BRIEFLY : REFORM PANEL WANTS COUNCIL REVIEW KEPT.Under intense pressure from employee unions, Los Angeles' elected Charter Reform Commission voted Monday night to retain some form of City Council review of city commission decisions.Two months after the charter panel voted to repeal Proposition 5 - the council's power to overturn commission decisions - the panel decided Monday to draft some form of modified review process, possibly giving the council power to veto commission decisions, but not change them. The charter panel agreed to revisit re·vis·it tr.v. re·vis·it·ed, re·vis·it·ing, re·vis·its To visit again. n. A second or repeated visit. re the issue after more than a dozen union officials testified Monday that the council's review powers are needed as a check on mayoral power, which the panel has recommended increasing. - Daily News Parolee pa·rol·ee n. One who is released on parole. Noun 1. parolee - someone released on probation or on parole probationer suspected of raping landlady landlady n. female of landlord or owner of real property from whom one rents or leases. (See: landlord) WOODLAND HILLS - A 29-year-old parolee was arrested Monday on suspicion of raping his Canoga Park landlady, police said. Carl Darnett Johnson, who was on parole for kidnapping, rented a garage from a Canoga Park woman shortly after his July 20 release from prison, said Lt. Gary Hallden of 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. Police Department's West Valley Division. The landlady gave him a house key to use the bathroom. In the early morning hours of July 28, Johnson is suspected of going into the home and trying to choke the victim and threatening bodily harm The medical idea of (grievous) bodily harm is more specific than legal ideas of assault or violence in general, and distinct from property damage. It refers to lasting harm done to the body, human or otherwise, although in its legal sense it is exclusively defined as lasting before raping her, Hallden said. Police set up a perimeter on Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. between Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Canoga Avenue from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. before capturing the suspect Monday, Hallden said. - Daily News |
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