BRIEFLY 2 CRASHES TAKE PLACE AT CAMPUS.BURBANK - The tuna surprise wasn't the only thing amiss Tuesday at St. Bellarmine Jefferson High School's cafeteria where two drivers mistook accelerators for brakes, one plowing into the dining hall and another into two cars in the parking lot. Just hours after a Burbank Central Library patron plowed through a fence and into the adjacent Bell-Jeff's empty cafeteria, a second driver who had just finished playing bingo at the 154 E. Olive Ave. campus cafeteria lost control of her car. ``Witnesses said she burned rubber and screeched backward at a high rate of speed,'' said Sgt. William Berry William Berry was the name of four people of historical import, one living person of questionable Notability, and a common misspelling of a Jack the Ripper suspect.
Tim Stehr became the Police Chief of the department on August 1, 2007. The previous chiefs were Thomas Hoefel, David Newsham and Glen Bell. . ``She stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake and went into two parked cars.'' Nobody was seriously injured in either incident, just ``shaken up a bit,'' Berry said. - Daily News City flag policy change approved GLENDALE - The City Council approved modifying the city's flag policy Tuesday to allow lowering the U.S. flag for police, firefighters or other city employees who die in the line of duty In the Line of Duty may refer to:
The council voted 4 to 1, with Councilman Bob Yousefian dissenting, to give the city's department heads the discretion to recommend lowering the U.S. flags at their facilities with the concurrence CONCURRENCE, French law. The equality of rights, or privilege which several persons-have over the same thing; as, for example, the right which two judgment creditors, Whose judgments were rendered at the same time, have to be paid out of the proceeds of real estate bound by them. Dict. de Jur. h.t. of the city manager. Public safety agencies will now have the discretion to lower their U.S. flags if a colleague in other agencies - not just in Glendale - die in the line of duty. The previous city flag policy, which strictly conformed to the federal flag code, permitted the flag to be lowered to half-staff on city buildings only on occasions specified in the federal code, such as Memorial Day, the death of a president or upon special executive orders from the president or California governor. - Daily News Nobody killed in train crashes NORTH HOLLYWOOD - No serious injuries were reported Wednesday in separate crashes hours apart involving Metrolink trains and cars, authorities said. In the first crash, Metrolink Train 116 - going an estimated 79 mph - clipped a car on the tracks and spun the car around. But the woman inside was not hurt, authorities said. The train from Moorpark caught the rear 12 inches of the sedan Sedan (sədäN`), town (1990 pop. 22,407), Ardennes dept., NE France, on the Meuse River. A noted textile center since the 16th cent., Sedan also has metal and brewing industries. The town became part of French crown lands in 1642. at an intersection in the 7200 block of Bellaire Avenue, near Rayme Street in North Hollywood, at 3:10 p.m., said Brian Humphrey of the city fire department. The car was ``violently thrown about 20 feet'' and ``the driver was shaken, but amazingly uninjured,'' he said. None of the 50 or so passengers on the train was hurt. About four hours later, witnesses reported that a woman with five children - ranging in age from 6 months to 6 years - appeared to be trying to beat an Antelope Valley-bound Metrolink train at the Brand Boulevard crossing, near Truman Street in San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. , Humphrey said. The train clipped the rear of the compact car, Humphrey said, and the ``woman appeared to be shaken with minor injuries.'' He said she and the children were taken to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is a hospital in Mission Hills, California, USA. The hospital has 254 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. History in Mission Hills to be examined. - City News Service Smog rates first in hatred survey Smog was the ``winner'' in an informal poll asking 2,631 Angelenos what they hate more, smog or gridlock Gridlock A government, business or institution's inability to function at a normal level due either to complex or conflicting procedures within the administrative framework or to impending change in the business. , with 55 percent saying bad air is worse than traffic, the car-sharing company Flexcar reported Wednesday. Flexcar researchers conducted the survey over four Fridays during the summer concert series at California Plaza The name California Plaza may refer to one of the following locations in Los Angeles:
Officials of the company, which offers car-sharing services for about $10 a day in Burbank, 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 and other area locations, believes that reducing the number of cars on the road can help get rid of both smog and gridlock. ``When you get that close of a vote, that's still a pretty split decision in terms of what the problem is affecting 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. the most,'' said Flexcar spokesman Dan Miller. - Daily News |
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