Category: Government

The city of Palmdale’s Art Committee, in partnership with the local Girl Scouts, is seeking participants for an art contest in which the winning entries will be displayed at Gabriel’s House, one of the city’s Neighborhood Houses. Gabriel’s House is located at 38553 4th St.

The Lancaster Chamber of Commerce is looking for sponsors and parade entries for its Antelope Valley Fair Parade scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Aug. 20. The parade on The BLVD serves as the unofficial start of the Antelope Valley Fair and Alfalfa Festival Aug. 19-28.

A suspected drug dealer led authorities recently on a pursuit that prompted deputies to arrest him—as well as his father, mother and girlfriend.

The state Supreme Court has declined to review the second-degree murder conviction of a former Littlerock resident who owned four pit bulls that fatally mauled a woman nearly three years ago.

Sheriff’s traffic investigators are seeking the public’s help to locate any witnesses to a fatal traffic crash in Lancaster.
The collision took place at about 3:30 p.m. July 20, at the intersection of West Avenue G and 55th Street West, according to Deputy Lisa Jansen.

The Friends of the Palmdale Library will conduct its next monthly meeting at 4 p.m. Aug. 3 at the Chimbole Cultural Center, 38350 Sierra Hwy. The group meets on the first Wednesday of each month and, since 1977, has provided assistance which cannot be met by the city budget. They support programs to create enthusiasm for the library and to foster enrichment of the community.

A Mexican national convicted of the attempted murder of a peace officer was among 112 foreign nationals arrested in the Los Angeles area during a federal operation targeting “at-large criminal aliens,” officials said.
The four-day operation, which ended July 20, was conducted by personnel from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).