BRIEFLY BID PROCESS URGED FOR VALLEY BUSWAY.A Metropolitan Transportation Authority board committee voted 5-0 Wednesday to recommend that bids be solicited from contractors wanting to design and build a controversial $329.5 million busway through the 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. . The committee's recommendation will go to the full MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. board for consideration. The busway would pass through North Hollywood, Valley Glen, Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Tarzana and Woodland Hills, among other communities. - City News Service Woman says she warned about dog A woman who raised the two dogs that killed Diane Whipple Diane Alexis Whipple (January 21, 1968 – January 26, 2001) was a lacrosse player and coach, who is best known as the victim of a fatal dog attack in San Francisco in January 2001. testified Wednesday that one was ``a big clown,'' but she warned the couple charged in the death that the other was so unpredictable it should have been euthanized. Janet Coumbs was one of two witnesses who said they warned the defendants. The other was a veterinarian veterinarian /vet·er·i·nar·i·an/ (vet?er-i-nar´e-an) a person trained and authorized to practice veterinary medicine and surgery; a doctor of veterinary medicine. vet·er·i·nar·i·an n. who considered the dogs dangerous and was so concerned by their size that he sent one of the defendants a letter in which he said the dogs would be a liability in a home. When Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, the San Francisco attorney couple on trial, came to pick up Bane BANE. This word was formerly used to signify a malefactor. Bract. 1. 2, t. 8, c. 1. and Hera, Coumbs said she gave them a warning. Whipple, 33, a college lacrosse coach, was mauled in the hallway of her San Francisco apartment building on Jan. 26, 2001. The trial of her neighbors was moved to Los Angeles due to extensive publicity in San Francisco. - Associated Press $40,000 awarded former employee Jurors who ruled that a woman was wrongly fired from soul singer James Brown's company awarded her $40,000 in compensatory damages A sum of money awarded in a civil action by a court to indemnify a person for the particular loss, detriment, or injury suffered as a result of the unlawful conduct of another. Wednesday. The jury earlier rejected the woman's claim of sexual harassment sexual harassment, in law, verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace or in academic or other institutional settings, that is actionable, as in tort or under equal-opportunity statutes. by Brown. Jurors awarded her about a year's salary but no punitive damages Monetary compensation awarded to an injured party that goes beyond that which is necessary to compensate the individual for losses and that is intended to punish the wrongdoer. . James Brown Enterprises Inc., not the singer himself, was held liable for Lisa Ross Agbalaya's dismissal. - Associated Press Protection mulled for canyon woods SANTA CLARITA - Wooded portions of Elsmere, Placerita and Whitney canyons would be designated as wilderness areas of the Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los under a proposal being considered by federal officials. A wilderness designation would forever remove the threat that a large dump could be developed in the forest portion of Elsmere Canyon. In 1996, U.S. Rep. Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, was able to amend an unrelated bill and prohibit landfills from being developed in national forests. - Daily News Cause of teen's death a mystery VAN NUYS - Los Angeles County coroner's investigators on Wednesday continued to look for the cause of the mysterious death of a Van Nuys High School Van Nuys High School (VNHS) established in 1914, is a high school in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District: District 2. student who collapsed at his gym locker this week. Ricardo Martinez, 15, of Van Nuys, died Tuesday morning at Valley Presbyterian Hospital after students and teachers had tried unsuccessfully to revive the fallen student. He had appeared to be in perfect health. A coroner's spokesman said an autopsy is being performed and a report will be made. - Daily News Land-swap deal heads to council THOUSAND OAKS - The Planning Commission voted 3-1 Tuesday to approve the Western Plateau Preservation Plan, which will go to the City Council on Tuesday. Vice Chairwoman Claudia Bill-de la Pena dissented. The vote came days after the council majority removed the chairman and a commissioner on charges of attempting to delay the implementation of the land-swap deal. The council appointed Forrest Frields interim commissioner, and city officials have invited interested people to apply for the two open positions. - Daily News |
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