Antelope Valley Press

The Antelope Valley Press, commonly known as the Valley Press or AV Press by its team and local residents, is the top daily newspaper in Palmdale, California. This family-owned publication started out as a weekly newspaper back in 1915.

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Lancaster DUI checkpoint nets 1 arrest, 35 citations

2 days ago | avpress.com | Julie Drake

LANCASTER — A Lancaster Sheriff’s Station driving under the influence checkpoint conducted Friday yielded one arrest and 35 citations. The checkpoint was held from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Sierra Highway and Lancaster Boulevard, which is near the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station. A total of 933 vehicles were checked during that period, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Information Bureau reported Monday. Deputies arrested one person for other criminal charges, felony warrant.
AV College opens huge Cedar Hall

2 days ago | avpress.com | Julie Drake

LANCASTER — Antelope Valley Community College District administrators and officials and guests on Monday celebrated the grand opening of Cedar Hall, the largest and most expensive project under Measure AV, the $350 million bond measure approved by local voters in November 2016.
City considers deal with AI service firm

3 days ago | avpress.com | Julie Drake

LANCASTER — The city could soon use artificial intelligence to analyze images of properties to identify and map issues such as blight, damage and graffiti. The City Council today will consider a recommendation to approve annual hardware and software costs for Community Preservation vehicle-mounted cameras and AI services provided as by City Detect for a proposed initial term of three years. The total fiscal impact is $113,300 per year, not to exceed $339,900 for the three-year proposal.
Royals headed to ’ship

3 days ago | avpress.com | John Sanders

QUARTZ HILL — Following the five-set, quarterfinal victory over Rio Hondo Prep on Thursday, Quartz Hill boys volleyball player Joseph Bonner said, “We must start the match against (Village Christian) the way we ended this match.”Quartz Hill dropped the first two sets to the Kares before winning the next three to advance to Saturday’s semifinals against Village Christian. Unfortunately, the Royals didn’t do that, but this time it only took them one set to figure things out.
Rosamond students enjoy new cafeteria

3 days ago | avpress.com | Julie Drake

ROSAMOND — When Rosamond High Early College Campus students returned to school during the COVID-19 pandemic nearly five years ago, distancing guidelines as mandated by the California Department of Public Health meant that the 1,400-square-foot cafeteria could accommodate only about 14 students at one time. At that time, there were two lunches for the school’s approximately 800 students; today, there are 847 students. Space isn’t an issue with the school’s spacious new cafeteria.
Trump seeks prescription drug price cuts

3 days ago | avpress.com | Amanda Seitz |Seung Min Kim

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to electively lower the cost of prescription drugs in the US or face new limits down the road over what the government will pay. The order calls on the health department, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to broker new price tags for drugs over the next month.
Orioles, Sugano shut down Angels

6 days ago | avpress.com | Mike DiGiovanna

ANAHEIM — Tomoyuki Sugano gave up one run and three hits in 7 1/3 innings, Gunnar Henderson hit a solo homer and drove in an insurance run in the ninth with a triple, and the Baltimore Orioles snapped a five-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night. Sugano (4-2) used a six-pitch mix to strike out five and walk none during a 93-pitch effort in which he threw 65 strikes.
Summit emphasizes importance of school

6 days ago | avpress.com | Julie Drake

LANCASTER — Students needs to take school seriously at any age and it is particularly important when they reach high school so they can focus on a college or career path. Agents of Change Community Coalition and Lancaster School District hosted a student empowerment summit Friday morning at Piute Middle School for eighth-graders who will start ninth grade this summer.
Spirits shut out Knights

1 week ago | avpress.com | John Sanders

LANCASTER — Wednesday was an emotional day for the Paraclete baseball team. There were tears shed, as well as hugs all around. You might’ve thought that the Spirits lost the game. However, it was quite the opposite. Paraclete won the game 6-0 against Desert Christian, but the reason for all the emotions was that the Spirits don’t know what their future holds.
Radiohead’s Yorke, Pritchard team up for ‘Tall Tales’

1 week ago | avpress.com | Jim Pollock

‘Tall Tales,” the first full-length collaboration between Radiohead singer Thom Yorke and electronic music pioneer Mark Pritchard, captures two prolific artists without much to prove and whole worlds left to explore. The project was conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Yorke and Pritchard, both working remotely, began exchanging and modifying sound files. A half-decade later, the collaboration journeys back into the isolation of that period and far beyond.