SOUTHLAND: BRIEFLY : POWER TRANSFORMER BURNS 2 YOUNGSTERS.Two 10-year-old boys were burned, one critically, apparently after being forced by a bully to go near a transformer at a high school in Watts on Saturday, the Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. said. One of the boys had burns over most of his body and was taken to Martin Luther King Drew Medical Center in critical condition, said Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey. The other was in good condition with flash burns on his face, Humphrey said. ``They told us they were bullied by another child and forced to go in or near this transformer,'' Humphrey said. No suspect was in custody, police said. The boys' names were not released. ?13Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Panorama City girl hurt in 2nd-floor fall PANORAMA CITY - A 7-year-old Panorama City girl was injured Saturday when she fell 12 to 15 feet from a second-floor apartment balcony, landing on her face on the concrete below, officials said. The girl was knocked out by the fall but regained consciousness after paramedics arrived, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey. The fall occurred at about 5 p.m. at a complex in the 7800 block of Woodman Avenue. The child was bleeding from the nose and seemed disoriented dis·o·ri·ent tr.v. dis·o·ri·ent·ed, dis·o·ri·ent·ing, dis·o·ri·ents To cause (a person, for example) to experience disorientation. Adj. 1. after the incident, so firefighters transported her to nearby Ranchito Avenue School for transport by air ambulance air ambulance Emergency medicine A helicopter or, less commonly, a fixed wing aircraft, used to evacuate a person who requires immediate medical attention that cannot be provided at his/her current location to Childrens Hospital of 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. , Humphrey said. ?13Daily News Minimum wage now $5 an hour People making minimum wage started making an extra 25 cents an hour Saturday as a result of a state ballot proposition approved by voters in November. Proposition 210, authored by Sen. Hilda Solis Hilda L. Solis (born October 20 1957), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing the 32nd District of California (map). , D-El Monte, requires the state's minimum wage to increase from $4.75 to $5 an hour. The federal poverty level of a family of three is $13,000, Solis said. A full-time employee who earns $4.75 an hour makes $9,880 a year. She said survival for a family of three requires at least $6.50 an hour to stay above the poverty line. ?13City News Service Human skull In humans, the adult skull is normally made up of 22 bones. Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined together by sutures, synarthrodial (immovable) joints formed by bony ossification, with Sharpey's fibres permitting some flexibility. found by hikers in park TOPANGA STATE PARK Topanga State Park is a California state park located in Los Angeles County. It is located adjacent to the unincorporated community of Topanga, California, within the city of Los Angeles, California. Covering 11,000 acres (45 km²) it is the largest state park within city limits. - Hikers found an apparent human skull in a creek in a remote area of Topanga State Park, and a Sheriff's Department helicopter crew recovered it today, a department spokesman said. The skull was discovered in the past few days, Sgt. Mike Parker Michael Parker (b. October 31, 1949) is a politician from the state of Mississippi. Parker was born in Laurel, Mississippi and he graduated from William Carey College with a BA in English in 1970. said, adding the location is about an hour walk from the nearest road. ``The human remains appeared to have been there for an extended period of time,'' the spokesman said. A crew in a Sheriff's Department rescue helicopter recovered the skull about 1:30 p.m. and turned it over to the coroner's office for investigation, Parker said. ?13City News Service Gore invitation irks state Republicans SACRAMENTO - In a move that is raising Republican eyebrows, Vice President Al Gore has accepted a Democratic invitation to speak March 13 to a joint session of the California Legislature. Senate President Pro Tem president pro tem n. pl. presidents pro tem Informal A president pro tempore. Bill Lockyer, D-Hayward, extended the invitation to Gore when the two visited last year in Washington, D.C., Lockyer spokesman Sandy Harrison said Tuesday. Gore is considered a likely contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000. But both Harrison and Gore spokeswoman Ginny Terzano said there wasn't any partisan political motive behind next month's speech. ``That's just ridiculous,'' Terzano said, adding that Gore planned to speak to the Democratic-controlled Legislature on President Clinton's education agenda. ?13Scripps-McClatchy Western Service |
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