Pacific High School

The 21-year-old brother of a well-liked Garden Grove student teacher was arrested for allegedly killing her and setting fire to the family home, police said today. Callen Anthony Chase was booked into Orange County Jail for suspicion of murder in connection with the slaying of his sister, Claudia Chase, 28. Garden Grove and Anaheim officers arrested the man about 9:40 p.m. Sunday at the Amtrak station in Anaheim. Detectives would not say why they believed he had gone there.

Sophomore Jennifer Amrine scored a game-high 22 points with 13 rebounds to lead San Bernardino Christian to a 70-45 win over Pilgrim in a Southern Section Division V-A girls' semifinal game Tuesday at Pacific High School. Christy Greene added 20 points and seven rebounds for San Bernardino Christian. Dawn Fields, who scored 11 of her 19 points in the third quarter, had seven rebounds for the Heritage League champion Patriots, but no other player scored in double figures.

With the city's three new mini-skateboarding parks set to open within the next two months, city leaders on Monday will hold their first hearing on an ordinance designed to shield the city from injury claims. Under a 1997 state law, cities can protect themselves from liability claims at skate parks if they pass an ordinance and post signs requiring skaters to wear helmets, elbow and knee pads. Failure to wear the protective gear would subject skaters to citations.

On two occasions in 1985, prominent UCLA basketball booster and millionaire contractor Sam Gilbert told his son to deliver several large boxes to a bank president in Encino. No words were exchanged in the parking lot when Michael Gilbert pulled the sealed boxes from the trunk of his BMW and loaded them into a Mercedes-Benz driven by Jules Huppert, the head of Valley State Bank. Neatly stacked inside the boxes, court testimony would later reveal, was $1.

Los Angeles school police arrested a 15-year-old Pacific Palisades High School student Wednesday after authorities said he fought with a schoolmate off campus and then stabbed him with a jackknife. The victim, 14, was taken to a local hospital where he was listed in stable condition with a single stab wound and a collapsed lung. Police did not identify either youth. The 15-year-old suspect was booked by school police on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, said Sgt.

A flurry of particularly outrageous assaults by Ventura County gang members has pumped up community leaders' resolve to fight back. There's a role for everyone in this campaign. * Police quickly arrested five 15- and 16-year-old suspects in connection with an attack inside a Pacific High School continuing education classroom at the Ventura Boys & Girls Club. The search continues for three others who jumped a loaded school bus near Buena High School.

The City Council on Monday awarded a $120,000 construction contract to build three small skateboarding parks in the east, west and midtown sections of the city. The approval represents a promise kept to local skaters, who in recent years have been booted from commercial parking lots and downtown streets because of merchants' safety concerns.

Doug Wealch's coaching career has come full circle. On Wednesday, he was named the Poway High School boys' basketball coach--again. "It's a little strange, a little different, the second time around," said Wealch, 41. "I feel like Gene Bartow coming in after John Wooden." Neville Saner, the school's winningest coach, resigned on March 1. Saner had succeeded Wealch, who resigned 13 games into his second season with the Titans, in January 1983.

A search and rescue team discovered scattered human skeletal remains in the Mount Pinos area over the weekend and fear the bones may be those of a Ventura teenager missing since October. Authorities believe the remains are those of 17-year-old Nichole Lee Hendrix, an outgoing Pacific High School student who failed to return home moments after calling her mom to say she was on her way.