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Student Fires Shots, Takes Hostages At NorCal School
A dispatcher with the Butte County Sheriff's Department said the juvenile surrendered after the incident Friday morning at Oroville's Las Plumas High School.
Schools in the Oroville Union High School District were locked down while Deputy Will Brewton, who is stationed at the high school and is a trained hostage negotiator, talked to the hostile student on a cell phone.
Student Takes Hostages At NorCal School Police told reporters at a 1 p.m. news conference that the boy was carrying a .22-caliber handgun and pulled it out inside a classroom filled with 20-30 students. Watch News Helicopter Over The Scene .
Lee gets $800K in funds for Chabot space center Lee gets $800K in ...
OAKLAND Chabot Space & Science Center announced Tuesday that an award of $800,000 in federal money will help it expand its mission to inspire and educate young and old minds about planet Earth and the universe. U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, a member of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, secured the money as part of the Department of Defense Appropriations bill signed into law by President George W. Bush last month, said space and science center spokesman Robert Ade. Officials are still discussing how to best use the money, but much of it will go to expanding programs for elementary and middle schoolers. "We are really focused on addressing the crisis that we face in science education," said center Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer Alexander Zwissler.
Adam May
Award-winning anchor/reporter Adam May became a member of WJZ 13's Eyewitness News family in August 2003.In 2006, The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences named Adam "Best Live Reporter" in the Mid-Atlantic Region.He came to Baltimore from the home of the Kentucky Derby Louisville and ABC affiliate WHAS-TV where he served a dual role--weekday reporter and weekend anchor of the station's evening weekend news program.While in Louisville, Adam collected a number of journalistic awards for his reporting prowess. The Associated Press Kentucky chapter named him Best Reporter, an award that identified Adam as the best reporter overall in the Bluegrass state that year.Before Louisville, Adam worked in Huntsville, Alabama at WAAY-TV as an anchor/reporter for this ABC affiliate. His reporting focused mainly on the crime beat and investigative work.
Antonio E. Sandoval, Democrat
Since college, I have continued to give back to my community on the grassroots level. I am president of the homeowner's association for Arroyo del Sol; a member of the Albuquerque Public School's Citizens' Advisory Council; a Junior Achievement volunteer as a fourth grade teacher; an active participant in the Westside Coalition; and involved in the Bubble Gum Brigade, which goes door to door to educate people about APS bond elections. Professionally, I have worked with Democracia U.S.A. (formerly Mi Familia Vota), which is a non-profit organization that focuses on registering Hispanic Americans to vote and participate in the election process. I am currently the director of business development for Keystone International, Inc. Recently, through the work of Keystone, I was involved in keeping Cannon Air Force Base open and finding a new mission for the base.
Register Holding Claims Turboatom Representatives' Attempt To Seize ...
The Kharkiv-based Register Holding company, which is registrar to the biggest turbine equipment producer Turboatom (Kharkiv), claims Turboatom representatives attempting to seize stock register of their company. Olena Proshutia director of Register Holding has announced this at a press conference in the Ukrainian News press centre. She disclosed that facade of the building of the Register Holding's Kyiv affiliate was scribbled with rough obscenities and locks on entrance doors were filled with construction foam. "Next day Turboatom representatives Cherkaskyi Oleksii Yuriovych and Fedora Volodymyr Leonidovych security manager arrived. They attempted to seize Turboatom stock register system," she told. Proshutia also told that Turboatom representatives intended not to leave the premises of the Register Holding's Kyiv affiliate until they receive the register.
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