Andrew Ramirez that he's a hometown hero, but that's just what a crowd about 200 of the former Kosovo POW's new best friends did anyway. In town at the invitation of the Palmdale Chamber of Commerce, Ramirez told what it was like to be a POW, with his hands and feet tied and his head hooded. Assemblyman George Runner said that the size of Los Angeles County's districts makes for distant government, so he wants to increase the number of county supervisors from five to at least nine.
Nobody likes it.
She was driven, and she had big plans for the future. When a child dies in a Los Angeles County foster home, nobody blames a politician. The blame will fall to the county's Department of Children and Family Services, because that's the agency that took the child from its parents, placed the child in a foster home and failed to recognize that the child might die there. Kevin Carney left his home near the Antelope Valley Mall and whipped his Dodge Ram pickup through the west side of Palmdale, racing at speeds in excess of 80 mph. That truck, and its contents, would become a significant component of evidence in the criminal complaint against Carney for the alleged sexual abuse of a 14-yearold girl.