BRIEFLY : ABANDONED INFANT'S CONDITION IMPROVES.PASADENA - A day-old boy found in a shallow grave in Altadena was hospitalized here and improved from critical to serious condition Sunday. ``The baby has been doing remarkable,'' said Dr. Ricardo Leiberman at Huntington Memorial Hospital. ``He's showing a remarkable recovery and responding very well to the treatment we have been giving him.'' The boy was undergoing treatment for severe hypothermia hypothermia Abnormally low body temperature, with slowing of physiological activity. It is artificially induced (usually with ice baths) for certain surgical procedures and cancer treatments. . The hospital reported an outpouring of public support for the child. The infant was found, with umbilical cord umbilical cord (ŭmbĭl`ĭkəl), cordlike structure about 22 in. (56 cm) long in the pregnant human female, extending from the abdominal wall of the fetus to the placenta. still attached, Saturday night in Altadena by a woman jogging with her three dogs. The baby was wrapped in a blue towel and partially buried near a jogging trail. - 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. New bridge design accommodates bats A survey of bats at a Topanga bridge showed that the structure, due for replacement by the county Public Works Department Many governments worldwide have had departments or ministries referred to as the Public Works Department either formally or informally. In Australia: - New South Wales -
Counting the animals at dusk Saturday, 22 volunteers working with the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. Geography They run for approximately 40 mi (64 km) east-west from the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles to Point Mugu in Ventura County. tallied the number of bats emerging from three bridges Coordinates: Three Bridges is a neighbourhood within the town of Crawley, in the county of West Sussex in England. History , including the one slated for replacement. They counted 850 Mexican freetail bats flying in and out of bridge roosts, the conservation district announced in a statement. They also sighted big brown bats, but were unable to count them. The agency conducted the survey after conservationists complained that replacing the old wooden bridge with a concrete one would harm the bat colonies roosting below it, because the new bridge would not have claw-holds the animals could latch onto. County, state and federal officials worked out a plan to protect the bats, which includes the survey, the installation of bat boxes where bats can live during construction, and a ``bat-friendly'' bridge design that will include ``bat crevices'' on its underside. - Daily News Man arrested, linked to woman's fatal fall WEST COVINA West Covina, city (1990 pop. 96,086), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the San Gabriel valley; settled 1905, inc. 1923. Before World War II, West Covina was a small rural community where walnuts, wheat, and livestock were raised. - Police arrested a man on suspicion of murder after a woman jumped or was pushed from his moving car on the San Bernardino Freeway The San Bernardino Freeway is the assigned name of an approximately 60-mile (95 km) long segment of Interstate 10 (I-10) between the cities of Los Angeles, California and San Bernardino, California. in West Covina Sunday, a police sergeant said. The motorist, Mark Hacker, 46, of Baldwin Park, and his passenger, a 40-year-old Baldwin Park woman, had been drinking before the incident, said West Covina police Sgt. Mark Dettor. The woman, whose name was not released, was in the front passenger seat of a 1988 Volkswagen Fox going west on the freeway when she jumped or was pushed out of the car near the Citrus Avenue off-ramp, Dettor said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. - City News Service |
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