Beach : 17/06/2009
16/03/2008 : 14 reasons to love this beach
Students were sent home from Huntington Beach High School on Wednesday after police discovered what appeared to be an explosive device.
Police were called to the school about 9:30 a.m. to investigate a report that a student was in possession of fireworks, according to Huntington Beach Police Lt. Russell Reinhart.
The school was evacuated – and students later dismissed – after police found what looked like a bomb.
A bomb squad determined that it was a fake device. Police arrested a student in connection with the incident and charged him with possession of a facsimile of a bomb.
The student was taken to Orange County Juvenile Hall.
– Kate Linthicum
Photo: A Huntington Beach firefighter gets into position while an Orange County Sheriff's bomb squad retrieves a suspicious item believed to be a bomb that forced the evacuation of Huntington Beach High School. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times.
A dead newborn baby was discovered by a trash collector Wednesday in a household bin on a residential Redondo Beach street near Pacific Coast Highway, police said.
Redondo Beach Police Sgt. Phil Keenan said the employee of Consolidated Disposal discovered the body about 9:05 a.m. on Irena Avenue during regular curbside trash pickup. The trash collector noticed the body while preparing to empty the bin.
Keenan said that the residential neighborhood is relatively close to heavily traveled Pacific Coast Highway and that it is possible the child’s body was dumped by someone passing through the area.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office has been called to the scene to assist investigators. A cause of death for the child has not been determined. Police did not say whether the newborn was a boy or girl.
Anyone with information is asked by Redondo Beach police to contact investigators at (310) 379-2477.
– Richard Winton
Photo: KTLA
More breaking news in L.A. Now:
Man sentenced for taking kickbacks at Los
Angeles Air Force Base
L.A. County probation workers elude punishment
for misdeeds
Michael Jackson's children never in any danger
from stun gun, attorney says
Woman slain by gunfire in Lancaster
LAPD apologizes to family of slain Sen. Robert
F. Kennedy for homicide exhibit items
Source : acekard