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A restoration team has completed work on the statue of Armed Freedom that was removed from the dome of the Capitol in May. The seven-ton bronze female warrior has been cleaned and restored and will be returned by helicopter to its regular perch on Oct. 23, said George White, architect of the Capitol. He said the scaffolding that has surrounded the 19-foot, 6-inch statue for the last 3 1/2 months will come down so the public can view it up close before it goes aloft again.

Ventura-based Essence Engineering Inc. has completed construction of three radar stations that will monitor tankers carrying oil between Point Arguello and El Segundo. Essence designed and built the sites at a cost of more than $500,000, according to the company's president, Richard Kasa. The stations are in Gaviota, the Rincon area and El Segundo. The system, designed to help Chevron USA tankers avoid hazards that might lead to spills, was given a successful dry run in July, Kasa reported.

After being closed for more than six months for renovation, the tennis courts in Griffith Park at Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard have reopened. All 12 courts have been rebuilt, but the stadium court will remain closed while the wooden bleachers are repaired. The other courts opened July 17. The 50-year-old courts received a $446,000 face lift, financed by the city of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.

Dan Ricabal pitched his second consecutive complete game to lead Cal State Fullerton to a 7-5 nonconference baseball victory over Texas on Saturday in front of 6,702 at Disch-Falk Field in Austin, Tex. Ricabal, who allowed six hits and four walks, struck out six for the sixth-ranked Titans (3-2). Jeff Ferguson hit a bases-loaded triple to highlight the Titans' four-run sixth inning and teammate Jim Betszold had three hits and two runs scored.

When her first-grader Jay seemed easily distracted from schoolwork, Gail Worrall didn't think much of it. Her son was a bright child: He could read and write before entering elementary school and had scored well on standardized tests. Yet "staying on task" was difficult for him, especially on writing assignments. But as the Falls Church, Va.

The city's broken sewage outfall pipeline, which continues spewing up to 180 million gallons a day of partially treated waste, may be repaired by early Saturday despite the recent series of rainstorms, officials said Thursday. Dave Schlesinger, director of the city's Clean Water Program, said that unless a new storm arrives to delay repairs, 20 new 20-foot sections will have replaced the sections that came apart for reasons that are still being investigated.

Inspector Scott McGill called the dilapidated three-story apartment building one of the city's "hard cases" as he walked down the bare floors of its long, narrow halls. Apart from graffiti, broken windows and leaking pipes, the building at 739 S. Coronado St. is long overdue for structural strengthening against earthquakes as required under Los Angeles law.

For years, state park officials, history buffs, Eagle Scouts and others have been helping to restore a leafy, five-acre spread in Encino which is all that remains of a vast sheep ranch run by two shrewd Basque brothers in the last century. Now the final touches are about to be applied to Los Encinos State Historic Park. The state budget recently signed by Gov. George Deukmejian includes $115,000 to finish restoring a 117-year-old bunkhouse at the park where ranch hands once ate and slept.

On a quiet street in West Newport on Monday, two huge white capsules lay on their sides like something from a science fiction movie. The two modules, 43 feet long and more than 14 feet wide, are full-size mock-ups of the living quarters and scientific laboratory for the manned space station Freedom, which NASA hopes to have operational by the year 1999.

A Los Angeles city panel deciding the fate of Treasurer Leonard Rittenberg finished its work Friday and sent its decision to the City Council, which will take up the matter on Wednesday. The Board of Referred Powers, which has been meeting in secret, has voted to fire Rittenberg for his handling of controversial city deposits in a bank that employs Mayor Tom Bradley, sources said last week.