BRIEFLY : BAIL STANDS IN THAI SMUGGLING CASE.A federal court judge refused to reduce a $500,000 bond Monday for a Woodland Hills woman accused of smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain two Thai women into the country and treating them like slaves. Supawan Veerapol was indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. by a federal grand jury in April. She spent about two weeks in jail in May before acquaintances put up three properties to help cover her bond. But Veerapol's lawyer, W. Anthony Willoughby, said one property owner was ``experiencing a significant hardship'' because of the struggling Thailand economy. Willoughby wanted the bond reduced by at least $100,000. - Daily News Suspects sought in slaying of boy Detectives searched Monday for whoever fatally shot a 16-year-old Littlerock boy and wounded two of his friends a day earlier in Panorama City, officials said. Steve Alvarez was killed about 9 p.m. Sunday in the 14600 block of Vincennes Street after at least two men confronted him and his friends and yelled a gang name before shooting, said 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 Detective Jim Rahm of the Van Nuys Division. The suspects were described only as Latinos in their late teens. Alvarez's friends, 17 and 18, suffered gunshot wounds to their legs and went to Mission Community Hospital on their own, he said. Alvarez, a former Van Nuys resident, was visiting friends when he was shot. He was not believed to be a gang member, and it was unclear if Alvarez's friends were gang members, Rahm said. They refused to cooperate with police, Rahm said. - Daily News Prison term meted in strawberry case The head of a San Ysidro company whose strawberries caused an outbreak of hepatitis A Hepatitis A Definition Hepatitis A is an inflammation of the liver caused by a virus, the hepatitis A virus (HAV). It varies in severity, running an acute course, generally starting within two to six weeks after contact with the virus, and lasting no among Michigan schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school and a scare in Los Angeles was sentenced Monday to five months in prison and five months home detention. Frederick L. Williamson, 60, also was fined $13,698 by U.S. District Court Judge Leland Nielson. His company, Andrew and Williamson Sales Co. Inc., was ordered to pay $150,000 restitution and a $200,000 fine. Sale of the tainted berries to a school lunch program last year resulted in hundreds of illnesses among schoolchildren, particularly in Michigan, but also in Maine and Wisconsin. In Los Angeles, public health nurses administered the last round of hepatitis A immunizations, bringing the inoculation inoculation, in medicine, introduction of a preparation into the tissues or fluids of the body for the purpose of preventing or curing certain diseases. The preparation is usually a weakened culture of the agent causing the disease, as in vaccination against drive to a total of 8,489 shots. The inoculations were necessary because people at 18 schools had been served berries that were tied to a hepatitis A outbreak in Michigan. - 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. Meeting to address management plan The Northridge Business Improvement District is scheduled to meet tonight at CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge to allow business leaders and residents to review and discuss a management plan for the district. Topics will include how to improve Reseda Boulevard, particularly in areas of development, marketing and security. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Grand Salon of California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , at 18111 Nordhoff Street. - Daily News |
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