PALMDALE - Anonymous and out-of-town donors are playing large roles for some candidates in this year's municipal election, campaign donation documents show.
PALMDALE - Anonymous and out-of-town donors are playing large roles for some candidates in this year's municipal election, campaign donation documents show.
PALMDALE - Residents living on the cool shores of the small community of Seal Beach want what Antelope Valley residents have plenty of: sand.
Planning is under way to ship nearly 115,000 tons of desert sand from a quarry in Palmdale to East Beach, a residential section of Seal Beach, where authorities from the California Coastal Commission said a lack of sand could cause flooding of homes and apartment buildings lining the beach.
LANCASTER - Los Angeles County social workers walked off the job and said they won't go back to work until their caseloads are reduced.
Oct. 2
LOS ANGELES - County government's largest labor union called off strike plans after reaching a tentative agreement, but nearly 3,000 child services workers in another union stayed off the job, forcing administrators to deal with child abuse emergencies.
LANCASTER - Antelope Valley College will host the inaugural McDonald's Charity Bowl Game at Marauder Stadium on Dec. 6, with half of the proceeds going to area school districts.
Oct. 3
LANCASTER - A Kern County air official is pressing the new Antelope Valley Air Pollution Control District for full enclosure of a compost plant approved in June by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
EDWARDS AFB - Rocket engines will again pound the ground at Test Stand 1-A, where large, advanced propulsion systems will be tested at the Air Force Research Laboratory Propulsion Directorate. A ribbon-cutting marked the beginning of the end of Test Stand 1-A's 25-year silence.
Oct. 4
PALMDALE - Investigators in the crash of an Air Force F-117 stealth fighter on Sept. 14 discovered it had a "significant defect" in a wing support structure, Air Force officials said.
HI VISTA - Authorities arrested a man they believe is the owner of a Hi Vista ranch where more than 45 pounds of methamphetamine and a stash of drugmanufacturing chemicals were found during a Sept. 26 raid.
Oct. 5
QUARTZ HILL - There was no panic, no one ran for their lives. Instead, they walked for them at the third annual American Cancer Society Relay For Life at Nicholson Field on the Quartz Hill High School campus.
Oct. 7
PALMDALE - An F-117 stealth fighter whose wing fell off in flight last month lacked some key components to keep it aloft. Several bolts that held the left wing in place were missing, according to published reports.
LANCASTER - More noiseless, nonpolluting, highly aerodynamic, space-age-looking electric cars may be zipping around the Antelope Valley in the next few months. The city of Lancaster announced the purchase of five electric vehicles over the next three months and the city of Palmdale announced it will purchase three of the vehicles as soon as next week.
LOS ANGELES - A Lancaster sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty in federal court to repeatedly punching a man strapped to an Antelope Valley Hospital bed. Deputy Henry Meyers, who also agreed to resign from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department within two weeks, faces up to a year in jail and a $100,000 fine when he is sentenced Jan. 5, officials said.
Oct. 8
LANCASTER - Retired Gen. Colin Powell, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be the keynote speaker at the Feb. 5 Antelope Valley Board of Trade Business Outlook Conference, officials announced.
ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST - Authorities destroyed an estimated $11 million worth of marijuana plants found hidden beneath heavy brush.
Oct. 9
LOS ANGELES - Palmdale officials are negotiating a settlement in a $4 million lawsuit filed against the city by Granite Construction following the failure of the westside Ritter Ranch planned community. The community was to contain about 7,000 homes on some 10,000 acres on Elizabeth Lake Road at 30th Street West. The project was foreclosed on in September 1996 and Ritter has since filed bankruptcy.
Oct. 10
LANCASTER - Directors of Antelope Valley Hospital voted 5-0 to have administrators cancel the district-issued credit cards they now hold and establish new rules for all hospital employees who use plastic to pay for job-related trips, meals and supplies.
LANCASTER - Darryl Kniss, a 57-year-old whose volunteerism stems back to his parents, was named Senior of the Year at the seventh annual Antelope Valley Senior Expo at the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds.
LANCASTER - Antelope Valley Hospital board members, administrators, staff and volunteers gathered to mark the beginning of work on an $11 million skilled-nursing facility for Antelope Valley senior citizens.
Oct. 11
BORON - Two F-15 fighters streaming smoke, a group of thirdgrade students and a blast from an explosion at the Borax mine all helped kick off the opening of the U.S. Borax Visitor Center. The center's inauguration also marks the company's 125th year in business.
LANCASTER - An afternoon carjacking in Lancaster went awry for two suspects who led authorities on an hourlong, high-speed chase before surrendering in the San Fernando Valley some 60 miles from where the pair forced a woman to give up her car.
Oct. 12
PALMDALE - Despite bonechilling wind sweeping in off the snowcapped tops of surrounding mountains, thousands made their way to the 12th annual Palmdale Fall Festival at McAdam Park Saturday.
Oct. 14
LANCASTER - An F-117 stealth fighter roared above Lancaster Boulevard, banked left and passed by again as city officials inducted five veteran test pilots into the Aerospace Walk of Honor.
MOJAVE - Singer-songwriter John Denver was piloting a plane designed in the Antelope Valley when he plunged to his death in Monterey Bay. Denver was alone in a Burt Rutan-designed "Long EZ," a pusher-propeller plane popular among homebuilt aircraft buffs.
LANCASTER - Three men, two of whom are U.S. Marines, were shot at early Monday as they left the Buffalo Club, a restaurant and bar on Division Street near Avenue J. The attack marked the fourth shooting in eight days in the Antelope Valley.
