STRONG PENALTY: Crescenta Valley High football player...

STRONG PENALTY: Crescenta Valley High football player Alex Ghazalpour assumed he was being a good Samaritan when he took an injured teammate to the hospital after a game. Instead, he was suspended from the team, denied a letter and was not invited to the team banquet. The principal says Alex violated school policy, and had been warned before not to try playing paramedic. But he claims that he never received a warning. (C1)

NEW MEDALS: Quincy Watts will recapture the gold. The International Olympic Committee said Thursday that it would replace two gold medals that the sprinter lost when his family’s Inglewood residence was robbed. Watts, a Taft High School graduate and Calabasas resident, won the 400 meters and ran the second leg of the victorious 1,600-meter relay in the 1992 Barcelona games. (C14)

JUDGMENT DAY: Was Dorothy a vengeful Kansas brat who murdered the Wicked Witch in cold blood or a lost, innocent girl simply longing for home? A five-member jury in a fourth-grade class at Burbank’s Providencia School had to decide Thursday as part of a lesson on the criminal justice system. . . . The Tin Man, above, is sworn in by the county clerk to offer his testimony. (B3)

DOWNEY DEBUT: Never apprehensive about spicing things up, KIEV-AM (870) in Glendale will begin Monday syndicating Morton Downey Jr.’s Chicago-based national radio program live on weekdays from 2 to 3 p.m. Says KIEV President Ron Beaton: “We like controversy.” That’s for sure. . . . The station once carried Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy’s talk show.

EQUAL RIGHTS: Boys can’t monopolize all the fun in the growing universe of computer games. Now girls get a crack at new offerings such as “Beauty and the Beast” and “Barbie Super Model” especially designed for them. Video games serve as a perfect holiday gift, teaching problem-solving and creative skills. See Valley Life! Page 32