Court Expansion: A “child friendly” interview room...
Court Expansion: A “child friendly” interview room to lessen the trauma to child victims is part of the Antelope Valley courthouse expansion project, dedicated Monday. . . . The newly renovated facility “exemplifies the benefits derived from active community-law enforcement partnerships,” said Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block. The facility also includes probation and family services offices.
* NIGHT RIDERS: For four years a group of cyclists has gathered as dusk falls on Tuesdays and Thursdays to ride mountain bikes through the Verdugo Mountains at night. B14
* NO BOOKS: Mayor Richard Riordan called the reported shortage of textbooks in the Los Angeles Unified School District “a crime” against the city’s schoolchildren. B1
* THE BOSS: Sixteen years ago Miguel De Leon started working on a Pacoima assembly line. Now he owns the company. D1
* TEXTS APPROVED: Textbooks inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, the center of a controversy over their use in Los Angeles elementary schools, have won preliminary approval from state education officials for use by public schools. B1
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