BRIEFLY : FIVE 10TH-GRADERS EACH GET $16,000.Five 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. students were each awarded $16,000 scholarships Friday at the school district's headquarters in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . The five 10th-graders, are Juana Gatson of Birmingham High School Birmingham High School is a public coeducational high school in the neighborhood/district of Lake Balboa in the San Fernando Valley section of the city of Los Angeles, California. The school is a part of District One of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). in Van Nuys; Mishawn Johnson of Verdugo Hills High School Verdugo Hills High School (VHHS) is a public school located in Tujunga, Los Angeles, California within the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school serves students from several areas of Los Angeles, including Sunland, Tujunga, Lake View Terrace, and portions of North in Tujunga; Marketa Behn of Southwest Middle College School in Los Angeles; Joel Jaimes of Hamilton High School Hamilton High School may refer to:
The recipients of the fourth annual Warren Christopher Scholarship, which is sponsored by the law firm of O'Melveny and Myers, must all maintain at least a 3.25 grade-point average throughout their high school careers in order to receive the scholarship award. ?13- Daily News Fund elected panel, Nate Holden says With the elected Charter Reform Commission to begin its work July 1, a Los Angeles city official called Friday for the city to provide any funding it needs. Councilman Nate Holden said the elected commission should share in the $1.1 million in funding given the committee appointed by the City Council since members of the two panels have indicated they hope to work together. ?13- Daily News City to create own department for zoo After years of controversy over its operation, the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. on Friday voted to establish a separate department for the Los
Angeles Zoo.
City Council President John Ferraro said that the new department will provide L.A. Zoo officials with greater independence and accountability, with its own commission, rather than keeping it within the city Recreation and Parks Department. ?13- Daily News Naked body found at bottom of ravine ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST - The body of a nude man was found Friday near the wreckage of a car at the bottom of a ravine in the Angeles National Forest, authorities said. ?13- City News Service Lucky driver avoids being decapitated de·cap·i·tate tr.v. de·cap·i·tat·ed, de·cap·i·tat·ing, de·cap·i·tates To cut off the head of; behead. [Late Latin d TUJUNGA - Fire officials considered a mother of three lucky after she escaped being decapitated in a traffic accident on Friday the 13th - traditionally dubbed an unlucky day. The 27-year-old Tujunga woman, who was not identified, was driving her Nissan Sentra in the 6400 block of West Foothill Boulevard in Tujunga at 8:34 a.m. when a Laidlaw full-size bus overturned and crushed her car, said Brian Humphrey, a spokesman for the 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. . The impact threw her driver's seat back, forcing her into a horizontal position and saving her life, Humphrey said. ``It is perfectly clear to us that had she remained in an upright position, she would have been decapitated,'' the spokesman said. The woman received only minor injuries. The male bus driver was not injured and no students were on the bus. ?13- Daily News 2 men invade home, take $700 in cash PANORAMA CITY - A man with a shotgun and an accomplice barged into a home in Panorama City on Friday and took about $700, police said. The robbery in the 14200 block of Van Nuys Boulevard occurred about 1 p.m., said Sgt. Ken Bocuriano of the Los Angeles Police Department's Foothill Station.No one was injured. |
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