CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 17, 2009 | Ann M. Simmons
Determined to prevent the Mongols motorcycle club from using a Lancaster motel to host its annual meeting this weekend, the city's mayor has taken steps to shut down the establishment. Mayor R. Rex Parris said the members of the Mongols, which law enforcement agencies consider a violent biker gang, are not welcome in Lancaster because they "are engaged in domestic terrorism . . . and they kill our children."
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March 10, 2010 | By Richard Winton
A dispute at a Lancaster movie theater during a screening of "Shutter Island" ended with someone plunging a meat thermometer into the neck of the man who complained about someone sitting near him talking on a cellphone during the show. The incident occurred two weeks ago at the Cinemark 22 theater, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The theater was packed for a 9 p.m. Saturday screening of the Martin Scorsese film when the moviegoer complained about a woman near him using a cellphone.
SPORTS
August 20, 2003 | Ben Bolch, Times Staff Writer
An infielder for the Inland Empire 66ers could face felony assault charges after striking a Lancaster JetHawk pitcher with a baseball bat late Monday night, sparking a 25-minute melee that resulted in the suspension of a California League game in Lancaster. Inland Empire second baseman Evel Bastida charged the mound and struck Lancaster reliever Josh Kranawetter in the lower back after Kranawetter had hit Bastida in the back with a pitch during the 15th inning of a game Inland Empire led, 7-4.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 21, 1993
A Lancaster city official reported that the cost of cleaning up graffiti has escalated significantly, as has the number of graffiti complaints. Public Works Department Director Jeff Long told the Lancaster City Council that from July 1, 1992, to Dec. 31, 1992, the city spent $71,403 on sand, paint and labor to clean up graffiti-vandalized property. During the 1992 fiscal year, from July 1, 1991, to June 30, 1992, the graffiti cleanup cost the city $85,759.
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February 7, 2003 | Michael Krikorian, Times Staff Writer
A Lancaster woman and her son were killed and her daughter was seriously injured in a fiery collision on Sierra Highway in Palmdale, after their car was rear-ended and sent into oncoming traffic, authorities said. Myrna Bernardi, 28, and Kaylen Culver, 8, died at the scene after Bernardi's car was crushed Wednesday night by a 1-ton Dodge pickup, a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy said.
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July 10, 2003 | Sue Fox and Allison Hoffman, Times Staff Writers
A Lancaster child-care center operator whose two foster sons died of heat exposure was arrested and held on suspicion of child cruelty Wednesday as authorities tried to determine why no one noticed the children sitting in a sweltering sport utility vehicle next to the center for more than five hours. Leslie Sue Smoot, 48, was booked at the Lancaster sheriff's station late Tuesday, and bail was set at $100,000, said Lt. Al Grotefend of the sheriff's homicide unit.