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May 18, 2010 – Daily Brief

By Jeff — Jeff Wilson

  • Children injured when Deputy slams into car recovering the Signal says. But the Sheriff’s station is staying mum on the collision, not even releasing the Deputy’s full name SIGNAL
  • The 35 year old woman who leapt to her death from the Via Princessa bridge suffered from mental health issues, a Detective says. Several witnesses saw the incident SIGNAL
  • The Hart District is thinking of employing drug-sniffing dogs in the classroom. Randy Cressall, a businessman who owns a car wash on Valencia Blvd, also apparently runs a new drug dog detection service, and he’s offering his dogs for free to the District. Here’s how it would work: students would leave the classroom, and the dog would come in and sniff their personal effects. The Supe says the program could act as a deterrent. SIGNAL
  • Calitics blog takes a look at registrations in the 8 Obama/Republican Congressional districts and in California’s Senate and Assembly districts ahead of November’s election CALITICS
  • California state Senator introduces bill that would require California Board of Education to watch for textbooks with content from Texas’ recent textbook decision. Like what? Well, the Texas Board of Education recently agreed to rename the slave trade to the “Atlantic triangular trade” according to the Guardian newspaper THINK PROGRESS
  • Squirrel knocks out power to 2000+ Saugus residents KHTS
  • Mount St. Helens erupted 30 years ago today and the pics make Eyepleyfleyjokdul volcano in Iceland look weak BIG PICTURE
  • Mayor Villaraigosa offers Lakers/Suns bet to Phoenix mayor over illegal immigrant bill. His offer if he wins is to donate Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman to Arizona LA TIMES
  • New BBQ place in town tastes like “mediocre theme park food. Or like school cafeteria food,” local food blogger writes LADY DUCAYNE
  • The Amgen Tour of California started on Sunday. SAC BEE has a nice photo spread showing you what we’re missing in SCV

Comments

16 · as published
  1. Timothy MyersMay 18, 2010 at 7:58 am
    On Drug Dogs: Over the years I have seen presentations from three K-9 officers in various law enforcement groups from LASD to the DEA and they sneer at these private “drug dogs” since the private groups don’t spend the money on the expensive training required to make a real drug dog (about $50K per dog.) Plus the dogs are used by multiple handlers (also lightly trained) and in the case of real drug dogs they have one handler that they basically live with full time to form the appropriate relationship. People have poor memories. For years the Hart District used a private service for tens of thousands of dollars per year and they NEVER found any significant contraband, which just makes enforcement look like a joke.
  2. DamageincMay 18, 2010 at 8:34 am
    A damn squirel took down 2000 people’s power? What the…?
  3. Timothy MyersMay 18, 2010 at 8:50 am
    That’s what put down the whole Northeast in 2003!
  4. DamageincMay 18, 2010 at 8:51 am
    There is something wrong with that.
  5. ScottEMay 18, 2010 at 9:15 am
    Friends don’t let friends eat bad BBQ. Thanks LD. Long live DLTS Comp Team!
  6. MoneyMay 18, 2010 at 11:53 am
    Real friends tell friends the name of bad restaurants and don’t make them guess.
  7. ScottEMay 18, 2010 at 12:40 pm
    Here you go friend: http://tinyurl.com/23opq5j
  8. ToddMay 18, 2010 at 12:12 pm
    There is only one way to eliminate the squirrel effect on power… And that’s to enclose the entire system. All the substations moved indoors, and the feeders underground. New substation switching technology has gone a long way toward making things much more “squirrel-proof” but until the whole system is protected from foreign debris of any kind, outages will occur. In Burbank, squirrels account for 4% of outages so far in 2010. Palm Fronds 40%, Mylar balloons 20%… (25 total outages ytd…)
  9. grumpyMay 18, 2010 at 12:27 pm
    Another rider down today.
  10. cashMay 18, 2010 at 1:46 pm
    By Signal Staff UPDATED May 18, 2010 1:31 p.m. A bicyclist wearing full colors was injured in a collision with a car just before 1 p.m. today near Rye Canyon Road and Beale Court in the Valencia Industrial Center, authorities said. The bicyclist was taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial hospital. The driver of the car remained at the scene, said Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. Daniel Stanley. No further information was immediately available, he said.
  11. ReaderMamaMay 18, 2010 at 2:10 pm
    And I’m betting he wasn’t riding on the sidewalk.
  12. ScottEMay 18, 2010 at 2:15 pm
    No sidewalk on Rye Canyon near Beale Ct. if I’m not mistaken.
  13. JeffMay 18, 2010 at 2:17 pm
    There’s no sidewalk in virtually the entire industrial center. Built as promised, by Newhall Land
  14. AlanMay 18, 2010 at 2:18 pm
    you are not allowed to ride yrou bike on the sidewalk
  15. cashMay 18, 2010 at 4:02 pm
    Yes you can, city changed the law to approve it.
  16. ScottEMay 18, 2010 at 2:18 pm
    Nope: http://tinyurl.com/5b8aue
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