BRIEFLY BOTH MARS ROVERS GET DOWN TO WORK.PASADENA - NASA's twin rovers reached out their complex robotic arms to touch the surface of Mars on Monday, marking the first day of the joint $820 million mission when both unmanned spacecraft were in full swing. Opportunity and Spirit, 6,600 miles apart, both began the workweek gearing up for in-depth analyses of the soils and rocks on the ground beneath their wheels. On Monday, mission manager Jennifer Trosper said Spirit had joined Opportunity back at work, even as engineers worked out the final kinks in its software. - 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. Youths find body during park ride CHATSWORTH - Four youths riding bicycles discovered a severely decomposed de·com·pose v. de·com·posed, de·com·pos·ing, de·com·pos·es v.tr. 1. To separate into components or basic elements. 2. To cause to rot. v.intr. 1. body at Chatsworth Park South on Monday afternoon, and coroner's officials were working to determine how the person died. The youths were hiking and biking in the park about 3:30 p.m. when they discovered the body in a cavernous area of the park, said 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. spokesman Brian Humphrey. Homicide detectives from the 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. Police Department's Devonshire Division were called to the scene near the intersection of Valley Circle Boulevard and Devonshire Street to investigate, said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Sgt. Andy Whitman. - Daily News World Airports salary deal OK'd Airport commissioners agreed Monday to pay $230,491 a year to Los Angeles World Airports Los Angeles World Airports or LAWA is the airport oversight and operations department for the city of Los Angeles, California. This department owns and operates Los Angeles International Airport, LA/Ontario International Airport, Palmdale Regional Airport, and Van Interim Executive Director Kim Day. The board also postponed seeking proposals for a consultant to review the airports' procurement and purchasing procedures. Day also announced Spencer A. Ballard of John F. Brown Co., of Cincinnati, had been hired Jan. 6, for $99,000 a year, to succeed Richard M. Janisse, the deputy executive director in charge of airport concessions and properties, who resigned Dec. 1. - Daily News Spector hires new defense lawyer Music producer Phil Spector has hired Leslie Abramson Leslie Abramson (born c. 1944) is a famous American criminal defense attorney best known for her role in the legal defense of Lyle and Erik Menendez. In 2004, she was hired by Phil Spector, who is charged with fatally shooting actress Lana Clarkson at his suburban Alhambra mansion, , one of the nation's best known and most colorful criminal defense lawyers, to handle his murder case, ending his relationship with Robert Shapiro, Abramson told The Associated Press on Monday. - Associated Press Cameras banned in Peterson trial Cameras won't be allowed in a Northern California courtroom during Scott Peterson's double-murder trial, a judge ruled Monday during a brief hearing that ended with another delay in the case. Peterson told Judge Alfred A. Delucchi he accepted as ``a regrettable necessity'' a request to postpone the trial's start by at least a week because his attorney is defending another murder suspect. - Associated Press L.A. to get funds for orange alert The city of Los Angeles
Funds deposited to regional Federal Reserve Banks by commercial banks, including funds in excess of reserve requirements. Notes: These non-interest bearing deposits are lent out at the Fed funds rate to other banks unable to meet overnight reserve to cover public safety overtime and contract security personnel costs related to March's orange alert, Mayor Jim Hahn announced Monday. Officials estimate that the city has spent more than $7 million in overtime costs since the federal government initiated the terror threat level system. - City News Service Arnold says he'd help solve strike Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday he would intervene in Southern California's nearly four-month-long grocery strike if asked to but did not provide details about what his involvement would be. ``Right now, I'll let them try to hammer it out, because there are some smart people there that are working on that,'' the governor said in an interview with KNX-AM (1070) in Los Angeles. ``If they call me and ask me to intervene and to be an intermediary,'' he added, ``I'm more than happy to do that, because I think that we need to have everyone go back to work and normalize normalize to convert a set of data by, for example, converting them to logarithms or reciprocals so that their previous non-normal distribution is converted to a normal one. the situation.'' - Associated Press |
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