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Week In Review

August 19, 2006
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One of his employees is still missing, he said.

 

  • Actor Haley Joel Osment, who starred in the 1999 movie "The Sixth Sense," was charged with drunk driving and possession of marijuana while driving on Thursday in connection with a July La Cañada Flintridge car crash, officials said.

     

    Osment, 18, was also charged with a special allegation of having a 0.15% or higher blood-alcohol content, and was charged with being under the age of 21 and driving with a 0.05% blood-alcohol content, said Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

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    The charges are in connection with an early-morning July 20 wreck, in which Osment crashed his 1995 Saturn into a concrete mailbox pillar.

    EDUCATION

    Glendale High School dance team coach Kelly Palmer and her staff will retire after this school year, ending her 10-year tenure.

    Her teams have won eight straight national co-ed and six national all-male dance championships, Palmer said.

     

  • Health insurance for employees will cost the Glendale Unified School District an additional $2 million in the coming year and angry school board members called for a review of services Blue Shield provides to the district, and for district administrators to establish some sort of accountability system.

     

    The $2 million represents an increase of 11% and an estimated $83 more in monthly premiums the district has to pay for each of its more than 2,000 employees, officials said. It also expands the district's annual cost for insurance to almost $23 million.

    The board agreed to submit a disclosure of health-care costs to the Los Angeles County Office of Education on Tuesday, sparking a heated dialogue between board members on the skyrocketing costs.

    Many factors are driving up the cost of health insurance and the district's increases are typical, Blue Shield spokeswoman Elise Anderson said.

     

  • Fourteen Glendale High School Associated Student Body members attended a California Assn. of Student Councils leadership conference at Stanford University, then took a side junket to San Francisco just to take in all the sites.

     

    It was the first time student-body members took such a trip.

    Students attended seminars in Stanford classrooms, learning topics such as goal setting, collaboration, conflict resolution, presentation, project planning and time management.

    Glendale students were split away from one another and placed in groups of eight with student-body members from other schools.

     

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