BRIEFLY : RENO AIR TO FIGHT FOR 6:40 A.M. FLIGHT.BURBANK - A Reno Air Reno Air was a scheduled passenger airline that provided service from its hubs at Reno/Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada and San Jose International Airport in San Jose, California to destinations throughout the western United States, with limited service to the US east lawyer told Burbank Airport officials Wednesday that the airline will take ``legal measures'' if the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority attempts to block the airline's plans for a new 6:40 a.m. flight. Reno Air lawyer Steven A. Rossum wrote that refusing to allow a pre-7 a.m. Reno Air flight would be discriminatory because United Airlines, America West and Alaska Airline already have pre-7 a.m. flights that break the airport's voluntary overnight curfew. On Tuesday, the Airport Authority delayed a decision on a lease agreement with Reno Air, which does not now fly out of Burbank Airport. - Daily News Expansion plans to be addressed Trying desperately to gain support in time to meet a fast-approaching deadline, Mission College will hold a meeting on the college's expansion plans tonight. Officials of the Sylmar-based college say the meeting, which will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Campus Center, is expected to draw 300 to 400 people, including students, residents and other community members. - Daily News Fall leaves child in critical condition NORTH HOLLYWOOD - A 7-year-old girl was in critical condition Wednesday after falling from a third-floor balcony a day earlier, officials said. She fell from the third-floor balcony to the first-floor balcony of an apartment complex in the 6800 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). at 8:50 p.m. Tuesday, said Bob Collis, 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. . - Daily News Drive-by shootings wound 2 in Valley PACOIMA - Two people were wounded by bullets fired from a passing car in separate drive-by shootings Tuesday night, officials said. In the first shooting - about 9 p.m. - a 19-year-old man was standing in the driveway of his home in the 10900 block of Tamarack tamarack: see larch. Avenue when shots were fired from a white car containing a number of men, police said. Shortly afterward, shots were fired - possibly from the same car - at another vehicle on Glenoaks Boulevard near Terra Bella Street, hitting a man in the face, officials said. - Daily News L.A. council votes to settle lawsuit The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. voted Wednesday to pay $262,000 to settle a lawsuit by a 73-year-old woman seriously injured when her car was hit by a city Animal Regulation Department vehicle in Canoga Park. The payment will go to Elsie Brown, whose car was hit broadside in the intersection of Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Saticoy Street in 1995 when animal-regulation employee Frederick Galdi ran a red light, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report by the City Attorney's Office. - Daily News Alarcon to donate his raise to LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. City Councilman Richard Alarcon said Wednesday that he will donate the $10,000 he is getting in a pay raise this year to the LAPD to benefit police programs in his northeast San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. district. - Daily News 9 L.A. schools built on toxic sites `safe' At least nine schools in the Los Angeles are built on toxic sites, though they ``appear to be safe for children,'' Assemblyman Scott Wildman, D-Glendale, said Wednesday. The 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. issued a statement saying that several state environmental regulatory agencies have said the sites - none in the San Fernando Valley - are safe for children. - City News Service |
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