Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe is pleased to announce that a baby girl was safely surrendered at a hospital in the City of Long Beach yesterday. (more…)
March 2008
Monthly Archive
Mon 31 Mar 2008
Long Beach hospital receives Safely Surrendered Newborn
Posted by admin under County of LA No CommentsMon 31 Mar 2008
Copper theft suspected in fatal explosion
Posted by admin under County of LA , Crime , Fire No CommentsAuthorities say a man has been killed in an El Monte fire and explosion being attributed to an attempt to pilfer copper wires.Los Angeles fire Inspector Frank Garrido says (more…)
Mon 31 Mar 2008
Three Arrested at Weekend D.U.I. Checkpoint
Posted by admin under Traffic/ Roadways , Sheriff [2] CommentsThe Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station conducted a D.U.I./Drivers License enforcement checkpoint Friday night. The checkpoint, which began at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, March 28, 2008, and concluded at 3:00 a.m. Saturday morning, March 29, 2008, was conducted on (more…)
Mon 31 Mar 2008
Commentary: Santa Clarita City Politics lacks Vision; it’s unsavory and counterproductive
Posted by admin under City of Santa Clarita , Politics , Dave Bossert [2] Comments
Watching and discussing some of the local political potshots over the last several weeks has left me with an even more distasteful view of the City of Santa Clarita political process. It appears that I am not alone in feeling that way either as several people around town have similar views as well. (more…)
Mon 31 Mar 2008
Treasury Rolls Out Overhaul of Financial Regulators
Posted by admin under Housing , National , Investing , Markets No CommentsThe Bush administration on Monday introduced the broadest overhaul of Wall Street regulation since the Great Depression, presenting a 218-page proposal that would, for the first time, create a set of federal regulators with authority over all players in the financial system. (more…)
Mon 31 Mar 2008
The West Ranch Town Council will hold their monthly meeting on Wednesday, April 2nd, at the Tournament Player Club in West Ranch located at 26550 Heritage View Lane in Westridge at 6:30 PM. The meeting will include the regular updates from the Sheriff’s Department, the California Highway Patrol, Parks and Recreation and various County Departments. Also on the agenda is an update on the IFA and Options Comparison reports. (more…)
Mon 31 Mar 2008
A Sharp View: It’s now or never for American soccer
Posted by admin under Chris Sharp , Local , Sports 1 Comment
In Babe Ruth’s final public appearance in 1948 – with Ruth ravaged to the bone by cancer, pushing words through a body that no longer wanted to hang around or do anything – the great Sultan of Swat turned into a kind of Nostradamus for a sold-out cheering crowd in Yankee Stadium. Baseball is a great game, he told the crowd in a quivering voice, through amplifiers filling the stadium, BUT only as long as we remember that baseball must serve America’s children first. (more…)
Mon 31 Mar 2008
2 Freeway Shootings, 1 Fatal, Extend a String in California
Posted by admin under Crime , Los Angeles , Traffic/ Roadways , CHP No CommentsA driver on a Los Angeles freeway was fatally shot in the head early Sunday, hours after another driver was shot in an attack about 30 miles away, the authorities said. The shootings were the latest in a string of attacks on Southern California freeways (more…)
Mon 31 Mar 2008
Toddler beaten in Palmdale; father in custody
Posted by admin under Crime , Sheriff , Antelope Valley No CommentsA 2-year-old Palmdale boy was clinging to life after being severely beaten and his father remained in custody, authorities said. The boy was in critical but stable (more…)
Mon 31 Mar 2008
Two widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs, Vytorin and Zetia, may not work and should be used only as a last resort, a panel of four cardiologists told an (more…)
Mon 31 Mar 2008
Clinton gains convert amid calls to pull out of Presidential Race
Posted by admin under Politics , National No Comments
When Bill Clinton was on the ropes over the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1999, Hillary Clinton famously alleged that her husband was the victim of a “vast rightwing conspiracy”. Yesterday Richard Mellon Scaife, whom many Clinton supporters see as the personification (more…)
Sun 30 Mar 2008
Democratic squabbles could give McCain a boost
Posted by admin under Politics , National No Comments
If ever the stars were aligned against a Republican winning the White House, 2008 is it. There’s war. And not just any war, but a war that a majority of the public firmly and consistently believes is not worth fighting and that has dragged on longer than World War II and (more…)
