BRIEFLY SAN FERNANDO HAS NEW POLICE CHIEF.SAN FERNANDO San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. - Anthony P. Alba, a former Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . lieutenant and a spokesman for the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel.2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. , is the city's new police chief. He replaces longtime chief Dominick Rivetti, who retired in June. Alba, who retired in 1999 after 31 years with the Los Angeles department, will oversee a department of 39 sworn officers patrolling a city of 2.4 square miles. Associated Press Parents to stand trial in scalding scalding plunging of pig or poultry carcasses into very hot water to facilitate scraping and dehairing and plucking. Chicken scalding water is 130°F for broilers (larger birds higher) applied for 1 to 2 minutes. Modern pig abattoirs use steam at 144 to 147°F for about 3 minutes. VENTURA - An Oxnard couple was ordered to stand trial on charges they plunged their 3-year-old son into a bathtub filled with scalding water as punishment for soiling his pants. Alfredo and Maria Esquivel, both 26, are charged with seven felony counts, including torture, for severely punishing their son, who suffered third-degree burns over 20 percent of his body. - Associated Press Cantaloupe cantaloupe: see gourd; melon. brand tied to salmonella Health officials warned consumers Wednesday that Susie brand cantaloupe from Mexico has been linked to a salmonella poona outbreak, including one case each in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the fruit's importer, Texas- based I. Kunik Co., have issued an voluntary recall of Susie cantaloupe, the only brand of the fruit associated with the outbreak. - City News Service Conejo schools to cut homework THOUSAND OAKS - The Conejo Valley Unified School District Conejo Valley Unified School District or CVUSD is a school district in Ventura County. It serves Thousand Oaks, California and its subsections Newbury Park and Westlake Village. formally adopted a new homework policy that will reduce the amount of time kids spend on nightly assignments, starting next fall. The new policy calls for reductions in the amount of time spent on assignments, and ties assignments closer to district and state curriculum standards. A progress report on the new policy will be brought back to the school board in Spring 2003. Area schools will be notified of the new homework policy by mail in coming weeks, district officials said. - Daily News Woman on tarmac forces evacuation A terminal at Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX was evacuated for nearly two hours Wednesday evening as law enforcement officials tried to locate a woman who walked out on the tarmac. The evacuation of both floors of Terminal One delayed 11 Southwest and America West flights and affected about 800 passengers, said Nancy Castles, an airport spokeswoman Castles said the woman, who was not found, walked out on the tarmac shortly before 5:30 p.m. after opening a door near the first-floor baggage area and setting off an alarm. Terminal One houses flights by Southwest, America West and US Airways. Nine Southwest flights were delayed, along with two America West flights. - Associated Press CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan to take over bridge guard duty The California Highway Patrol and Los Angeles police will relieve National Guard troops of the post-Sept. 11 security duty at the Vincent Thomas Bridge The Vincent Thomas Bridge is a 1,500 foot (0 m) long suspension bridge crossing the Los Angeles Harbor in the U.S. state of California, linking San Pedro, Los Angeles, with Terminal Island. , Gov. Gray Davis said Wednesday. The transfer at the San Pedro bridge should be completed by May 31, he said. ``The Guard served an important transitional security role ... and I am grateful to the men and women of the California National Guard The California National Guard is the component of the United States National Guard in the U.S. state of California. It comprises both Army and Air National Guard components. for their service,'' Davis said. ``The California Highway Patrol will now take up their mission.'' Local authorities and the CHP also will take over duties from National Guard members at San Diego's Coronado Bridge and at the San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay, 50 mi (80 km) long and from 3 to 13 mi (4.8–21 km) wide, W Calif.; entered through the Golden Gate, a strait between two peninsulas. Bridge. - City News Service Surfers say they didn't OK photo Seven surfing legends suing Abercrombie & Fitch over the use of their images in a catalog testified Wednesday that they never gave the company permission to use the 1965 photograph at issue. The surfers allege the youth-oriented clothing retailer exploited their names and likenesses to market its products in its 1999 ``Spring Fever'' catalog. Abercrombie & Fitch claims it didn't know the surfers in the photo were ``celebrities'' and simply saw it as a ``vintage photo'' in line with the catalog's 1960s theme. The photo by LeRoy Grannis shows 12 surfers and the arm of a 13th at the 1965 Makaha International Surf Championship in Hawaii. They are wearing numbered T-shirts and shorts, and standing in front of their surfboards on a beach. - City News Service |
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