BRIEFLY; CAR PLUNGES OFF 405, WOMAN, 25, KILLED.A 25-year-old woman died Friday night when her car plunged down an embankment off the side of northbound San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. in North Hills, authorities said. The accident at 10:45 p.m. happened just north of Roscoe Boulevard in North Hills, said California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. Officer Rosa Ray. Witnesses said the vehicle swerved off the road before it went off the side of the road, Ray said. Part of the Freeway was closed while authorities investigated the accident. Further details were not available. - Daily News USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. : ACCESS OK, AS LONG AS IT'S LEGAL The University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission says it will not block students from using a popular Internet site that lets people swap copyrighted music for free, but will order its use limited only to activities that are clearly legal. The university made the announcement Friday in response to a federal lawsuit filed last week by the heavy metal rock band Metallica that named it, Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was and Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. as defendants. The band accused the universities of encouraging people to pirate copyrighted music. Yale and Indiana were dropped from the action after announcing this week they would block access to napster.com. USC said in a news release that it will permit its students access to Napster ``only for demonstrably legal purposes from designated university personal computers and under university supervision.'' It was unclear just how the university would prevent students from illegally copying music. - 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. MAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER SHOTS ARE FIRED CHATSWORTH - A domestic violence suspect wounded in an exchange of gunfire with police in Chatsworth was hospitalized Friday. James Shea, 58, is expected to be booked on suspicion of attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. , 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 . reported. No officers were
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Shea's condition was listed as stable, but no further details were immediately available, according to the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. . Shea had refused to come out of his home in the 22300 block of Devonshire Street when police arrived about 6:45 p.m. Thursday to investigate a domestic violence call, said Los Angeles police Officer Ed Funes. Funes said arriving officers were met by the man's wife, who said her husband had a gun and had threatened to shoot authorities. About 8:20 p.m., Shea allegedly came out of the house and opened fire on officers who returned fire. He was not hit and went back inside. A Special Weapons and Tactics team was then sent to the scene. Shea emerged about 11:20 p.m. and opened fire on the SWAT team members, who shot him, authorities said. - City News Service SUIT FILED ON BEHALF OF RAMPART VICTIMS Former federal prosecutors and an attorney who specializes in officer misconduct cases have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department on behalf of alleged victims of a spiraling corruption scandal. It's unclear, however, whether such a lawsuit will be allowed because the circumstances of the plaintiffs' cases vary widely. If ``settlement class'' status is granted, plaintiffs can refuse to participate and pursue their cases independently. The alliance was formed between Stephen Yagman and the law firm O'Neill, Lysaght & Sun, whose three name partners are former federal prosecutors. Yagman represents eight people who charge in federal lawsuits that officers involved in the Police Department's Rampart station corruption scandal violated their civil rights. Yagman and the law firm filed the lawsuit Thursday. - Associated Press |
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