BRIEFLY TWO PEOPLE DROWN IN TWO STRAIGHT DAYS.BURBANK - Two adults have drowned in the past two days in unrelated incidents Unrelated Incidents is a series of poems by Tom Leonard. One of the more well-known of this series is "The Six o'clock news" where the poem takes the form of a Glaswegian reading the news autocue like a BBC newsreader. in Burbank - one in a home pool and one in an apartment Jacuzzi, said Lt. Bill Taylor of the Burbank Police Department The Burbank Police Department is the police department serving Burbank, California. Tim Stehr became the Police Chief of the department on August 1, 2007. The previous chiefs were Thomas Hoefel, David Newsham and Glen Bell. . Details were limited, but Taylor said that at about 7:40 p.m. Saturday, a man in his 40s drowned in a Jacuzzi at an apartment in the 3600 block of West Verdugo Avenue. At 11:30 a.m. Friday, a 75-year-old woman drowned in a pool in a home in the 7300 block of Harvard Road, police said. - Daily News Ribbons back up after complaints 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. - The yellow ribbons were back up in Thousand Oaks on Saturday, resolving a dispute between city officials and the mother of an 18-year-old Marine. Brenda Freeman and her supporters tied yellow ribbons a few days ago around a few hundred trees as a tribute to U.S. troops in Iraq only to have them removed by employees of the city's Public Works Department Many governments worldwide have had departments or ministries referred to as the Public Works Department either formally or informally. In Australia: - New South Wales -
Freeman, whose 18-year-old son Eric is in Iraq, and five friends who helped with the ribbon had run afoul of a·foul of prep. 1. In or into collision, entanglement, or conflict with. 2. Up against; in trouble with: ran afoul of the law. city rules forbidding garage sale signs, advertisements and just about everything else on trees in what is called a public right of way. But after angry residents jammed City Hall phone lines and harangued their council members Friday, the city backed off. On Saturday, Freeman and a number of helpers from the community replaced the ribbons. - Staff and Wire Services Suspect package found; mall cleared Police evacuated the Century City mall Saturday night after a suspicious package was found in a movie theater, authorities said. A bomb squad was sent to the West Los Angeles
No other details were immediately available. - Associated Press |
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