BRIEFLY : POLICE ARREST MAN WEARING JAIL PANTS.SANTA CLARITA - A man wearing jail-issue pants ended up behind bars Sunday after a convenience store owner called police to report a possible escapee escapee A popular term for older relatives of those at risk for Huntington's disease, who didn't develop the disease. See Huntington's disease. . It turned out that Jose Gonzales, 22, of Pico Rivera was not a fugitive, but he had four outstanding traffic warrants, said Lt. Daniel Castillo of the Los Angeles County sheriff's Santa Clarita station. Gonzales went into the Castaic store about 3:15 p.m., clad in blue pants stamped with ``Los Angeles County Jail,'' Castillo said. Gonzales took off in a van, but authorities pulled him over on 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. south of Lake Hughes Road and arrested him, Castillo said. Gonzales told authorities he found the pants in the clean laundry at home. Source: Daily News Coroner identifies man killed by truck A man killed when a trash truck backed over him at a Sylmar landfill was identified Sunday as Joe Madrigal madrigal, name for two different forms of Italian music, one related to the poetic madrigal in the 14th cent., the other the most common form of secular vocal music in the 16th cent. , 24, of Valencia, coroner's officials said. Madrigal, a worker at Sunshine Canyon Landfill, was guiding drivers at the dump site when he was caught under the rear tires of a truck and dragged about 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Source: Daily News L.A. area still leader in smog Houston, we have the problem. Texas officials fumed last week after news reports that Houston had recorded the nation's worst smog day this year, just edging out a San Bernardino County mountain town east of Los Angeles. Officials in Houston can breathe a little easier: The South Coast Air Quality Management District The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), formed in 1976, is the air pollution agency responsible mainly for regulating stationary sources of air pollution for most of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside County, and all of Orange county. had culled erroneous, preliminary figures posted on a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and World Wide Web site. In fact, the San Bernardino Valley The San Bernardino Valley is the hub of Southern California's Inland Empire. It is drained by the Santa Ana River. It is bordered on the north by the San Bernardino Mountains and the eastern San Gabriel Mountains, on the east by the San Jacinto Mountains, and on the south and west topped Houston for worst-smog day. Houston still ranked No. 2. Source: Associated Press |
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