Local News in Brief : Violinist Heifetz Improved

Violinist Jascha Heifetz, hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after surgery to remove two blood clots in the brain, is improving. A hospital spokesman, Ron Wise, declined comment on Heifetz’s illness, but a family member said the 86-year-old musician had suffered two falls at his Beverly Hills home that apparently caused the clots.