BRIEFLY WOMAN KILLED IN RESEDA CRASH.RESEDA - An 80-year-old Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. woman was killed Wednesday in a traffic collision at the intersection of Tampa Avenue and Saticoy Street. The woman was a passenger in a Ford Contour The Ford Contour is a North American variant of the European Ford Mondeo sedan previously sold by Ford Motor Company. It was sold in North America from 1994 (as a 1995 model) through 2000. heading south on Tampa Avenue when it crashed into the side of a Mercury Mountaineer The Mercury Mountaineer is a near-luxury SUV manufactured by the Mercury brand name and owned by the Ford Motor Company. The Mountaineer shares many features with the Ford Explorer, and in terms of hardware, the vehicles are virtually identical. being driven east on Saticoy about 8:45 a.m., said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Sgt. William McAllister. A witness at the scene told police the driver of the Mountaineer had gone through a red light, McAllister said. No other injuries were reported. - Daily News Truck crash shuts 101 Freeway lanes AGOURA HILLS - The eastbound Ventura Freeway was briefly closed Wednesday when a semi-truck heading west crashed through the highway's center divider. No serious injuries were reported in the crash that occurred about 1:30 p.m. near the Kanan Road interchange. The California Highway Patrol quickly reopened four of the five eastbound lanes while crews cleaned up approximately 50 gallons of diesel fuel spilled in the crash. - Daily News City to help farmers relocate Calling it an ``unfortunate situation,'' the City Council on Wednesday promised to help relocate about 300 farmers facing eviction The removal of a tenant from possession of premises in which he or she resides or has a property interest done by a landlord either by reentry upon the premises or through a court action. from a large community garden in South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central Los Angeles, and is still sometimes called South Central. created after the 1992 riots. The council will look into finding an alternative space for the farmers, who began using the land - about the size of 14 football fields - when plans to build a trash-burning plant on the site were scrapped after community protests. The original owner, Ralph Horowitz, lost the site in the mid-1980s when the city invoked eminent domain eminent domain, the right of a government to force the owner of private property sell it if it is needed for a public use. The right is based on the doctrine that a sovereign state has dominion over all lands and buildings within its borders, which has its origins in to buy the land at 41st and Alameda streets for the incineration incineration the act of burning to ashes. plant. - City News Service Parks commission gets Griffith grant The Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Commission on Wednesday accepted a $149,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to develop new exhibits and educational programs at the Griffith Observatory. The bulk of the funding will be used to purchase a ``Cloud Chamber,'' renovate the existing ``Spark Chamber'' and create multimedia content for other exhibits, according to the commission. The grant funds will also go toward the purchase of a new solar telescope and educational materials for school programs. - City News Service Rover roll-out delayed for safety PASADENA - The Spirit rover will spend another week parked on the spacecraft that brought it to Mars, as cautious engineers work to clear a safe path for the six-wheeled robot to roll off and begin prospecting its rocky surroundings, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. officials said Wednesday. Further complicating the mission, new images from the spacecraft suggest its landing site is not the pristine dry lake bed scientists originally had hoped. That implies the robotic explorer's hunt for geologic evidence that the planet once was a wetter place conducive to life might be more difficult than expected. - Associated Press |
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