Stevenson Ranch

Re: "Offshoring Trend Casting a Wider Net," Jan. 4: American CEOs apparently do not care at all about their employees when they reward themselves handsomely for offshoring to countries like India. Why would these CEOs want to come up with new jobs here in the United States and lower profits? Can you imagine what would have happened after World War II if a U.S. company fired Americans and offshored jobs? The root of offshoring is corporate and executive greed. Wealthy individuals get richer from destroying the lives of their fellow countrymen when jobs are offshored.

An unrelenting wildfire jumped a fire line Tuesday in the San Bernardino Mountains and headed toward Lake Arrowhead, devouring homes and disease-racked forests in its path. Downcast fire officials said they appeared to be losing their battle for the alpine resort region.

Re "At Fresno Rally, Bustamante Switches Spotlight to Himself," Sept. 8: Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante blurs the line between legal and illegal immigrants to get the votes of the Latino community, yet he insults all the legal immigrants, Latino and non-Latino alike, who have respected the laws of the United States and spent years filling out forms and waiting -- and spending large sums of money -- to arrive here honestly. He also backs amnesty for illegal immigrants living in California.

Re "U.S. Suspects It Received False Iraq Arms Tips," Aug. 28: The claim by U.S. intelligence agencies that they may have been duped by bogus Iraqi defectors into believing that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction ranks right up there with O.J.'s search for the real killers. Why would Saddam Hussein mislead the U.S. with information that would lead to his own destruction? There is a far more plausible explanation. The neocons in the Bush administration wanted access to the second-largest oil reserve in the Middle East, a demonstration of our military might and a permanent base from which to operate.

I travel a fair amount and as a result must have missed the announcement that the Saturday Viewpoint is now devoted to the inane letter of the week. The letters last Saturday could have only been due to this new contest. For example: 1. The writer in Stevenson Ranch says that 85% of Angel fans are Dodger fans -- this must be the same reason that even the San Fernando Valley wants to leave L.A. One would think that the class the Angels possess wouldn't play well in Los Angeles. 2. Anaheim drove the Rams out of Southern California.

A mother was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment Sunday after her 3-year-old daughter was found in a parked car in Stevenson Ranch, where temperatures reached 100 degrees, authorities said. Anna Oryan, 30, is being held at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Santa Clarita station in lieu of $50,000 bail, said Deputy Juan Espinoza. About 4 p.m.

An intense fire and the mixing of crime-scene debris by sheriff's investigators made it impossible to determine what killed James Allen Beck, who exchanged gunfire with law enforcement officers in August at his Stevenson Ranch home, coroner's officials said Friday. Autopsy and forensic reports obtained Friday indicate Beck died before a fire believed to have been sparked by a tear gas canister engulfed the house.

Los Angeles County supervisors reacted sharply Tuesday to an internal report by the Sheriff's Department on the late-summer shootout in the Santa Clarita Valley, with one board member blaming federal agents for the death of a sheriff's deputy. Supervisor Mike Antonovich, who represents the Stevenson Ranch area where Deputy Hagop "Jake" Kuredjian was killed in the Aug.

A late summer shootout in a Santa Clarita Valley housing tract left a sheriff's deputy dead and endangered dozens of neighbors as authorities exchanged hundreds of rounds with a barricaded gunman. How did a seemingly routine search end so badly? Los Angeles County officials hope the answers are in a report by the Sheriff's Department, which is planning to release the results of a three-month investigation Tuesday. The gunfight began early Aug.