BRIEFLY AGUA DULCE FIRE NEARLY CONTAINED.AGUA DULCE Agua Dulce is Spanish for "sweet water". It also refers to various locations: In Mexico:
More than 400 firefighters from the Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La and nearby areas fought the blaze that erupted on Thursday, said Fire Department Supervisor Clyde Taylor. Two firefighters were treated for minor injuries, she said. Homes and businesses near 35100 Anthony Road, across Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling , were threatened, but no structures were damaged, fire officials said. The cause of the blaze is under investigation. - Daily News L.A. man gets jail for uprooting oaks VENTURA - A judge sentenced a 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. man to seven months in jail and fined him $500,000 for destroying about 300 oak trees on his property near Ojai. William Kaddis, 58, was convicted in May of using bulldozers to illegally knock down the trees on his 43-acre hillside ranch. He also was convicted of illegally keeping 62 dogs on his property, altering a stream without permission and filing a false police report. Kaddis' attorney plans to appeal the decision. The oak trees, protected under a 1992 Ventura County ordinance, were destroyed sometime before October 2001. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Russian museum exhibition opens An exhibit that includes paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse and Paul Cezanne opens today at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. . ``Old Masters, Impressionists and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow'' includes 76 paintings spanning 250 years of European art. The LACMA LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA Latin American and Caribbean Movers Association exhibit, which runs through Oct. 13, will be the only West Coast stop. Many of the paintings have never been shown in Los Angeles before. The exhibition is not without controversy. The scion sci·on n. 1. A descendant or heir. 2. also ci·on A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting. of an aristocratic Russian family claims many of the Impressionist paintings were seized from his grandfather in 1917 during the Russian Revolution. Museum hours are from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets for adult are $18 on weekdays and $20 on weekends. To buy tickets over the telephone, call (877) 522-6225. - City News Service Brothel was run from golf course NORCO Norco, city (1990 pop. 23,302), Riverside co., SE Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1964. Diversified agriculture is being displaced by rapid urban development. Lubricating oils are manufactured. State prisons for men and women are nearby. - A woman who helped run a prostitution ring at a local golf course told investigators that her clients included police and government officials, it was reported Saturday. ``A lot of important people showed up. ... doctors, lawyers, cops,'' Sandy Juarez said in a recorded January interview with a deputy district attorney, according to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. She declined to identify the men. Riverside County sheriff's deputies raided a private tournament at Hidden Valley Golf Course in Norco last summer. They alleged that prostitutes were operating in tents near the fairway. Juarez, 37, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy against public health and morals. She was sentenced to 120 days in jail, to be served on weekends. She also promised to testify against golf club managers Darren James Bollinger, 28, and James Wood, 37, who are charged with felony pimping pimping Academia See Pimp. Cf Pumping. and pandering. Sheriff's Deputy Earl Quintana could not provide a list of suspected clients in the case. Some alleged johns may face charges, he said. ``You would hope that that would raise a red flag and cause far more investigation,'' Earl Quintana said of Juarez's allegations. ``But that all depends on how reliable Juarez is as a source of information.'' - Associated Press |
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