BRIEFLY : 2 CHILDREN INJURED AS BOY CRASHES CAR.VAN NUYS - A 14-year-old boy and his younger sister were injured Wednesday after the boy tried to stop a car he was driving, but instead pressed the gas pedal and steered into a pole, police said. A 24-year-old neighbor, Benjamin Bowman, of North Hills, who was driving the boy and his 11-year-old sister to school, was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment, said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Officer Rosalinda Saindon of the Valley Traffic Division. Bowman, who police said was driving on a suspended license, is suspected of speeding and erratically driving through a parking lot in the 14600 block of Roscoe Boulevard, Saindon said. The girl told police that Bowman would not stop, so her brother took over the steering wheel and tried to brake, but mistakenly hit the gas and crashed into a pole. - Daily News Plan aims to widen paramedics' reach 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. Fire Chief Bill Bamattre Wednesday presented a county commission with his plan to redistribute paramedics in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. with the aim of improving emergency call response times. The pilot program calls for splitting up pairs of paramedics who usually ride together in ambulances to make one available for all fire trucks in the Valley. Bamattre says the new system will spread out paramedics, making it more likely a paramedic par·a·med·ic n. A person who is trained to give emergency medical treatment or assist medical professionals. paramedic will be at the scene within the first six minutes of an incident, with a second paramedic arriving in an ambulance within the next two minutes. Some paramedics and the union that represents them oppose the plan, claiming that splitting up paramedic teams will make their work much more difficult. - Daily News College unveils sign at new building site SYLMAR - With construction set to begin next summer on a $4.7-million building to house classes and faculty offices, Mission College hosted a ceremony Wednesday with academic leaders and public officials at the site of the planned 20,000-square-foot structure. The Collaborative Studies Building, scheduled for completion in 2002 on the northeast end of the campus, will be used for various classes including child development, health science, foreign languages and other subjects. A sign denoting the location of the building was unveiled Wednesday. Participants included Assemblyman Tony Cardenas Tony Cardenas served in the California State Assembly. In the Assembly, he had the powerful position of chair of the Budget Committee. He is now a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 6th district, which includes parts of the San Fernando Valley. , D-Panorama City; state Sen. Richard Alarcon, D-Van Nuys; Los Angeles Community College District The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California and some of its neighboring cities. In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages. Chancellor Mark Drummond; and Tom Oliver, interim president of Mission College. - Daily News Contractor pleads not guilty to bribery The owner of a construction firm doing business with the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he tried to bribe a school district building inspector The following articles relate to the topic of building inspector:
Prosecutors said Kambiz ``Ken'' Maleki, 43, of Woodland Hills, was ordered to correct some substandard work at Coliseum Street Elementary School elementary school: see school. , then slipped the inspector who made the order $500 concealed in a box of cookies. - City News Service Children's nonprofit gets outreach grant A Van Nuys group will get a $25,000 grant to help expand services for runaway children forced into prostitution or the pornography business, it was announced Tuesday. The grant from California Endowment, the state's largest health foundation, will provide funding for an outreach worker for Children of the Night, a center that provides temporary shelter to homeless boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. . - City News Service 11 Valley schools get funds to play Actor Kirk Douglas and his wife, Anne, presented their third annual Anne and Kirk Douglas Playground awards to 25 schools around Los Angeles - including 11 in the Valley - at a ceremony Wednesday. The couple issues grants each year to schools to help build and rebuild play space for children. Valley schools receiving $25,000 grants this year are: Calabash calabash Tree (Crescentia cujete) of the trumpet-creeper family (Bignoniaceae) that grows in Central and South America, the West Indies, and extreme southern Florida. It is often grown as an ornamental. Street Elementary, Canterbury Avenue Elementary, El Oro
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