BRIEFLY : COUNCIL APPROVES WARNER RIDGE DEAL.Byline: - 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. West Hills resident to end postal term The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. gave final approval Tuesday to a plan by owners of Warner Ridge to build a 125-unit apartment complex while delaying $4 million in street improvements and a second, commercial phase of the development. The council also agreed to change the height limit for the apartment complex from three stories to 45 feet, a modification that opponents said will allow the developer to build a four- or five-story complex. Members of the Woodland Hills Homeowners Organization opposed the action, saying the developer should be required to go through with the alterations. The group also argued that the structure would be too tall. However, City Councilwoman Laura Chick noted that the original Warner Ridge development was approved to settle a lawsuit by the property owners, and the city has little choice but to allow reasonable development of the 21-acre site. - Daily News Civil rights lawyer may get suspended A California Bar Association panel recommended that civil rights attorney Stephen Yagman be suspended for a year for overcharging clients in a 1990 police shooting case at a McDonald's restaurant in Sunland. The State Bar Court of Review said Yagman asked the court to award him nearly $1 million in attorney fees without disclosing that he also was being paid by his clients through a contingency fee contingency fee Law & medicine An attorney fee based on a percentage of the money recovered in a lawsuit arrangement. Yagman's attorney, Arthur Margolis, said Yagman's fees were not unreasonable and said the review panel overstepped its bounds. - Associated Press Thespian posts bail in stalking-stabbing Actor Mykelti Williamson, who played Tom Hanks' shrimp-loving friend Bubba bub·ba n. Slang 1. Chiefly Southern U.S. Brother. 2. A white working-class man of the southern United States, stereotypically regarded as uneducated and gregarious with his peers. in ``Forrest Gump,'' was released on bail Tuesday after his arrest for allegedly stalking his ex-wife and stabbing her boyfriend. ``This has all been a really big misunderstanding and I will be vindicated,'' Williamson told reporters after he posted $180,000 bail. He declined to elaborate. The 40-year-old actor was arrested Monday night. - Associated Press U.S. judge rejects parts of Prop. 208 SACRAMENTO - A federal court judge Tuesday struck down key portions of Proposition 208, the campaign contribution limits approved by California voters last November. Tony Miller, a co-author of the ballot measure and a former chief elections official for the state, promised an appeal. ``We lost a big battle but I predict that we will win the war,'' Miller said in a statement. - Associated Press Pooch falls 75 feet from bridge; lives PASADENA - A dog suffered injuries but survived a 75-foot fall from a bridge in the Arroyo Seco Arroyo Seco (Spanish: "dry creek") may refer to:
Zack, a 4-year-old terrier mix, was on a walk Monday when he jumped over a 3-foot-high wall on a West Colorado Boulevard Colorado Boulevard (or Colorado Street) is a major east-west street in Southern California, United States. It runs from Griffith Park in Los Angeles east through Glendale, the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Arcadia, ending in Monrovia. access bridge into the arroyo. ``I went into a panic,'' said owner Jim Hatchett, 43, of Reseda. ``It was like something in slow motion watching him fall.'' Texas lawyer Sam Winters was elected chairman of the board of governors of the U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. on Tuesday, replacing Tirso del Junco Dr. Tirso del Junco-Mesa (b April 20, 1925 in Havana, Cuba) is a general surgeon, Diplomat of the American Board of Surgery, Fellow of American College of Surgeons. He is a graduate from the University of Havana medical school. , a surgeon from West Hills. Winters, of Austin, was elected head of the agency's governing body Noun 1. governing body - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he at the board's monthly meeting. Del Junco del Junco is a Spanish surname meaning “from the reeds”. The most notable family with this name is the Rodrigo del Junco family which originally came from Asturias, Spain. In the 16th century they immigrated to St. will remain on the nine-member elected board until his term expires in December 2000, according to George Marsh, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service based in Los Angeles. Daily News |
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