BRIEFLY : 2 BOMB SUSPECTS RACISTS, POLICE SAY.Police said Friday that two men arrested after 10 phony bombs were planted to scare minority residents and business owners into leaving the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. and Hollywood are part of a local group of white supremacists dubbed the ``Peckerwoods.'' ``They are a skinhead skinhead Member of an international youth subculture characterized by hair and dress styles evoking aggression and physical toughness. Typical skinhead style includes shaved heads, combat boots, tattoos, and prominent body piercings. type of group. They cause fear in the minority community,'' said Lt. Anthony Alba, a spokesman for 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 . . Justin Bertone, a 19-year-old Sunland resident, and Jeffrey Campbell Jeffrey C. Campbell (born 1960 or 1961) is currently the chief financial officer and executive vice president of McKesson. Campbell has been with the company since 2003, and previously worked at AMR Corp., where he held the positions of CFO and Senior Vice President. , a 36-year-old Burbank resident, are expected to be arraigned Monday in connection with several fake bomb incidents investigated by the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. over the past several months, Alba said. Although the bombs looked real, even to bomb experts, none was armed with explosives. The suspects also are believed to have made threatening phone calls to some of the minority-owned businesses where the bombs were found, Alba said. Of the 10 fake bombs, nine were placed in the San Fernando Valley. The 10th phony bomb was found in Hollywood. - Daily News Agency proposes ways to avoid spills A state Fish and Game Department official Friday proposed two projects aimed at helping prevent and clean up oil spills This is a list of oil spills throughout the world. Large Oil Spills to Date Oil Spills of over 100,000 tonnes or 30 million US gallons, ordered by Tonnes Spill / Tanker Location Date *Tons of crude oil link at ports in Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Diego. The first project the agency's Office of Spill Prevention and Response suggested would provide $3.35 million for federal and local agencies to improve the availability of port information. That would reduce the risks of ships colliding or running aground a·ground adv. & adj. 1. Onto or on a shore, reef, or the bottom of a body of water: a ship that ran aground; a ship aground offshore. 2. in state waters, said OSPR OSPR Office of Spill Prevention & Response (California Department of Fish and Game) OSPR Optical Shared Protection Ring OSPR Own Station Position Report Administrator Pete Bontadelli. The initiative would provide funding to collect data on harbor conditions, including tides, currents, wind, visibility, temperature, salinity, waves, vessel traffic and harbor construction projects, he said. - City News Service Police arrest wife in man's '83 death LONG BEACH - Nearly 15 years after her husband's body was found in a metal footlocker, a Long Beach woman has been arrested in Illinois for investigation of his murder, police said Friday. Lauranette Rashay Small, 43, was arrested Thursday in Morton, Ill., after police obtained information that led to her whereabouts, authorities said. Police had been searching for her since issuing a warrant in July 1983 - two months after her husband was killed. A federal warrant was issued for her last year when authorities suspected she might have left the state. Steven Small's body was found inside a metal footlocker in the San Bernardino County desert south of Barstow. - Associated Press |
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