San Dimas Ca

LOS ANGELES Bag of ladybugs sets off evacuation at LACMA Art lovers were evacuated from the crowded Magritte exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Saturday after a guard noticed ladybugs escaping from a Ziploc bag on the floor in one room of the gallery. Visitors were asked to leave about 1:45 p.m. and wait outside while workers cleaned up the insects, said Allison Agsten, the museum's media relations manager. They were allowed back in about 15 minutes later.

Two recent robberies of jewelry salesmen have authorities wondering whether the crimes are related. Two people robbed a salesman of about $900,000 in diamonds and other merchandise Friday night in his Valley Glen driveway. At least one was reportedly armed with a pistol. On Wednesday night, another jewelry salesman and his son were robbed in front of their San Dimas home. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Charles Jurcak said two people stole jewelry and a computer from the salesman's vehicle.

Three suspects have been arrested in connection with a kidnapping and attempted murder in the gang-related abduction and shooting of a 20-year-old woman, Pomona police said. The victim told police that she was forced into a car at gunpoint Saturday night in the area of Laurel Avenue and Weber Street in Pomona, driven to Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park in San Dimas and ordered to get out.

Samantha Palumbo lay still as a stone. She might as well have been dead. Above her head, a doctor held a needle. It contained Lidocaine, a local anesthetic. First some numbing, just in case she could feel, and then the doctor would insert a fiber-optic probe into what was left of Sami's brain. For nearly a week, Sami Palumbo, 16, had not moved. Her parents and classmates from her school came to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center and prayed.

The family of Samantha Palumbo, a teenager whose struggle to overcome a severe brain injury recently was profiled in The Times, will receive $9 million as part of a legal settlement reached this week with the city of San Dimas. Driving alone through San Dimas on April 8, 2005, Samantha lost control of her car and slammed into a city-built fence made of wooden logs. Parts of the fence pierced Samantha's car and her head, tearing away part of her brain.

A cyclist apparently lost control of his bike on a steep mountain road Sunday and plunged to his death 250 feet down an embankment into San Dimas Reservoir. A volunteer search and rescue team attached to the San Dimas sheriff's station assisted in recovering the body from a dry area of the reservoir, said Sgt. Raymond Roth. The accident occurred on San Dimas Canyon Road about 5:30 p.m. The name of the victim was not released.

Brush fires broke out Sunday in several areas around the Southland, prompting a traffic-snarling shutdown of the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 in southern Kern County and forcing evacuations of dozens of families there and in San Dimas. The Kern County fire, reported at 4:40 p.m., charred 550 acres on steep terrain on the west side of I-5, about a mile north of historic Ft. Tejon.

The story of a mother and her infant son plucked from raging flood waters after an inflatable rescue raft capsized took a turn Tuesday, with a firefighter blaming the woman for the accident. Television footage showed Erica Henderson struggling to keep her 8-week-old son's tiny head above water as the two were swept down San Dimas Creek after the raft, piloted by a firefighter, flipped in the roiling water on Monday.

San Dimas is a comfortable, modern suburb that holds tight to its Western roots. Along with the tract homes and strip malls, this San Gabriel Valley city offers a rodeo, horse trails and plenty of open space. Mysterious moniker The area was known as Mud Springs and served as a watering spot for animals when explorer Jedediah Strong Smith passed through in 1826. But the name San Dimas had taken hold by the time a town started developing in the 1870s. San Dimas is a Spanish version of St.

Sheriff's divers were scheduled to resume a search today for the driver of a car that plunged off a winding road into the San Gabriel Reservoir. A search and rescue team will use a boat equipped with sonar to try to find the vehicle, said Lt. Michael J. Rodriguez, of the San Dimas sheriff's station. Divers failed to find the car Sunday, after searching to depths of 47 feet.