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JPL INVITES PUBLIC TO ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE Jet Propulsion Laboratory News Advisory WHAT: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., welcomes the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The lab will salute the 40th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 11 mission - the first human landing on the moon. JPL will also celebrate the International Year of Astronomy, a United Nations-endorsed series of events around the world that commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first telescope observations of space and planets by Italian scientist Galileo Galilei. Open House highlights include: seeing JPL's next spacecraft bound for Mars, the Mars Science Laboratory, in the lab's biggest "clean room;" talking to scientists and engineers who work on missions to destinations such as Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Earth's moon; and visiting JPL's Microdevices Lab, where engineers and scientists work in the wor...

Two incidents of the same scam have been reported in Old Torrance. Each incident has occurred in the evening and the suspect is described as an African American woman dressed in an medical smock frantically knocks on the door. She claims she lives down the street, but none of her neighbors are home. She just got a call --her husband is in construction and injured --or her husband was hurt at work and three of his fingers were cut off. She's got to get to the hospital in San Bernadino, but doesn't have enough gas. She needs money to get gas. She offers to leave her drivers license as proof that she'll pay it back. As it turns out she's hit the area south of Carson a few months ago and again this week. She claims to work at Harbor UCLA. The woman seems to cry a little and is in a "hurry up" panicked act--it is an act. As it turns out this same woman went to the same house with the same "emergency" a few months ago. So, far we know that she h...