[0] BRIEFLY CRASH VICTIM KEPT ALIVE BY MACHINE.MALIBU - A 12-year-old girl who was gravely injured when her family's sport utility vehicle slammed into the back of a parked truck remained on life support Tuesday at her relatives' request. The Monday morning crash that left Andrea Alfaro brain dead killed two of her siblings, 13-year-old Virginia and 11-year-old Alexis. Sheriff's deputies initially reported that Andrea died Monday afternoon at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , Medical Center, but hospital officials later said she was being kept alive artificially. Andrea's relatives want her organs donated, and she will be kept on life support until they can be harvested, hospital spokesman Alan Eyerly said Tuesday. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Attorney may join oversight panel Civil rights attorney Connie Rice may assume David Abel's seat on the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Unified School District's Proposition BB Committee, which oversees $2.4 billion in new school construction and repairs, officials said Tuesday. Abel, who is leaving because of frustration with the committee's relations with the school board, said Rice might be more effective in dealing with the board. ``I'm hoping the friction that's existed between BB and the school board can be improved upon,'' Abel said. ``It's hard enough when everyone's working together locally and it's almost impossible when we're not.'' Rice, a longtime education activist who helped lead litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. that preserved more than $750 million in state construction funds, would take over as City Controller Rick Tuttle's appointment to the 11-member committee. - Daily News Authorities plan bottled water test Bottled drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. will be tested at random for arsenic, lead and the suspected carcinogen carcinogen: see cancer. carcinogen Agent that can cause cancer. Exposure to one or more carcinogens, including certain chemicals, radiation, and certain viruses, can initiate cancer under conditions not completely understood. chromium 6, Los Angeles County supervisors ordered Tuesday. - City News Service Groups want shift in appointments Concerned that reform of the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . could be stymied, a number of civil rights groups on Tuesday called on the City Council to change how the Police Commission is made up. The Coalition on Police Accountability said it believed there was a conflict in having both the police chief and Police Commission selected by the Mayor's Office. - Daily News Ruling allows suit over prison term A federal appeals court in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden said last week that a mentally disturbed man and his mother can sue authorities for civil rights violations. In 1993, Kerry Sanders Kerry Sanders is a correspondent for NBC News. He worked as a general news reporter for a number of Florida television stations including: WTLV in Jacksonville, Fl, WINK in Ft. Myers, WTVT in Tampa, and WTVJ in Miami. was arrested in Los Angeles and sent to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to serve out the sentence committed by a fugitive with his same last name and date of birth. - Associated Press Robbery suspects nabbed after alert OXNARD - Two suspects were taken into custody Tuesday after a robbery at a Washington Mutual bank in Oxnard Tuesday afternoon. Keith Armstrong, 39, and Star Premmer, both of Los Angeles, were arrested on suspicion of bank robbery, officials said. Before the two robbers entered the Washington Mutual branch in the 300 block of Esplanade Drive about 2:50 p.m. Tuesday, a quick-thinking bank teller inside tripped an alarm. The robbers entered the bank and shouted, ``Everyone, get down'' several times. One of the suspects jumped over the counter as the second suspect stood near the counter watching the employees, police said. The robbers fled in an automobile. Moments later, Officer Brian Ellison, who happened to be in the immediate area when the call came out, saw the suspects' car, which was stopped by officers. - Daily News |
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