Marisol Aguilar  |   OW Contributor
Nov 18 2010

Horace Mitchell has long education background

Horace Mitchell, Ph.D., president of California State University Bakersfield believes in excellence. Serving his seventh year as president of the 8,000-student campus, Mitchell is also an advocate of higher education.

“Education is a prerequisite for individuals to be able to fully take advantage of opportunities, not just locally but in the world,” Dr. Mitchell said. “It provides a foundation for a good quality of life and supports economic development in the region.”

Nov 18 2010

Firefighters’ Highway

LANCASTER, Calif.—Two firefighters who were killed trying to protect their fellow firefighters stuck in the path of last year’s Station Fire had a section of highway through the burned area named after them.

The Angeles Forest Highway, also known as County Road S-2, was given the honorary name of the “Capt. Ted Hall and Engineer Arnie Quiñones Memorial Highway” at a ceremony at a Lancaster fire station.

Brittney M. Walker  |   OW Staff Writer
Nov 18 2010

Section 8 residents targeted

LANCASTER, Calif.—A few weeks ago Mayor R. Rex Parris said something at a Lancaster City Council meeting that rubbed some residents the wrong way. He asked a representative of the Department of Housing, if there is or could be a law instituted that would revoke Section 8 vouchers from parents whose minor children are not attending school. From there the backlash began.

Nov 18 2010

Attempted murder

PALMDALE, Calif.—Sheriff’s detectives are asking for the public’s help in locating two Lancaster men wanted in connection with the drive-by shooting of a man in Palmdale.

Byron Amerson, 26, and Jonathan Bolton, 27, are suspected of taking part in the June 26 shooting near Fifth Street East and Avenue Q-7, said Deputy Robbie Royster of the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station.

The victim was shot with a semiautomatic handgun three times—in a leg, wrist and scalp—but survived, Royster said.

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