BRIEFLY.High-speed crash ends with crash VAN NUYS - A man believed to be under the influence of alcohol led police on a five-minute high-speed chase Thursday night that ended when his pickup truck collided head-on with a minivan carrying three young women, police said. Nobody was seriously injured in the crash. The chase began just before 8 p.m. near Oxnard Street and Coldwater Canyon Avenue in North Hollywood when a man in a small truck was driving erratically, said Officer Jason Lee of the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . . ``During the pursuit, the officers had to back off, because he was driving at a high rate of speed and it was dangerous,'' Lee said. The chase ended five minutes later near Woodman Avenue and Burbank Boulevard in Van Nuys when his truck struck a minivan with the three women. The man, who was not identified by police, then exited the truck and resisted police commands, Lee said. He was tackled and arrested on suspicion of DUI and felony evading police, Lee said. - Daily News Tax preparer held in false claims VAN NUYS - Jose Ordonez Jr., a Van Nuys tax preparer, was arrested Thursday by the state Franchise Tax Board on suspicion of filing fraudulent state income tax returns, officials said. Ordonez, 31, owner of RLL (Run Length Limited) An encoding method commonly used on magnetic disks, including RLL, IDE, SCSI, ESDI, SMD and IPI interfaces. The actual number of bits recorded on the disk is greater than the data bits. Services, made fraudulent claims of the amount of Child and Dependent Care Credits The Household and Dependent Care Credit is an American nonrefundable tax credit that can be claimed if a taxpayer paid someone to care for a qualifying individual so that the taxpayer could seek to be gainfully employed. his clients were eligible for, allowing his clients to get larger tax returns, officials said. Franchise Tax Board agents sampled nine of about 1,300 returns filed by Ordonez in 2002. Ordonez was being held on $100,000 bail at the Sheriff's Department's Inmate Receiving Center, officials said. - Daily News Enrollment grows at 14 CSU See DSU/CSU. 1. CSU - California State University. 2. CSU - Cleveland State University. 3. CSU - Channel Service Unit. schools Fall enrollment in the California State University system California State University System, coordinating agency established in 1960 by the merger of individual California state colleges, now consisting of 23 campuses. climbed to more than 405,000 students, following a budget-driven decline last fall to 397,000 students. Higher fall enrollments occurred at 14 CSU campuses, with the largest gains occurring at Fullerton (up 2,296), Northridge (up 1,902), Long Beach (up 1,068) and San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. (up 931). The system's newest campus at Channel Islands grew by 554 students. - Daily News Campus cleared after bomb threat SAN FERNANDO San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. - A bomb threat Thursday prompted the evacuation of San Fernando Middle School until investigators determined that no explosives were at the campus. School personnel received an anonymous call late Thursday morning and decided to evacuate the campus at 130 N. Brand Blvd., said Monica Carazo of the 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. . About 12:30 p.m., the search of the campus was concluded and the evacuation ended, Carazo said. No bomb was found, she said. - City News Service Child-care center unveiled in Valley VAN NUYS - A child-care facility for government employees in the Van Nuys area was unveiled Thursday in a ceremony hosted by county Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. . The Van Nuys Civic Child Development Center took about 13 months to build and will host children of city, county and state employees. It will be fully operational in two to three weeks. The 7,125-square-foot facility was built on county-owned land for a cost of $3 million, Yaroslavsky said. Child Care Resource Center will run day-to-day operations at the new facility, which can take care of 90 children. There are 75 children enrolled in the program, although applications are still being accepted, said Juliet Mothershed, community relations 1. The relationship between military and civilian communities. 2. Those public affairs programs that address issues of interest to the general public, business, academia, veterans, Service organizations, military-related associations, and other non-news media entities. coordinator for the Child Care Resource Center. For information, call (818) 256-1045. - City News Service |
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