Push and pull of Section 8
Brittney M. Walker  |   OW Staff Writer
Nov 4 2010

Defend yourself in public housing

LANCASTER, Calif.—At last week’s Lancaster City Council meeting, Mayor R. Rex Parris asked Dorian Jenkins, deputy executive director of housing programs with the Community Development Commission of the County of Los Angeles, if there was a way to confiscate Section 8 vouchers from tenants who did not enroll their children in school. He asked Jenkins if he would look into federal enforcement of state laws requiring children to attend school. Parris said that it would be beneficial for the whole community. 
 

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Reward offered for information on 14-year-old Dominique Peatry’s murder
Nov 4 2010

Second reward also renewed

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—County officials are offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to  whoever fatally shot a 14-year-old girl at a birthday party, and they renewed a $5,000 reward in the case of a worker fatally stabbed at a medical marijuana dispensary.
 
Dominique Peatry, 14, and six other people, aged 13 to 26, were hit when someone fired about 15 shots into a crowd of about 40 guests at a birthday party in Lancaster Sept. 5. Peatry died, but the others survived their wounds.
 

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Antelope Valley Hospital Foundation announces gala
OW Staff
Nov 4 2010

Fundraising to expand services

LANCASTER, Calif.—On Thursday, the Antelope Valley Hospital Foundation announced it will host it a fundraising gala called, “The Beat Goes On.” 
 
The event will benefit the hospital’s Catheterization Lab (Cath Lab) suite expansion and will take place on March 12, 2011 at the prestigious Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.
 

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Police need help locating missing Lancaster man
Nov 4 2010

Missing from hospital

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Sheriff’s deputies are asking for the public’s help in finding a Lancaster man last seen at County-USC Medical Center Saturday night.
 
Willie Alfred Reed, 61, has dementia, high blood pressure, diabetes and pulmonary disease, and lives on Benald Street in Lancaster, according to deputies with the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau.
 
Reed is black, about 5 feet 5 inches, with short graying hair and brown eyes. He is missing his upper front teeth and some lower teeth, deputies said.
 

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