BRIEFLY : ABUSE CASE FILED AGAINST VALLEY PAIR.SAN FERNANDO San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. - Charges of child abuse and false imprisonment false imprisonment, complete restraint upon a person's liberty of movement without legal justification. Actual physical contact is not necessary; a show of authority or a threat of force is sufficient. The person falsely imprisoned may sue the offender for damages. by violence were filed Tuesday against a 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. couple who authorities said beat a 3-year-old boy and locked him in a room without water or lights in 100-degree heat. The boy was rescued by a neighbor Sunday and has been placed in foster care, 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. County District Attorney's Office said. Prosecutors identified the couple as Elva Stella Huicho, 27, the child's mother, and her husband, Octavio Alberto Huicho, 23, of North Hills. The crimes allegedly occurred between Aug. 18 and Sunday. Authorities said the boy also was forced to kneel over feces and urine was poured over his head. - 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. Prop. 187 backers launch Davis recall NORTH HOLLYWOOD - A campaign to recall Gov. Gray Davis will hold its first meeting at 7 p.m. today, organizers said. The public session is scheduled in the Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn Hotel, 4222 Vineland Ave. A second public meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at St. Herman's Hall, 5657 Lindley Ave., Tarzana. The group launched its bid Tuesday to recall Davis for failing to appeal an adverse federal ruling against Proposition 187. Supporters of the measure to deny benefits to illegal immigrants said they think the U.S. Supreme Court would have upheld the proposition. Information about the recall campaign is available by calling (818) 501-2061 or at the campaign's Web site, www.recalldavis.com, the group's spokesman said. - Daily News Boxer says cleanup poor at Rocketdyne The federal Department of Energy should strengthen its environmental cleanup The process of removing solid, liquid, and hazardous wastes, except for unexploded ordnance, resulting from the joint operation of US forces to a condition that approaches the one existing prior to operation as determined by the environmental baseline survey, if one was conducted. standards for Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Laboratory, said U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., in a letter sent Tuesday to the department. The department's approved clean-up standards for the site, located between Chatsworth and Simi Valley, are lower than those applied by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and for other sites, Boxer said. A $148 million federally ordered toxic cleanup is under way at the facility. - Daily News |
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