LANCASTER - Chen Chi Wang, a co-owner of land sold to the city for a new fairgrounds, is named in a class-action lawsuit alleging he fraudulently sold undeveloped Antelope Valley land to thousands of U.S. and foreign investors.
LANCASTER - Chen Chi Wang, a co-owner of land sold to the city for a new fairgrounds, is named in a class-action lawsuit alleging he fraudulently sold undeveloped Antelope Valley land to thousands of U.S. and foreign investors.
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Pete Wilson vetoed a bill that would have allowed Antelope Valley Health Care District and other public care districts to sell, lease or transfer up to 35% of their assets to any for-profit corporation without a public vote.
Oct. 16
EDWARDS AFB - Air Force officials honored one legend and laid to rest another. While Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager was recreating his historic feat of shattering the sound barrier 50 years ago, President Bill Clinton was vetoing $39 million in funding to maintain the last two flying SR-71 spy planes.
Oct. 17
PALMDALE - A group of California lawmakers and representatives saw the hardships and hope for future aerospace work in the Antelope Valley as they toured Air Force Plant 42 and Edwards AFB. Dramatically illustrating what could happen to California if lawmakers don't strive to keep California competitive with other states, they were driven by bus through an empty, 1 millionsquare-foot Boeing North American hangar.
BORON - Officials at Boron Federal Prison, one of only two federal minimum-security prisons in California, said the facility will close within two years. According to a prison spokesman, the Boron prison is too expensive to maintain, so more than 500 inmates will be moved elsewhere, possibly to a new Victorville location.
Oct. 18
PALMDALE - Mechanical concrete-finishing machines roared in the background as ground was broken for Senior Systems Technology, which will relocate 300 employees from its 60,000-square-foot plant in Chatsworth to a $6.8 million, 130,000-square-foot headquarters here by next summer.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Los Angeles Police Department officer from Acton, apparently behind the wheel of a vehicle that fled after hitting a child and her mother, committed suicide when confronted by fellow officers, officials said.
Oct. 19
PALMDALE - State Assemblyman George Runner hopes to get the planned Antelope Valley courthouse back on track by introducing an urgency bill that would remove one of the roadblocks that, some say, has halted its progress. Runner wants the state to eliminate the prioritization requirements for funding and building courthouses in Los Angeles County.
EDWARDS AFB - More than 375,000 people, some of whom waited in traffic for three to four hours, showed up for Edwards Air Force Base's two-day Open House and Air Show.
Oct. 21
LANCASTER - The daughter of a California Highway Patrol officer who dedicated his career to stamping out drunken driving, was killed when an allegedly drunk driver ran a red light and slammed into her car.
EDWARDS AFB - Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in back-to-back performances over the weekend, recreating his milestone flight of 50 years earlier and making what he said would be his final Air Force flights.
Oct. 22
PALMDALE - There's a new economic development group in the Antelope Valley's future, but nobody seems ready to give many details. The new entity was discussed during a meeting of the Antelope Valley Regional Partnership.
PALMDALE - Space shuttles requiring extensive maintenance and modification will come to Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, according to a NASA report to be released next week.
Oct. 23
EDWARDS AFB - Two pilots died when two military jets collided during a training mission in which the two aircraft were shooting video of a B-1B Lancer releasing bombs. Lt. Col. William R. Nusz, who was assigned to the 419th Flight Test Squadron and flight Lt. Leigh Alexander Fox, a test pilot school exchange student from the Royal Air Force, died when their T-38 Talon collided with an F-16 Flying Falcon. The two F-16 pilots, who made an emergency landing, were uninjured in the collision.
Oct. 24
LANCASTER - A new program that could drastically curtail child abuse in the Antelope Valley received full support from the Antelope Valley Hospital board. The board voted 4-0, with director Larry Chimbole absent, to have hospital staff apply for a $954,000 state grant to fund a new approach to child-abuse prevention.
Oct. 25
ACTON - Despite having no official approval to do so, a group of residents will conduct a recall election in an attempt to oust the Acton Town Council's vice president. The recall election of council Vice President Kathleen Howald will occur, say the residents, despite the fact that Howald's seat is on the official ballot in the Nov. 4 election and she has chosen not to run.
Oct. 26
PALMDALE - Latest political campaign contribution reports of three mayoral and 10 City Council candidates show Shelley Sorsabal continues to lead in fundraising for the Nov. 4 election.
Oct. 28
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks suffered their worst tumble since the October 1987 stock market crash, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 550 points and prompting the close of equities trading for the first time since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
Oct. 29
LOS ANGELES - Two white supremacists, already serving time in unrelated racially motivated attacks in the Antelope Valley, were charged with a 1995 hate-crime murder in which a black man was bludgeoned to death outside a Lancaster fast-food restaurant.
Oct. 30
PALMDALE - The board of directors of the Antelope Valley Healthcare District has been advised by a consultant to "make adjustments" to the amount of money paid to Antelope Valley Hospital Chief Executive Officer Robert Harenski.
LANCASTER - If all goes as planned, ophthalmologist and former Lancaster councilman Forrest Hull will soon see the vacant 5acre land near the Hull Eye Center transformed into the green grass of a public park. The land was given to the city by Hull in 1978 for use as a City Hall site or municipal park, to be named after Hull's father, ophthalmologist Frank Hull.
Oct. 31
EDWARDS AFB - Researchers at Air Force Research Laboratory Propulsion Directorate are engineering a futuristic laser propulsion system that takes its fuel from the oxygen in the atmosphere, lab spokesman Ranney Adams said. A small laser-propelled aircraft flew its first outdoor test missions at New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range this past month.
