BRIEFLY : NEW CAR-POOL LANES TO OPEN ON FREEWAY.Car-poolers can expect to shave some minutes off their drive time thanks to a 12-mile stretch of new car-pool lanes that will open today on the Ronald Reagan Freeway. The new high-occupancy vehicle lanes, which run from the Ventura County line to the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. , should save on average one minute per mile - or 12 minutes - during peak traffic hours, said Caltrans spokeswoman Patricia Reid. The car-pool lanes and a new 167-space park-and-ride lot on Winnetka Avenue are the result of a $23 million project started in August 1994, funded by a combination of federal, state and local sales taxes. That project also included widening of the eastbound and westbound regular lanes on the Ronald Reagan Freeway from three to four lanes, adding a 120-space parking lot at the corner of Chatsworth Street and Sepulveda Boulevard in Mission Hills and the constructing of seven sound walls along the freeway. ?13Daily News Social employees conduct sick-out About 500 social workers and their supervisors in 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. County's Children and Family Services Department called in sick Thursday as part of a union protest. The sick-out was particularly heavy in DCFS DCFS Department of Children and Family Services DCFS Division of Children and Family Services DCFS Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems (conference) DCFS Data Communication & Functional System offices serving Pasadena, East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. and Exposition Park Exposition Park is the name of more than one place:
DCFS social workers have been upset for at least two years about the size of their caseloads, caused by a huge run-up in the number of abuse reports and ongoing cases. Though the department has hired hundreds of new social workers, it still hasn't been able to entirely ease that caseload case·load n. The number of cases handled in a given period, as by an attorney or by a clinic or social services agency. caseload Noun crush. The unions, like most other organizations representing county workers, have been pushing the county for a raise, something most employees haven't gotten in three to five years. Negotiations for new contracts are supposed to begin April 1. ?13Daily News West Hills man dies in freeway crash A West Hills man was killed Thursday in a single-car crash on the westbound Glenn M. Anderson Glenn Malcolm Anderson (February 21, 1913-December 13, 1994) was a Democratic congressman from California. Anderson was born 1913 in Hawthorne, California. He received a BA from University of California, Los Angeles in 1936. Freeway in Westchester. Brent Hershman, 35, died at the scene of the 1:30 a.m. crash west of the San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. , said coroner's spokesman Scott Carrier. Hershman was driving a Volvo at a high rate of speed when it went out of control and hit a post, 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. ?13City News Service Deadline for voters to register Monday Registration drives are expected to be run throughout the city this weekend leading up to the Monday deadline for voters to be eligible to vote in the April 8 election. The election is significant in that it not only determines the leadership of the city with races for mayor, City Council and city attorney - as well as school board seats and the Community College District - but also on how the city is governed with a proposal to establish a charter reform commission. Election Division spokesman Joe Giles said there are now 1.58 million voters registered in the city and 1.82 million voters who may vote in the community college district elections. Giles said voter affidavit applications are available at all city offices with public counters, as well as fire stations, libraries, post offices, county offices and the Department of Motor Vehicles In the United States of America, Department of Motor Vehicles (or DMV) is a commonly used name of the government agency of a U.S. state which administers the registration of automobiles (e.g., by issuing license plates), and/or the licensing of drivers (e.g. . To be eligible to vote, the applications must have a postmark of Monday. To verify if the application has been received, voters should check in seven to 10 days with the county Registrar-Recorder's Office at (310) 462-2748. ?13Daily News |
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