LAKE ELIZABETH - Two men were killed and two more suffered serious injuries in an accident involving three motorcycles Friday. According to investigators, the motorcyclists were eastbound on Elizabeth Lake Road at speeds of more than 90 mph when all three riders lost control of their bikes near Munz Ranch Road.
Feb. 2
LANCASTER - A Lancaster meat cutter has joined dozens of local grocery workers and 2,000 others statewide in a class-action lawsuit alleging Albertson's Inc., a supermarket chain, failed to pay overtime wages.
Feb. 4
LANCASTER - A 9-year-old Down syndrome victim was killed when fire raced through his family's home in the Desert Sands mobile home park Monday morning.
PALMDALE - Jones Intercable began notifying cable television service customers of rate increases to take effect April 1.
SACRAMENTO - Assembly Minority Leader Curt Pringle, RGarden Grove, Monday named Assemblyman George Runner, RLancaster, whip of the Republican Caucus.
PALMDALE - Criminal mastermind is the wrong choice of words for the 17-year-old gang member arrested after a busy night defacing homes, apartments, utility poles and businesses. Seems he left behind his notebook containing graffiti sketches and his name and address.
Feb. 5
SANTA MONICA (AP) - A civil jury found O.J. Simpson liable Tuesday for the slashing deaths of his ex-wife and her friend, a moral victory for grieving relatives who felt the football great got away with murder. The jury ordered Simpson to pay $8.5 million in compensatory damages.
LANCASTER - The Antelope Valley YMCA at 25th Street West and Avenue J-8 would become a third campus for Desert Christian Schools under a proposal to be considered by the city Planning Commission.
Feb. 6
PALMDALE - Lockheed Martin Skunk Works turned a shovelful of dirt on a new 70,000square-foot building that will provide office space and warehouse areas for 150 people and house the C-130 Big Safari program.
Feb. 7
President Bill Clinton Thursday requested $265.3 billion - an amount Congress is likely to increase - for national defense during the upcoming fiscal year. No new production money for the B-2 stealth bomber was included.
PALMDALE - An F-117 stealth fighter with a vastly improved navigation system has been delivered to the Air Force on time and under budget, according to Lockheed Martin Skunk Works officials.
Feb. 8
PALMDALE - Boeing North American and Northrop Grumman officials are expected by the end of the month to sign an agreement for about 100 space shuttle workers to temporarily join Northrop's B-2 bomber team.
Feb. 9
Two Antelope Valley residents became celebrities in the Pacific Northwest after surviving a plane crash during a snowstorm in central Oregon Thursday. Dick Blankenship, 63, Jan Blankenship, 61, both of Green Valley, and their son, Johnny Blankenship, 33, of Lakeview Terrace, are all recovering in Portland, where they have been featured on the nightly news.
QUARTZ HILL - Officials from the Quartz Hill Town Council and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department met Saturday morning to kick off an intensive community policing program.
Feb. 11
PALMDALE - A plumber soldering a pipe in the wall of a Country Club Estates condominium sparked a fire that destroyed four units Monday.
SANTA MONICA - A jury heaped $25 million in punitive damages on O.J. Simpson for the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, saddling him with more than twice the debt even his pursuers say he can pay.
Feb. 12
EDWARDS AFB - A model of the revolutionary new engine that's supposed to power the nextgeneration space shuttle is set to be test-fired today. A 10% scale model of the so-called linear aerospike engine will be fired to determine whether Lockheed Martin's engine choice will be ready to power the VentureStar shuttle prototype.
LANCASTER - Concerns that the city's YMCA would become a boarded-up eyesore ripe for vandalism convinced a Planning Commission majority on Monday to allow Desert Christian Schools to use the facility as a high school campus.
Feb. 13
LANCASTER - About 60 social workers chanting "social work, not paperwork," picketed their Antelope Valley office Wednesday to protest what they say is excessive paperwork keeping them from the real job of helping abused children.
Feb. 14
VAN NUYS - Prison parolee Scott Douglas Hamby was found guilty Wednesday for the pipebomb killing of Pearblossom resident Lynn Standish.
PALMDALE - Alex Martinez of Palmdale received a standing ovation from a crowd at the City Council meeting Wednesday after he was presented with a commendation for heroism in thwarting a rape and robbery.
