BRIEFLY FIELDS BOWS OUT AFTER LOSING RACE.Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. board member Valerie Fields, who lost a re-election bid earlier this month for a second four-year term, said farewell to colleagues, community members and parents during a special meeting at district headquarters Thursday. - Daily News Blum defamation suit withdrawn San Francisco financier Richard C. Blum
The claim against Grana will be formally dismissed after a hearing in federal court in Los Angeles next month. In January 2000, Grana and two other retired carpenters filed suit seeking to remove Blum and the others from the pension fund. - City News Service Man's body found beneath freeway MOORPARK - The decomposed body of a man was found Thursday afternoon in heavy brush under the connector bridge between the Ronald Reagan Freeway and Highway 23, officials said. - Daily News Auto repairman to be arraigned VAN NUYS - The operator of Warren Auto Body on Oxnard Street is scheduled to be arraigned July 25 on charges that he bilked an insurance company by charging it for work that was not done, a prosecutor said. - City News Service 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 votes to extend rail line The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board voted 10-0 Thursday to build an estimated $700 million light-rail line from 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 to the nexus of Venice and Robertson boulevards that could someday be extended to Santa Monica. - City News Service CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge to get funds to help deaf pupils NORTHRIDGE - The U.S. Department of Education has awarded California State University Enrollment  , Northridge's National Center on Deafness a $5 million five-year contract to help deaf and hard-of-hearing students make the transition to college and later to the work force. - Daily News Jaywalker jay·walk intr.v. jay·walked, jay·walk·ing, jay·walks To cross a street illegally or in a reckless manner. [From jay2, inexperienced person. struck, killed on Vanowen VAN NUYS - A man was killed as he jaywalked across Vanowen Street near the Hollywood Freeway on Tuesday night after being hit by a truck, whose driver was not cited, authorities said. - Staff and wire services Blaze damages produce market It took 27 Los Angeles city fire crews with about 135 firefighters just under an hour Thursday afternoon to gain control of flames that swept through an uninhabited part of the Central Produce Mart downtown, authorities said. - City News Service Crash victim gets help via phone 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 - A motorist who used a cell phone to summon help after being stranded overnight in an overturned vehicle in the Angeles National Forest was hospitalized in fair condition Thursday morning, authorities said. - City News Service DeVry offers free summer session WEST HILLS - High school students can earn college credit in Summer Scholars, a tuition-free summer session program offered by DeVry Institute of Technology. The seven-week course begins July 9, and students must register by July 7. Call Bruce Battle at DeVry/West Hills, (818) 932-3048. - Daily News |
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