©2012 Antelope Valley Press/Maya Sugarman
On Wednesday night, Feb. 1, 2012, Donald Handy was shot and killed by Sheriff’s deputies in his East Lancaster home on the 44900 block of Spearman Avenue, after officers entered the residence with a search warrant. TOP: Handy’s wife Phyllis Pearson sits in the bedroom on Thursday morning where her husband died hours before. “What do I do now?” Pearson asked. BOTTOM: Pearson holds a photograph of her husband, Donald Handy.
©2012 Antelope Valley Press/Maya Sugarman
A man was taken to the hospital after suffering knife wounds during an altercation on Elm Avenue south of Lancaster Boulevard at 11 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012.
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Antelope Valley’s goalkeeper reacts after giving up the first of three Palmdale goals within 10 minutes during a loss to the Falcons on Friday, Feb. 2, 2012.
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©2012 Antelope Valley Press/Maya Sugarman
Here are a few tear-sheets since I started working at the Valley Press in October. Friday after the next will be four months here so far!
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A man contemplating suicide was in a stand-off with Sheriff’s deputies for several hours, as he sat on the edge of the northbound 14 Freeway over Lancaster Boulevard on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. The man later surrendered to deputies, who took him into custody.
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Roads were shut down for several hours on Tuesday after an unmarked detective’s vehicle heading Eastbound on Avenue I struck a westbound car making a left turn onto 23rd Street West at approximately 11:30 a.m. The Sheriff’s deputy, who suffered lacerations on his head and right hand after being thrown into the vehicle’s windshield, was taken to a nearby hospital.
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The store manager of the family-owned Santa Fe Gun Galeria on Sierra Highway in Palmdale performs gun cleanings on Wednesday morning, Jan. 18, 2012.
©2012 Antelope Valley Press/Maya Sugarman
TOP/MIDDLE RIGHT: Desert celebrated a 62-46 defeat of Rosamond in a High Desert League showdown on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. MIDDLE LEFT: Bethel Christian fell to Riverside Prep, 63-24 on Tuesday evening, Jan. 10, 2012. BOTTOM: The two undefeated teams left in the Golden League faced off on Tuesday, with Antelope Valley celebrating a victory against the Bulldogs at Highland High School on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012.
