BRIEFLY CAMPFIRES BANNED IN FOREST OVER 4TH.The U.S. Forest Service announced Wednesday that it banned campfires in 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 through the Fourth of July Fourth of July, Independence Day, or July Fourth, U.S. holiday, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Celebration of it began during the American Revolution. holiday weekend, due to a tinder dry conditions and high fire danger. ``People can use portable stoves with gas, jellied jel·lied adj. 1. Chilled or otherwise congealed into jelly. 2. Coated with jelly. 3. Prepared or cooked in or with jelly. petroleum or pressurized pres·sur·ize tr.v. pres·sur·ized, pres·sur·iz·ing, pres·sur·iz·es 1. To maintain normal air pressure in (an enclosure, as an aircraft or submarine). 2. liquid fuel in developed camp and picnic sites only,'' said Jody Cook, a forest supervisor. The ban, including charcoal fires, goes into effect Monday. Smoking is allowed only in cars, developed campsites and picnic areas. - City News Service Awards program soliciting entries WOODLAND HILLS - Applications for the Fernando Award, the San Fernando Valley's most prestigious honor for volunteers, must be submitted by July 5. Businesses and organizations can send their nominations for the 44th annual Fernando Award to Michael Miller, Fernando Award Foundation president, State Farm Insurance, 4874 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Woodland Hills, Calif. 91364. - Daily News Drunk driver given eight-year term SAN FERNANDO - A Van Nuys man who killed a woman and her 22-month-old son in a drug-related New Year's Day New Year's Day, among ancient peoples the first day of the year frequently corresponded to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice. In the Middle Ages it was celebrated among Christians usually on Mar. 25. crash was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in state prison. San Fernando Superior Court Judge Alice Hill also ordered Troy Lee Shaw, 33, to pay $14,475 in restitution to the victims' family for funeral expenses, according to a court official. The judge imposed the sentence after Shaw pleaded guilty to two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter vehicular manslaughter n. the crime of causing the death of a human being due to illegal driving of an automobile, including gross negligence, drunk driving, reckless driving, or speeding. while intoxicated in·tox·i·cate v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates v.tr. 1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol. 2. , the court clerk said. Melissa Perez, 21, and her son, Alec Gonzalez, were struck after Shaw ran a red light at Sunland and Glenoaks boulevards in Sun Valley. - City News Service Camarillo woman held in bomb hoax OXNARD - A 24-year-old Camarillo woman was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of telephoning a bomb threat in April that evacuated a county probation building at 1400 Vanguard Drive in Oxnard, police reported. Diana Gomez was arrested when she went to see her probation officer Wednesday morning, police said. Police said Gomez phoned in the threat on April 15 to the office, which has equipment to monitor such activity. - Daily News Six are convicted in smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain plot A federal jury in Los Angeles on Wednesday convicted six Southlanders, including a North Hills woman, of conspiring to smuggle Ukrainians via Mexico into the United States. The five-woman, seven-man jury also found three leaders and organizers of the ring guilty of importing women for prostitution and money laundering charges. - City News Service Mother facing jail in chase with child PASADENA - A North Hollywood woman who led police on a chase with a toddler on her lap while high on PCP PCP abbr. 1. phencyclidine 2. primary care physician Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) was sentenced Wednesday to 360 days in jail or a live-in drug treatment program and three years probation. Pasadena Superior Court Judge Janice Croft imposed the sentence after Michelle Calderon, 34, pleaded no contest to felony evading and child endangerment for the April 11 pursuit, according to a court official. - City News Service |
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