BRIEFLY SPEED POSSIBLE FACTOR IN CRASH.A San Fernando man driving a Ford Mustang was apparently speeding before he slammed his car into a light pole and guard rail on the freeway Friday, killing himself and his 6-year-old son, authorities said Saturday. Gabriel Vargas, 23, his son Gabriel and passenger Alberto Sanchez, 24, were traveling north on 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. transition to the Ronald Reagan Freeway when the solo crash occurred about 2:50 p.m. Friday, according to coroner's reports and California Highway Patrol officials. The boy was declared dead at the scene, and Vargas died en route to a hospital, authorities said. Sanchez was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. All three were thrown from the vehicle as a result of the crash, which backed up traffic for more than four hours Friday. The body of the boy's father landed on the roof of a car traveling on Laurel Canyon Boulevard Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). underneath the freeway, officials said. The 81-year-old Arizona man driving that vehicle was unhurt, they said. None of the occupants of the Mustang were wearing seat belts and authorities believe excessive speed played a role in the crash, 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 Officer J.C. Lesnet said. - City News Service L.A. man named to water board A Los Angeles man who formerly served on the Metropolitan Water District board of directors was appointed Friday to the state's Regional Water Quality Control Board by Gov. Gray Davis. The governor's appointment of Larry Kosmont, 49, of Los Angeles, requires Senate confirmation. Kosmont is the founder of Kosmont & Partners, a real estate consulting firm that specializes in economic development. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Building Owners and Managers Association This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. . Kosmont is a former board member of the MWD, a consortium of 27 cities and water districts that provides drinking water to nearly 17 million people in parts of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties. - City News Service Police vehicles up for approval VENTURA - The purchase of two new vehicles slated for the Moorpark Police Department is expected to be approved Tuesday by the Ventura 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. . The vehicles, an unmarked sedan to be used by a Moorpark detective and a minivan to be used by the high school deputy, have been funded by the Moorpark City Council but will be purchased by the county. ``It's something that we've been trying to get through for a long time,'' Moorpark police Capt. Frank O'Hanlon said. - Daily News Record high of 71 set in Lancaster LANCASTER - This High Desert city set a record winter high temperature Saturday, reaching 71 degrees, the National Weather Service said. The temperature in the Los Angeles County city about 40 miles northeast of 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 edged the 70 degrees reached for the same day in 1969, the weather service said. In San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. County, Paso Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
- Associated Press Water main break forces evacuation MALIBU - A broken water main undermined a porch Saturday, causing it to break away, and forced officials to evacuate six homes. Authorities also shut down part of Pacific Coast Highway Pacific Coast Highway may refer to:
Five homes below the affected house also were evacuated and the northern lane of PCH PCH Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria, see there was closed as a precaution in case the house slides down a hillside. The collapse occurred about 2 p.m. after water soaked the ground around the house on Paseo Serra. No one was hurt, Angel said. - Associated Press |
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