BRIEFLY LOCAL SERVICE SET FOR QUEEN MOTHER.A service will be held at 4:30 p.m. today for Great Britain's queen mother, who died March 30 at the age of 101. British Consul-General Peter Hunt is expected to read a scriptural passage for the Evensong service at St. James Episcopal Church Episcopal Church, Anglican church of the United States. Its separate existence as an American ecclesiastical body with its own episcopate began in 1789. Doctrine and Organization , 3903 Wilshire Blvd., in 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. . For more information, call (213) 388-3417. - City News Service Suspect in slaying jailed in Louisiana A Los Angeles murder suspect on the run since being suspected of stabbing a friend to death in September was arrested in the French Quarter in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , police said Saturday. Kimberly Strand, 36, was arrested Thursday night, authorities said. Strand, who was featured on the television show ``America's Most Wanted'' in January, was arrested without incident and was in Central Lockup See hang and abend. . Los Angeles police said Strand and a friend are suspected of the Sep. 24 killing. The victim, whose name was not immediately available, was beaten and stabbed to death in his Los Angeles apartment. - 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. City helping build low-income units THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - Officials will break ground Monday on a $2.6 million, 11-unit affordable apartment complex at 3302 Los Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
The two-bedroom apartments, each with 1.5 baths, a private back yard and detached covered parking, will be rented to low-income families. The city of Thousand Oaks contributed a $750,000 grant toward the project. - Daily News Burn should help restore local flora AGOURA - Firefighters are scheduled to ignite 200 acres in the Cheeseboro Canyon area on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as part of a prescribed burn, authorities said. The burn is expected to help restore native perennial grasslands and coastal sage scrub Coastal sage scrub (or simply coastal scrub) is a low scrubland plant community found in the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of coastal California and northern Baja California. in areas where exotic grasses have taken over, officials said. - Daily News Firefighters battle Griffith Park blaze Firefighters battled a brush fire just west of the Griffith Observatory in Griffith Park on Saturday, a Fire Department spokesman said. The fire, reported about 6:20 p.m., had consumed a quarter-acre of grass, said Bob Collis of the 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. . Further details were not immediately available. - City News Service Festival planned for Thai New Year The Thai New Year (Thai: สงกรานต์ Songkran) is celebrated every year on 13 April to 15 April. NORTH HOLLYWOOD - Thai New Year is scheduled to be celebrated today at Wat Thai Temple, organizers said. The Songkran festival runs throughout the day at the temple at 12909 Cantara St. - Daily News Fire damage set at $2.2 million SOUTH GATE - A fire at a plastics manufacturing firm that shot columns of flame 100 or more feet high and forced nearby residents to flee caused $2.2 million in damage to the factory and its contents, officials said Saturday. No one was hurt in the fire, which was contained early Saturday about four hours after it began. About 200 residents were allowed to return to their homes at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, police Lt. Darren Sullivan said. The fire briefly flared up again Saturday afternoon but was quickly knocked down. It was not known what started the blaze, which raged across an industrial yard owned by Productivity California. Hundreds of plastic containers and empty 50-gallon drums fed the fire, Fire Inspector Mike Brown said. - Associated Press |
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