BRIEFLY.7 girls arrested in fight at school NORTH HOLLYWOOD - Seven female students were arrested Monday at North Hollywood High School North Hollywood High School, originally called Lankershim High School when it opened in 1927, is a secondary school in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The school mascot is the husky, and the school colors are blue, white, grey. after a fight during lunch period, officials said. Nobody was injured during the fight, which involved about 15 girls, said Monica Carazo, a spokeswoman for 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. . Extra school police and officers from 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 . patrolled the campus Monday afternoon, and classes were
dismissed as usual at 3:40 p.m., Carazo said.
The cause of the fight is under investigation, Carazo said. She would not say if race was a factor. - Daily News Trial postponed in DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection scandal A federal judge agreed Monday to a four-month postponement of the trial of two former Fleishman-Hillard executives accused of overbilling the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving 3.9 million residents in 2006. It was founded in 1902 to deliver water and electricity supplies to residents and businesses in Los Angeles. . Douglas Dowie and John Stodder had been scheduled to go on trial before U.S. District Judge Gary Feess on Nov. 15. The judge granted defense attorneys' request to delay the trial to March 14 so that they could have more time to prepare. The November date had been set in June, after the defense lawyers said they would need a significant amount of time to review a vast number of documents and e-mails that may be evidence in the case. Prosecutors claim the DWP was overbilled by more than $300,000 between January 2000 and February 2004. Dowie, 57, headed the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. office of the international public-relations firm. He was also an insider in the administration of former Mayor James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California , who lost his bid for re-election in May. - City News Service FEMA FEMA, n.pr See Federal Emergency Management Agency. contractor may face lawsuit NORTH HOLLYWOOD - Two former employees of a North Hollywood call center, set up last month to aid Gulf Coast hurricane victims, claim they weren't paid all wages owed to them. Hugo Hernandez and Christina Villanueva claim in a proposed class-action lawsuit that they worked at a Federal Emergency Management Agency The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is the federal agency responsible for coordinating emergency planning, preparedness, risk reduction, response, and recovery. The agency works closely with state and local governments by funding emergency programs and providing technical hotline and then were laid off by TeleTech Government Solutions, which was under contract to run the call center, without being paid all wages due. A representative for Virginia-based TeleTech Government Solutions, which, according to its Web site, provides customer management programs, was not immediately available to comment on the allegations after business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a . Hernandez and Villanueva claim employees at the North Hollywood call center and a second location in San Diego were ``shorted'' on their paychecks or didn't receive them, or the checks were refused by banks. - City News Service Consultant gets prison sentence BURBANK - A former Burbank resident who admitted conspiring to obstruct the investigation into Reed Slatkin's nearly $600 million investment scam was sentenced Monday to four months behind bars. Business consultant Daniel W. Jacobs, 63, pleaded guilty three years ago in a deal in which he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the case against Slatkin. Slatkin, a co-founder of Earthlink Inc., was sentenced in September 2003 to 14 years in federal prison in the case, in which he admitted causing more than $240 million in losses to his victims during the 15-year scam. In sentencing Jacobs, U.S. District Judge Margaret Morrow took into account his cooperation with the government, but opted to give him a harsher sentence than the one recommended by prosecutors, who had suggested he be put on probation. - City News Service |
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