assembly room

Carew beamed as about 40 family members and friends, including former Angels teammate Bobby Grich, cheered him on in an assembly room at the Federal Building in Santa Ana.

The trial of Sen. Robert Menendez grinded to a weeklong break Tuesday after federal court jurors who were treated to a brick-by-brick build of the prosecution’s bribery case got stuck in an elevator a day after they were forced from their usual assembly room because of flooding.

The elevator breakdown came as jurors were shuttled between floors to an assembly room because carpeting in their usual assembly room just outside the courtroom was found to be soaked Monday after somebody left sink faucets on over the weekend.

An 18th-Century cold bath, which may be the only one of its kind in an elite social meeting place known as an assembly room, has been uncovered.

A court official announced that the closed-circuit camera, which piped the hearing into a fifth-floor jury assembly room taken over for the day by the news media, had been turned on.