BRIEFLY SANTA LANDMARK COULD BE MOVING.CARPINTERIA - A half century after landing on a Highway 101 business roof, a giant plaster-and-chicken-wire statue of Santa appears headed for the trash heap unless a home is found by January. ``Like a mighty phoenix, Santa can arise again, but to do so he first must have a nest,'' said Robert Maxim, president of the Pearl Chase Society preservation group. The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. on Monday voted 4-0 to issue property owners Dr. Steven Kent and Nancy Rikalo a permit to remove the 10,000-pound figure from a candy store on Santa Claus Lane. It's been a highway landmark since 1950. - Associated Press Burbank inferno cause determined BURBANK - A $4 million fire at a business that refurbished X-ray equipment was caused by an electrical problem, investigators said Tuesday. It took nearly four dozen firefighters 90 minutes to extinguish the Feb. 19 blaze at Imaging Services Inc., which had moved to 3200 Valhalla Drive just four months earlier. - Daily News Intersection gets named for Wachs The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. on Tuesday approved the naming of a
downtown intersection in honor of former Councilman Joel Wachs. The
intersection of Grand Avenue and Second Street will now be called Joel
Wachs Square.
Wachs represented the eastern part of the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. for 30 years before resigning last fall to head the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . - Daily News DMV DMV abbr. Department of Motor Vehicles investigating sales of licenses SANTA PAULA - The state Department of Motor Vehicles In the United States of America, Department of Motor Vehicles (or DMV) is a commonly used name of the government agency of a U.S. state which administers the registration of automobiles (e.g., by issuing license plates), and/or the licensing of drivers (e.g. is investigating the wife of the city's mayor to determine whether she and others sold driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Court documents filed last week in Ventura County Superior Court reveal that authorities searched the home of Mayor Ray Luna and his wife, Rosemarie Mejia-Luna, who has worked for the DMV for 25 years. Authorities went to the couple's home looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. evidence that Mejia-Luna was allegedly part of a group that distributed the licenses between September 1999 and December 2000. Her attorney, Robert Schwartz, said his client denies any involvement with the group. - Associated Press Prison and fine for tax evasion A Woodland Hills man was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for evading taxes on about $1.1 million in income he got through an insurance fraud scheme, officials said Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Nora Manella also fined Joshua Shideh $30,000, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Arkow. Shideh, 36, pleaded guilty in October to charges that he evaded income taxes for two years on money he earned in the scheme, a prosecutor said. - City News Service DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection customers left powerless About 1,000 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving 3.9 million residents in 2006. It was founded in 1902 to deliver water and electricity supplies to residents and businesses in Los Angeles. customers in the western San Fernando Valley and Bel-Air were left in the dark Tuesday night, officials said. An outage was reported at 6:20 p.m. after a metallic balloon touched power lines and knocked out a circuit, said Winifred Yancy of the DWP. - City News Service |
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