BRIEFLY : CITY SUES NIGHTCLUBS IN POSTING OF FLIERS.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. City Attorney's Office has filed charges against the corporate owner of the House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically , a West Hollywood West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. nightclub, and two of its employees for allegedly violating a city ordinance that prohibits posting of signs on public property. Department of Building and Safety inspectors first noticed signs promoting a concert at the House of Blues posted on Department of Water and Power utility poles in 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 elsewhere in the city on June 24, officials said. On July 8, Building and Safety officials issued an order demanding the signs be removed, and a City Attorney's Office hearing was held July 23. Officials in City Attorney James Hahn's office said the decision to file criminal charges was made when Building and Safety officials discovered on July 27 that the signs still had not been removed. - Daily News Lancaster man dies in daughters' rescue A 51-year-old Lancaster man died Saturday while trying to save his daughters from a strong rip current at Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area in Arroyo Grande, authorities said. Yousef George Zakaria was able to retrieve his 17-year-old daughter from the ocean, but then collapsed as he jumped back in to help another teen-age daughter, according to the California Department of Parks and Recreation The California Department of Parks and Recreation manages the California state parks system, which contains 280 parks and 1.4 million acres (5,700 km²), with over 280 miles of coastline; 625 miles of lake and river frontage; nearly 15,000 campsites; and 3,000 miles of hiking, . A person at the beach helped Zakaria to shore, but the father lost consciousness. State park rangers began CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Definition Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac at the beach, but Zakaria later died at the hospital. The second daughter was able to regain footing, and a bystander by·stand·er n. A person who is present at an event without participating in it. bystander Noun a person present but not involved; onlooker; spectator Noun 1. helped her to shore, said Juventino Ortiz, a supervising ranger. - Associated Press Ex-Riordan adviser named to 9th Circuit Kim Wardlaw, a federal judge in Los Angeles for the past two years and a former adviser to Mayor Richard Riordan, has been confirmed to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Wardlaw, 44, Friday. President Clinton had nominated her in January. Wardlaw will begin her new post after completing pending cases. In addition to being a former Riordan adviser, Wardlaw presided over the mayor's civil wedding earlier this year to longtime companion Nancy Daly. Her husband, attorney Bill Wardlaw, is Riordan's closest adviser and is part of a private group hoping to woo Democrats to choose Los Angeles for their national convention in 2000. A UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Law School graduate, Wardlaw was a partner at O'Melveny & Myers. - Associated Press |
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