• COURT TELLS SCHOOL TRUSTEE TO AVOID SON’S SCHOOL: SAN JOSE (AP) — A Santa Clara County court has ordered a local school trustee to stay away from his son’s school and the school’s principal.
Peterson Middle School Principal Susan Harris obtained a temporary restraining order against Santa Clara Unified School District board member Christopher Stampolis.
Harris obtained the order on September 24. Her application alleges Stampolis was aggressive, argumentative and made “violent gun-like hand gestures” when she confronted him in August about repeatedly being late to pick up his 7th-grader.
Stampolis tells the newspaper he was late a few times picking up his son, but insists he was polite to teachers and administrators. He has been on the Santa Clara school board for two years.
• PARENTS OF MODESTO BOY KILLED BY BUS FILE CLAIM: MODESTO (AP) — The parents of a 5-year-old central California boy struck and killed by a city bus while crossing the street in front of his school have filed wrongful-death claims against Modesto and the school district.
The claims blame the city for putting a bus route along a residential street with an elementary school. They accuse Modesto City Schools of ignoring complaints that children were at risk.
Alan Alexander Navarro Fernandez died March 26 outside Tuolumne Elementary. Authorities said the boy was crossing the street to meet his mother at her vehicle on the other side when he was hit by the Modesto Area Express bus.
• FIREFIGHTERS RESCUE WINDOW CLEANERS IN OAKLAND: OAKLAND (AP) — Two window-cleaners in Oakland are safe after a firefighter rappelled down a city high-rise to rescue them. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the two men became stranded outside the 19th floor of a 24-story Oakland building on Thursday. Firefighters say the motor on the men’s automatic scaffold had failed, leaving the men stranded for two hours.
At least one Oakland firefighter rappelled from the building roof to get safety lines to the men. Firefighters then hauled the men up five floors to safety.
• FALL HEAT WAVE BUILDING ON CALIFORNIA COAST: LOS ANGELES (AP) — Record-breaking heat has hit California as the state prepares for a sweltering weekend marked by Santa Ana winds and extreme fire danger.
The National Weather Service says new highs for the date were set Thursday in Long Beach, Oxnard, Santa Barbara and Santa Maria. Temperatures hit the mid- to high 90s.
It was 96 in downtown Los Angeles — but not a record.
Temperatures could top 100 in the valleys and lower mountain areas into Sunday, and there are heat advisories through Friday for above-normal temperatures in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The weather service has issued red flag warnings of fire danger through Friday for some areas because of heat, low humidity and Santa Ana winds gusting to 20 mph.
• 101-YEAR-OLD MAN KILLED IN LA HIT-AND-RUN CRASH: LOS ANGELES (AP) — A driver who allegedly hit and killed a 101-year-old man who was crossing an East Los Angeles street has been charged with vehicular manslaughter.
Prosecutors say Ricardo Avalos was charged Thursday with the misdemeanor and with felony hit-and-run driving. He could face up to four years in prison if convicted..
Authorities say around 6 a.m. Wednesday, a van driven by Avalos struck Jose Noriega as the 101-year-old man was in a crosswalk in Boyle Heights. Noriega died at a hospital.
Prosecutors say the van then drove off but a motorist who saw the accident followed and cut it off. A second motorist then took the driver’s keys.
• 3 ENTEROVIRUS CASES FOUND IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Three children in Northern California have tested positive for a virus that’s caused hundreds of illnesses nationwide and possibly several deaths.
Authorities announced Thursday that two Alameda County residents, both under 18 years of age, had contracted enterovirus D68.
A deputy county health officer, Dr. Erica Pan, tells the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1x4xBIh) both patients are recovering.
The third case is in Solano County, where health officials say a school-age child suffered from mild symptoms and wasn’t hospitalized.
They’re believed to be the first cases reported in Northern California. Others were in Los Angeles, San Diego and Ventura counties.
Enterovirus D68 can cause mild to severe respiratory illness. There’s no vaccine or specific treatment.
More than 500 cases have been reported in 43 states. Many patients have been children. Four people with the virus have died, although it’s unclear what role it played.
