BRIEFLY WINFIRST TO INSTALL CITY'S FIBER OPTICS.City Council members have approved an agreement to build a state- of-the-art cable system that will provide television, telephone and high- speed Internet service to the city's 3.4 million residents. The 12-2 vote Tuesday authorized Western Integrated Networks, or WINfirst, to build the $2.2 billion citywide fiber optic network over the next eight years. - Associated Press Court upholds law for quake victims A law allowing thousands of Southern California earthquake victims to reopen their insurance claims was upheld Tuesday by a state appellate court. The court held that the law, which arose out of the scandal that forced Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush to resign, was an appropriate remedy for 1994 Northridge Earthquake victims seeking claims that had once been denied by insurance companies. - San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the Council OKs zone change for project Without debate, the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. approved a zone change Tuesday for a 33-acre industrial park project in Sun Valley. The park, at Branford Street and San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the , will include four buildings totaling 550,000 square feet, with 1,209 parking spaces. It is expected to host light manufacturing businesses, according to Council President Alex Padilla, whose district includes the property. - Daily News Subjects sought for prostate study WESTWOOD - Healthy men in their 50s and older are needed for what may be the largest-ever prostate cancer prevention study, which is being launched today by the National Cancer Institute and UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center. The Selenium selenium (səlē`nēəm), nonmetallic chemical element; symbol Se; at. no. 34; at. wt. 78.96; m.p. 217°C;; b.p. about 685°C;; sp. gr. 4.81 at 20°C;; valence −2, +4, or +6. and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial, or SELECT, seeks to determine whether the two dietary supplements protect against prostate cancer, the second-most-common form of cancer in men after skin cancer. - City News Service CHIME charter school approved Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. board members unanimously approved the petition for the CHIME charter school at its meeting on Tuesday. The school will be at the Cornerstone Christian Church at Parthenia Street and Winnetka Avenue. School directors, who are part of the special education department at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , say the ideal mix of students would be 20 percent disability students and 80 percent typically developing or gifted students. The school, which opens in August and is still accepting applications, will serve children from kindergarten to third grade. - Daily News PCH PCH Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria, see there lanes closed; water leak probed MALIBU - A quarter-mile stretch of an eastbound lane of Pacific Coast Highway Pacific Coast Highway may refer to:
The closure affected PCH between Big Rock Drive and Tuna Canyon Road, said Donna Guyovich of the county'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 -
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