BRIEFLY : CALTRANS PERMIT MAY HAVE LED TO COLLAPSE.Overweight big rigs may have caused the collapse of a temporary bridge on Highway 246. The California Department of Transportation The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is a government agency in the U.S. state of California. Its mission is to improve mobility across the state. It manages the state highway system and is actively involved with public transportation systems in California. , unaware that a temporary structure was in place, approved six permits for the tractor-trailer rigs despite restrictions on the highway linking Buellton and Lompoc. The two-lane bridge had been open for two weeks when it collapsed Oct. 21, just seconds after a legally permitted overweight truck drove across. State Sen. Joe Dunn, D-Garden Grove, who has led a legislative inquiry into the agency's troubled permitting office, said he believes Caltrans will be found responsible for the bridge failure. The structure was designed to hold trucks weighing up to 40 tons. The truck crossing the bridge just before its collapse weighed twice that amount. Caltrans spokesman Jim Drago declined to comment. At least 33 times in 3-1/2 years, permit writers routing oversized o·ver·size n. 1. A size that is larger than usual. 2. An oversize article or object. adj. o·ver·size also o·ver·sized Larger in size than usual or necessary. trucks on the highways have sent too-tall trucks slamming into low-lying bridges, according to records. - Associated Press Five arrested after minors buy alcohol SIMI VALLEY - Five convenience store employees were arrested on suspicion of selling alcohol to minors during a monthlong undercover investigation by Simi Valley police, authorities said. Between Sept. 8 and Oct. 7, three 18- and 19-year old police decoys were sent into 74 area stores to attempt to purchase alcohol, police said. Police said sales were made at five locations - Yosemite Shell station on Yosemite Avenue, Texaco Gas station on Tapo Street, Lucky 7 Liquor on Cochran Street, Circle K on Royal Avenue, and Sav-On Express on Madera Road. Each business faces sanctions ranging from a fine to a suspension or revocation of its liquor license. - Daily News Agoura High gets new asst. principal AGOURA HILLS - The Las Virgenes Unified School District Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K-12 school district in north-west Los Angeles County, USA consisting of 14 public schools in the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, and several small portions of the West Hills section of Los Angeles. Board of Education recently selected John Reece as assistant principal at Agoura High School Agoura High School is a four-year high school, freshman-senior, in Agoura Hills, California, United States. It is the largest high school in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. for the 1999-2000 school year. Reece most recently served as the principal at Healdsburg High School Healdsburg High School is a high school in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California, USA School Information Healdsburg High School is a comprehensive four year school for grades nine through twelve. in Healdsburg, Calif. His resume includes the following: dean of students, academic decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. coach, yearbook adviser and English instructor at Western Michigan University Western Michigan University, at Kalamazoo, Mich.; coeducational; founded in 1903 as Western State Normal School, became accredited in 1927 as a college, gained university status in 1957. , officials said. - Daily News Two teens arrested after thefts reported VENTURA - Two Santa Paula teen-agers were arrested on suspicion of burglary in connection with a purse snatching and other thefts in Ventura stores Wednesday night, authorities said. Jose Juan ``Johnny'' Rodriguez and Ralph Puga, both 18, first stole a purse from a Ventura resident as she sat on a bus bench at Telephone Road and Victoria Avenue at 5:30 p.m., police said. According to authorities, after driving to the Target Shopping Center on Main Street, Puga entered the Entenmann's Surplus Store at 7 p.m. and tried to take the purse of another Ventura resident, while Rodriguez waited in the car. Unsuccessful in that, according to police, Puga went back to the car and they drove away. Police said that 17 minutes later, they received a call from Mervyn's department store about two men driving away from the store with stolen merchandise. A Santa Paula officer found the car on the 700 block of Wisteria wisteria (wĭstēr`ēə) or wistaria (–târ`–), any plant of the genus Wisteria, and detained the men before Ventura police were able to take them into custody. - Daily News Bakery will pay fine for dumping liquid OXNARD - An Oxnard bakery was fined more than $11,600 for releasing approximately 50 gallons of an ammonia-water mixture from the facility into a storm drain, the Ventura County District Attorney's office said. Maple Leaf maple leaf of Canada. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 283] See : Flower Or Plant, National Bakery, without admitting wrongdoing wrong·do·er n. One who does wrong, especially morally or ethically. wrong  do , agreed to pay the fine - $5,000 under the county's business professions code, $3,000 under the Fish and Game code, $2,250 to the District Attorney's office, and $1,413.55 in restitution to the city of Oxnard Fire Department, authorities said. On Jan. 14, an Oxnard patrol officer found a stream of liquid flowing into a drain, stemming from a nearly empty 55-gallon drum with a siphon siphon (sī`fən, –fŏn), tube through which a liquid is lifted over an elevation by the pressure of the atmosphere and is then emptied at a lower level. hose attached to it. The ammonia had apparently been drained into the drum from a refrigerator at the bakery as the unit was being serviced, officials said. Officials said the release caused no known environmental or property damage. - Daily News Fire dept. cleans up oil well's gusher OXNARD - Firefighters cleaned up a 200- to 300-gallon spill from an abandoned oil well that erupted Wednesday night on Sturgis Road, the Ventura County Fire Department Not to be confused with Ventura Fire Department. The Ventura County Fire Department (VCFD) provides fire protection and emergency response services for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, and for six other cities within the county. reported. A fire official noticed a 20-foot high gusher while driving in the unincorporated area between Pleasant Valley Road and Del Norte Boulevard at 9:16 p.m., an official said. - Daily News |
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