Palmdale and Lancaster have signed a memorandum of understanding with Antelope Valley College, Antelope Valley Union High School District, the Career Planning Center in Palmdale and the Employment Development Department to create a "one-stop" job service, the first of its kind in the Antelope Valley.
June 18
LANCASTER - English instructor John Hall is seeking money damages from Antelope Valley College trustees over his ejection from the June 9 board meeting.
LANCASTER - A Lancaster man has been charged with producing and selling child pornography videos from a home-based Internet business, prosecutors said this week.
LANCASTER - Antelope Valley Hospital's chief executive, Robert Harenski, increased his 1996 compensation 203% through a variety of benefits obtained in amendments to his employment contract, according to hospital district records.
June 19
PALMDALE - City Manager Bob Toone's contract was extended for three years Wednesday with no public comment, barely any council comment and a 4-1 vote, with Terry Judge dissenting.
LANCASTER - Four men escaped with an undisclosed amount of money after a takeover-style holdup of a Bank of America branch where employees and customers were forced to the floor with assault rifles Wednesday.
June 20
SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman George Runner asked the state to investigate Los Angeles County's courthouse construction program, in which more than $80 million has been spent on eight courthouse projects - including one planned for the Antelope Valley - without a single courtroom being built.
PALMDALE - An attorney representing Lockheed Martin Corp. said in a letter to City Hall this week that the company is frustrated by what it sees as an inability to proceed with a more than 600-acre industrial development in the northwest corner of Air Force Plant 42.
June 21
MOJAVE - The Mojave Town Council and Chamber of Commerce support a proposed gold mine on Soledad Mountain, following the Bureau of Land Management's release of the project's environmental impact report (EIR).
June 22
LANCASTER - The Antelope Valley's quadruplets will be a year old Tuesday, and their parents plan to celebrate with a visit to Antelope Valley Hospital where the babies were born, plus an evening birthday party in their Lancaster home, complete with ice cream, cake and happy spirit.
CALIFORNIA CITY - Residents and business owners tied to Edwards AFB must market the strengths of their communities and lobby government officials to stop the closure of military bases, a governor spokeswoman Judy Ann Miller said Saturday.
June 24
LOS ANGELES - Plans to privatize High Desert Hospital may be scrapped because the companies that had planned to take it over couldn't convince county officials they could run it for fewer dollars than the county does.
June 25
LANCASTER - Ground was broken Tuesday for construction of the $6 million Lance Camper Manufacturing Inc. plant. The 110,000-square-foot facility is on the southwest corner of Avenue K-8 and Fifth Street East.
LOS ANGELES - Two busloads of unionized workers from Lancaster-based Los Angeles County offices joined some 3,000 others for a massive march through downtown streets to protest a lack of raises in more than five years.
LOS ANGELES - Despite passionate pleas from activists opposing the plan, the county Board of Supervisors reversed a decision by the Regional Planning Commission barring construction of a sewage sludge-processing plant northwest of Lancaster. With a 4-1 vote, the board granted a conditional use permit for the plant to BioGro Systems Inc. of Irvine.
June 26
WASHINGTON - The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a $268 billion defense authorization bill that would pump more money into the B-2 bomber program, which was included in the bill over White House objections.
LAKE LOS ANGELES - Two young boys, believed to be lost in the rugged buttes since early Tuesday afternoon, were found safe just before noon Wednesday. They spent the night at a friend's house.
June 28
LITTLEROCK - An L.A. County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a suspected car thief Friday when he confronted an unidentified man wielding a shotgun during a 12:45 p.m. call near the intersection of 77th Street East and Avenue V.
LANCASTER - An 18-year-old Lancaster man was shot in the neck Friday by a gunman who wrongly believed the victim was a member of the Los Angeles-based Bloods gang.
June 29
CALIFORNIA CITY - The City Council is preparing to ask City Manager Steve West to become an "at-will" employee after his contract expires, Mayor Larry Adams said. The council has been considering the change "for about four months now in executive session," Adams said. "We don't know if Mr. West will accept it or not." If not, his contract will expire Monday and the desert community will have no city manager, he said. If he does, West will work from Tuesday until Dec. 31 with no contract subject to the continued approval of the council.
