BRIEFLY FREE RIDES OFFERED ON CHRISTMAS EVE.The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's buses and trains will run for free at night on Christmas Eve to help promote safety and ease the holiday traffic crunch, officials said. Free rides will be offered from 9 p.m. to closing - which is about 2 a.m. on the rail lines and 5 a.m. on buses. For information, go to www.metro.net or call (800) COMMUTE. - Daily News Moorpark OKs plan for police station The Moorpark City Council approved plans Wednesday night to build a new $7.23 million police station in the city's downtown redevelopment area. The city will award the contract to Viola Constructors Inc. in Oxnard. A Los Angeles contractor submitted a lower bid, but under that bid, the building would not be constructed as planned, said Kenneth Gilbert, the city's director of development. Construction on the 27,000-square-foot building is expected to begin in January, Gilbert said. The building, which also will house the California Highway Patrol, is set to open in April 2005. - Daily News Firefighters battle fire near freeway CASTAIC - Firefighters put out a brush fire in the Castaic area on Thursday that prompted authorities to temporarily close part of the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. (5). The fire was reported about 11:30 a.m. north of Lake Hughes Road, according to 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 . It scorched scorch v. scorched, scorch·ing, scorch·es v.tr. 1. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. about 50 acres before it was declared out about two hours later, a dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. said. No structures were threatened, but the northbound freeway lanes were closed as a precaution, said California Highway Patrol Officer John Seumanutafa. - City News Service Cops seek gunman near Simi school SIMI VALLEY - Nearly 500 students at Justin Elementary School were placed on lockdown Lockdown A specified period when an employee of a public company is barred from selling - and occasionally buying - their company's stock. Notes: These types of equity transaction restrictions can be imposed by securities regulators or underwriting firms if a company has Wednesday - with lights out, windows and doors shuttered for nearly four hours - as police searched for a 22-year-old man believed to be armed and lurking near the school. The search began around 9:30 a.m. after Simi Valley Police received a report that a despondent de·spon·dent adj. Feeling or expressing despondency; dejected. de·spon  dent·ly adv. man who lived blocks from the school had left his home threatening to shoot himself and anyone ``who got in the way,'' said Sgt. Paul Fitzpatrick. The man was never found, even though about 25 officers combed a 10-block radius from Cochran Street on the north, Larch larch, any tree of the genus Larix, conifers of the family Pinaceae (pine family), which are unusual in that they are not evergreen. The various species are widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. Street on the south, Justin Avenue on the East and Erringer Road on the west for about six hours. - Daily News EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. role sought in field lab cleanup U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein has asked Administrator Michael Leavitt to continue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's involvement and support of the Santa Susana Field Lab Inter-Agency Work Group. The EPA announced last week it was scaling back its involvement at the site and would no longer chair the work group - in part because the agency has no legal authority over the cleanup. The EPA has said the Department of Energy's final clean-up plan doesn't meet the EPA's stringent standards and could leave the site unsafe for residential use as planned. Without the EPA heading the work group, some community members worry the group will disband and end one of the few public forums on the clean-up. - Daily News Agencies united against violence LOS ANGELES - City and county officials Thursday announced they are teaming up on a $1 million plan to combat gun violence in two of the area's most crime-ridden areas. Under Project Safe Neighborhoods Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) is a national initiative in the United States aimed at reducing gun violence in the United States. Project Safe Neighborhoods was established in 2001 through support from President George W. Bush. , a coalition of local and federal authorities will focus on two adjoining areas of South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central Los Angeles, and is still sometimes called South Central. - those patrolled by the LAPD's 77th Street Division and the the county sheriff's Century Station. ``The Project Safe Neighborhoods grant represents a smart investment in the safety and security of Los Angeles residents,'' said City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo. |
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