PALMDALE - Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, where F117A stealth fighters come for major maintenance and modification, is assisting the investigation into the crash of a radar-evading fighter at an air show last weekend.
PALMDALE - Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, where F117A stealth fighters come for major maintenance and modification, is assisting the investigation into the crash of a radar-evading fighter at an air show last weekend.
Legislation to allow smoking to continue in bars, taverns and gambling clubs until Jan. 1, 1999, went up in smoke when the state Senate adjourned without taking up the proposal.
LANCASTER - Welfare reform and a billion-dollar tax cut were tempered by defeats for his anti-crime laws during this year's legislative session, Assemblyman George Runner concluded at a press conference.
Sept. 17
EDWARDS AFB - An elevon - a movable surface used in controlling an aircraft by deflecting airflow at the back of the wing - was identified as the piece that broke off the Air Force F-117A that crashed at the Chesapeake Air Show.
LANCASTER - The number of maximum-security inmates at California State Prison Los Angeles County in Lancaster has doubled to about 2,000 criminals and will increase even more by October, officials said.
Sept. 18
PALMDALE - Los Angeles County has pulled the plug on design work for the planned Antelope Valley courthouse, a project that has consumed at least $11.5 million in public money since work began nearly a decade ago.
LANCASTER - They don't like it. They don't want it. But they will continue to offer it anyway. Lancaster School District trustees voted to retain two portions of the controversial Cross Cultural Language and Academic Development (CLAD) training program for teachers, and to require revision of a third part, considered most objectionable by some critics.
PALMDALE - Air Force officials awarded two contracts for an 18-month study of a military spaceplane. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, winner of the contract to build the next generation space shuttle prototype X-33, and Boeing Company's McDonnell Douglas Space Division will vie for the best concept.
Sept. 19
LANCASTER - Chit-chat over Cobb salads at a meeting of Republican women turned spicy Thursday when prison officials were asked to explain the increasing population of violent criminals behind bars and to discuss what measures are being taken to keep them there.
PALMDALE - Antelope Valley's Congressman said he received personal assurance from the Air Force Material Command chief that no one in the hierarchy is talking about closing Edwards Air Force Base and management of the base won't be consolidated at Eglin AFB, Fla., both raised as possibilities earlier this year.
A federal grand jury indicted a local sheriff's deputy who allegedly assaulted and pointed a gun at a man who was being treated in the Antelope Valley Hospital emergency room. Deputy Henry Meyers is charged with two counts of deprivation of rights stemming from a March 20 incident in which he allegedly accosted Guillermo Soto.
Sept. 20
LANCASTER - U.S. House and Senate conference committee members effectively annihilated any hope of building additional radar-evading B-2 bombers by giving the decision to President Bill Clinton, who threatened to veto a defense bill that included money for more of the black, flying-wing aircraft.
Sept. 21
Half of the 24 incidents in which Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies faced a barricaded person over the past five years have occurred since the beginning of this year, records show.
PALMDALE - More than 275 people representing 15 companies and organizations rallied at the Antelope Valley Mall Saturday morning to begin the United Way Antelope Valley Region's third annual "Day of Caring."
Sept. 23
LANCASTER - Nine months after its local home was closed and hundreds of cases transferred to faraway Monterey Park, a new and bigger Lancaster dependency courtroom was opened for business Monday with 12 cases being heard.
ACTON - Some Acton residents are up in arms over claims the community's town council is purposefully trying to avoid a recall election of its vice president. The group wrote Los Angeles County 5th District Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, whose office helps form rural councils, and requested an investigation into alleged "questionable actions" by the Acton Town Council.
LANCASTER - Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies respond to a call that ended in the shooting death of a man who allegedly came at deputies with a machete.
Sept. 24
LANCASTER - Authorities are investigating two cases in which women allegedly falsely accused sheriff's deputies of wrongdoing.
EDWARDS AFB - Except for birds, only NASA and civilian contractors will be flying over Edwards Air Force Base Friday when all military planes will be grounded for safety reviews.
Sept. 25
LANCASTER - Candidates in the April 14 Lancaster City Council election will choose to run for two-year or four-year terms under an amendment granted final approval by the City Council. The amendment also gives each candidate a voluntary 75-cent-per-resident campaign expenditure ceiling.
LANCASTER - Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti is being sued by a Lancaster man who claims he is owed $2,323.29 from the county's childsupport office for overpayment of his obligation.
LANCASTER - A Palmdale man was ordered Wednesday to spend 16 months in state prison for fraudulently bidding $27,000 for livestock at the Antelope Valley Fair and Alfalfa Festival and then trying to leave without paying.
City officials and rescue workers are preparing for what some climatologists predict could be the worst onslaught of rain to hit California in 50 years - El Nino.
Sept. 26
PALMDALE - Plans are under way to create a county-operated health care clinic to serve South Antelope Valley residents, especially those who lack health insurance.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House approved a $247.5 billion defense appropriations bill that would effectively kill future production of the B-2 bomber and give President Bill Clinton a way to extend the Bosnia troop deployment.
LANCASTER - Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies said they arrested a convicted sex offender after he was seen performing a lewd act near students at a Lancaster elementary school.
PALMDALE - The Antelope Valley Freeway's southbound lanes in Palmdale were closed for two hours when three crashes occurred in a downpour from tropical storm Nora. Some areas received more than an inch of rain.
Sept. 27
LANCASTER - Local congressional representatives spoke out against the Internal Revenue Service after three days of Senate hearings on complaints about IRS abuse of taxpayers.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - NASA plans to launch the X-33 reusable launch vehicle at Edwards Air Force Base and land it at sites in California, Utah and Montana, the space agency stated in a final environmental impact statement.
The preferred launch site is near Haystack Butte on the eastern end of Edwards, where NASA tests aircraft and has landed space shuttles many times.
Sept. 28
LANCASTER - Antelope Valley Hospital Board member Deborah Rice is asking for a formal, public discussion of the makeup of a committee created to review the compensation of hospital Chief Administrative Officer Robert Harenski.
LANCASTER - The head of Antelope Valley Hospital is paid three times more than the average pay of chief executive officers at hospitals throughout the United States, one national report shows.
BEVERLY HILLS - The Lancaster-based Society of Experimental Test Pilots honored two aerospace innovators with its most prestigious awards - one for work on the cutting edge of fixed wing civil aircraft development and the other for pioneering in helicopters.
VALYERMO - Surrounded by massive green trees and hidden from travelers on Pallet Creek Road, St. Andrew's Abbey opened its tranquil grounds Saturday to more than 12,000 visitors for the annual Valyermo Fall Festival.
Sept. 30
LANCASTER - Antelope Valley Union High School District Trustee Sue Stokka says an oversight is to blame for her unpaid reimbursement to the school district for copying expenses for a conservative school trustees association.
LANCASTER - More than 5,000 Los Angeles County social workers planned to strike in an effort to force the county to settle a dispute over caseloads and a pay raise.
