BRIEFLY : BODY FOUND NEAR FREEWAY IN OXNARD.OXNARD - A police officer on patrol found the body of a man who had been shot at least three times in the abdomen and chest near Del Norte Del Norte can refer to multiple things:
The identity of the victim was not released pending notification of his relatives. Officer Tim Kelley was on patrol at 12:45 a.m., when he came upon debris that he thought resulted from a traffic collision. He found the man's body lying face down near the freeway, with several shell casings nearby. ``This is a situation where we have no witnesses and no suspects yet,'' said Oxnard police Sgt. Martin Meyer. ``It's important that we don't miss any of the physical evidence because that's all we have right now.'' - Daily News Consultant sees no voting illegalities SANTA PAULA Santa Paula (săn`tə pôl`ə), city (1990 pop. 25,062), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Santa Clara River in a fertile valley that yields citrus fruits, avocados, vegetables, flowers, nursery products, and walnuts; laid out 1875, inc. - The federal government will lose if it sues the city for alleged violations of the Voting Rights Act Voting Rights Act Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1965 to ensure the voting rights of African Americans. Though the Constitution's 15th Amendment (passed 1870) had guaranteed the right to vote regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” , a consultant said. Attorney John McDermott John McDermott may refer to:
In July, acting Assistant U.S. Attorney General Bill Lann Lee sent a letter threatening to file a civil rights lawsuit unless the city began electing City Council members via districts instead of at-large. The letter said the agricultural town of 27,000 has a history of ``racially polarized A one-way direction of a signal or the molecules within a material pointing in one direction. voting patterns'' that have hurt Latinos, who make up about 60 percent of the population. Only one of five council members is Latino, it noted. - Associated Press |
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