BRIEFLY : BOY BREAKS ARMS AFTER BALCONY FALL.ARLETA - A 6-year-old boy broke both arms when he fell 8 to 10 feet from a second-floor balcony Saturday, authorities said. The boy, who was not identified, fell in the 15000 block of Alda Place at 3:58 p.m., said Jim Wells Jim Wells MLA (born 27 April 1957) is a politician from the Democratic Unionist Party and a deputy speaker of the Transitional Assembly (Northern Ireland). Wells is one of six Assembly members for South Down. , a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. . The child was in fair condition at Childrens Hospital 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. , spokesman Steve Rutledge said. - Daily News Police identify man killed in car crash NORTHRIDGE - A motorist who was killed on Friday after hitting another vehicle was identified Saturday as 29-year-old Joseph Phillip Tignor of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. , officials said. Tignor was speeding east in the 18200 block of Nordhoff Street late Friday night in a 1988 Mercedes-Benz when he clipped the back of a van, overturned and was partially thrown out the driver's side window, LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Officer Mary Brady said. Tignor was pronounced dead at the scene, where police found an opened beer bottle between his legs, Brady said. - Daily News Millions awarded in harassment suit A jury awarded $2.2 million to a former Litton Guidance and Control Systems employee who said supervisors made anti-Semitic slurs. The harassment left Jeffrey Graber, 41, with depression so severe he will have to take Prozac for life, his attorney said. A Los Angeles County jury determined on Wednesday that Litton was liable for $1.6 million in punitive damages Monetary compensation awarded to an injured party that goes beyond that which is necessary to compensate the individual for losses and that is intended to punish the wrongdoer. . The panel earlier assessed the company $555,092 for loss of wages and emotional distress emotional distress n. an increasingly popular basis for a claim of damages in lawsuits for injury due to the negligence or intentional acts of another. Originally damages for emotional distress were only awardable in conjunction with damages for actual physical harm. . - Associated Press Supervisor seeks jail death inquiry Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke has called for an independent investigation into the Aug. 1 death of an inmate at the downtown Twin Towers jail. Burke is asking for Special Counsel Merrick Bobb to conduct the investigation. Inmate Danny Smith, 34, of Los Angeles, collapsed with his hands cuffed behind his back during an altercation with jail staff. Other inmates claim the staffers beat and choked Smith while he cried out that he couldn't breathe. An autopsy report is pending results of toxicology and other tests. The Sheriff's Department and the FBI are jointly investigating Smith's death. - Daily News |
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