift and went on a rampage through the under-construction Gifford C. Cole Middle School, causing up to $50,000 damage. ``This is the fourth time people have broken in,'' said Bob Hill of Skidmore Contracting of Phoenix, Ariz. ``But it's never been this bad before.'' Witnesses said two youths, about 17 or 18, apparently jumped over a chain-link fence on Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. to vandalize the construction site. The teen-agers powered up a large forklift, which they apparently used to punch holes in the walls of the three buildings on the campus. When 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 sheriff's deputies arrived, the forklift was still running with its tines stuck through the wall of a science lab. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. |
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