BRIEFLY : COUNCIL OKS DEAL WITH YMCA FOR RINK.The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. on Wednesday approved a 15-year contract with the YMCA YMCAin full Young Men's Christian Association Nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character among its members. to build and operate a roller-hockey rink at a North Hollywood park Hollywood Park may be several places:
The council also approved increasing to $2.52 million the amount for the Mid-Valley Multi-Purpose Center under the Proposition K program, as well as an environmental study to clear the way for construction of the Blythe Street Recreation Center. - Daily News Man, 24, arrested in graffiti incident A Woodland Hills man was caught spray-painting a wall of the now-closed Echo Park Branch Library on Wednesday, a prosecutor said. Joshua Don Flanigan, 24, was arrested about 2 a.m. on suspicion of vandalism and possession of graffiti tools, said Deputy City Attorney Jerry Baik. - City News Service Owner of markets can seek lower bail Accused in a murder-for-hire plot, Flemming Willi Larsen, owner of two Danish American Farms markets, can move to have his $3 million bail reduced Tuesday, a Superior Court judge decided Wednesday. Larsen's attorney, James E. Blatt, had planned to argue for a bail reduction to $250,000, but 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. County Deputy District Attorney Larry Diamond said he was not prepared for the hearing. Larsen, 56, was arrested May 13 on suspicion of soliciting the murder of a former business associate and the crippling of a former manager of his North Hills store. - Daily News Pair of temblors give residents jolt Two small earthquakes rattled Los Angeles early Wednesday evening, shaking downtown office buildings. There were no reports of damage or injuries. The first, at 6:11 p.m., had a preliminary magnitude of 3.1 and was centered three miles southwest of East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. , said Joe Frank, a seismologist seis·mol·o·gy n. The geophysical science of earthquakes and the mechanical properties of the earth. seis with California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. in Pasadena. A 3.0-magnitude quake struck 40 seconds later in the same region. - Associated Press |
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