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Los Angeles Southwest College on Sept. 21 will begin a series of free professional work-readiness workshops to assist students in developing the skills needed to find employment and ascend the professional ladder.

The city of Palmdale has announced its fall schedule of bus excursions to various locations and events throughout Southern California.

Buffalo Wild Wings and four Black patrons have settled a lawsuit alleging that a White server in the Palmdale restaurant made a remark with racist undertones before demanding they pay or produce a credit card before she would serve them.
Attorneys for De’Andre L. Predom, Terrance Berry, Terry Brown and Darryl P. Douglas filed court papers this week with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rita Miller stating that the case was resolved.

While the nation pauses today to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks 14 years ago in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Shanksville, Pa., as well as the service members dispatched to the Middle East who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is concern that the victim compensation fund following the attacks will soon run out.

Despite the thunderstorms and heavy downpours that blew through the Antelope Valley region this week, the searing heat is expected to expand across the Southwest through early next week which only tends to worsen conditions for drought-stricken California.

Lancaster Sheriff’s deputies recently apprehended a 27-year-old man suspected of repeatedly pointing a laser beam at the cockpit of a commercial aircraft in flight. Authorities said the federal crime could have resulted in disaster had it not been for the “swift action” of the Sheriff’s Department which utilized Lancaster’s Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS) to quickly locate the source of the laser beam. The suspect was jailed on $25,000 bail.

Northrop Grumman in Palmdale has been recognized for its ongoing efforts to reduce industrial waste.