1.  State Police Thursday declined to comment on the tactical procedures used by the team, but said department procedures were followed.

2.  The Los Angeles County Fire Department is allowing firefighters to wear pins at the discretion of their station captains, said department spokesman Inspector Mike Brown.

3.  The next step for the brothers will be a state Department of Corrections screening at a Southern California prison reception center, said department spokeswoman Christine May.

4.  Powell will meet Friday with Gen. Robert Guei, leader the governing junta in Ivory Coast, said department spokesman Philip Reeker.

5.  Inmates and prison workers who smoke will be offered help in conquering their nicotine addiction, said department spokesman Leonard Sipes.

6.  It has no record of a John Tobin ever visiting the Bridgeport facility, said department spokesman Brian Garnet.

7.  Let loose, ferrets would compete for survival with wildlife, small game and water fowl, said department spokesman Steve Martarano.

8.  No one knows for sure, said department spokeswoman Jane Glickman, because there are no national standards for campus crime reporting.

9.  Organizers of the concert did not go through the proper channels within the Department of Prisons to gain approval, said department spokesman Howard Skolnik.

10.  The crews were concentrating first on major highways, said department spokesman John Dourgarian.