BRIEFLY : CREWS QUENCH FIRE AT ENCINO BUILDING.ENCINO - A one-story building at the corner of Ventura Boulevard and Encino Avenue went up in flames for more than 30 minutes late Monday night, fire officials reported. The building, reported to be a restaurant, was engulfed by fire that was extinguished shortly before midnight, said Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. spokesman Jim Wells. No other structures were damaged and no injuries were reported. The fire was reported at 11:15 p.m., Wells said. About 55 firefighters in 11 fire trucks and two rescue ambulances fought the blaze. Wells said shortly before midnight that the department did not know the name of the restaurant, nor had they reached the owners of the building or the business. The cause was under investigation early this morning. - Daily News Riordan, new wife set to return to L.A. Just days after a wedding at their vacation home Vacation Home A home separate from an individual's primary residence that is used for recreational purposes and may also be rented out at unused times. Notes: For tax purposes, those who rent their vacation homes may result in a lower amount of allowable expense in Sun Valley, Idaho <includeonly></includeonly> Sun Valley is a city and affluent resort community in the central part of the U.S. state of Idaho, adjacent to the city of Ketchum in Blaine County. , Mayor Richard Riordan and his new wife, Nancy Daly, are tentatively set to make their first public appearance together later this week at a ceremony to honor retiring L.A. Philharmonic Manager Ernest Fleischmann. If Riordan recovers sufficiently from a bad cold, he and his new bride plan to attend the ceremony Wednesday at the Los Angeles Music Center The Music Center (officially named the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation. Located in downtown Los Angeles, the Music Center is home to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theater, Mark Taper , according to his spokeswoman, Noelia Rodriguez. Riordan and Daly are set to return to Los Angeles today from Sun Valley, where a Valentine's Day wedding was held under a blanket of secrecy, with mayoral officials refusing all comment about the proceedings. - Daily News Big rig hits, kills driver on freeway CAMARILLO - One person was killed Monday when a truck driver lost control of his big rig at the top of the Conejo Grade on the northbound Ventura Freeway and slammed into a pickup at the Camarillo Springs Road exit, officials said. The identity of the victim was not released, pending notification of relatives, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. said. CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan Officer Paul Thompson said the driver of the big rig was Larry Greene, 30, of Simi Valley. He suffered minor injuries and was treated at St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital is a hospital in Camarillo, California, USA. It is currently operated by Catholic Healthcare West. History The hospital was founded in 1974[1]. in Camarillo. Officers investigating the crash had yet to determine a cause late Monday night. Thompson said Greene's truck, which was carrying a skip loader, had come upon slowing traffic as the roadway starts a steep descent toward Camarillo. ``The driver was unable to downshift down·shift v. down·shift·ed, down·shift·ing, down·shifts v.intr. 1. To shift a motor vehicle into a lower gear. 2. To reduce the speed, rate, or intensity of something. 3. his vehicle, and while attempting to stop, his brakes failed and he began to pick up speed,'' Thompson wrote in his report. Greene steered his truck into the guard rail to try to slow it down, veered into traffic lanes and sideswiped another big rig. He picked up more speed as he approached the exit and careened into the truck. The force of the crash pushed both vehicles halfway along the off-ramp. Greene was able to crawl away from his truck, Thompson said. The driver of the other big rig was not injured. - Daily News 2 male teens rob woman, flee scene NORTH HOLLYWOOD - Two male teen-agers robbed a woman at gunpoint behind the Sears parking lot on the 12000 block of Victory Boulevard on Monday afternoon, police said. The two teens pointed a gun at the 30-year-old Northridge resident at 3:15 p.m. Monday and demanded her possessions, said Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . Officer Jason Lee. She handed them $30 and they fled
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The two suspects are still at large, Lee said. They are Latino and estimated to be about 16 to 18 years old, between 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall and between 150 to 180 pounds. - Daily News Santa Clarita area suffers power loss SANTA CLARITA - About 2,000 homes in Santa Clarita were in the dark Monday night for less than an hour before Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. crews got the juice flowing again. The source of the 8:25 p.m. outage was an underground cable, SCE SCE (in Scotland) Scottish Certificate of Education SCE n abbr (= Scottish Certificate of Education) → Schulabschlusszeugnis in Schottland spokesman Ray Golden said, noting that the problem was weather related. Electric service was restored at about 9:10 p.m. - City News Service |
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