BRIEFLY : COUNCILMAN THINKS GUARD HELP GOOD IDEA.Citing the delays in clearing brush from high fire risk areas this year, 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 Councilman Mike Feuer on Friday called for negotiating with the National Guard to help next year. ``Los Angeles should emulate New York's innovative program called GuardHelp, which uses its National Guard resources . . . to solve difficult civic problems,'' Feuer said. This year, the city found itself with a major backlog of properties that needed to be cleared. - Daily News Council approves sheeting for hillside Fearful of the effects rain might have on a West Hills hillside, Councilman Hal Bernson Hal Bernson served as Los Angeles City Councilman for the 12th district. He was chair of the Transportation Committee. Prior to being on the City Council, he served in the Navy. Preceded by Robert M. on Friday won Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. approval to provide plastic sheeting in an area where four homes slid in February. The council approved Bernson's call to put up the sheeting for the property owners on the hillside at Shoup Avenue and Malden Street. - Daily News Robbers take tickets from travel agency SANTA CLARITA - A gunman and two accomplices barged into a Santa Clarita travel agency Friday, tied up six employees, robbed them and stole airline tickets, a sheriff's lieutenant said. The holdup occurred at Aruba Travel, 24781 Valley St., about 10 a.m., said Lt. Larry Gump of the sheriff's Santa Clarita station. - City News Service Suspect accused of selling lewd CDs Misdemeanor charges were filed Friday against a Castaic man accused of selling CD-ROMs that depict bestiality Bestiality See also Perversion. Asterius Minotaur born to Pasiphaë and Cretan Bull. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 34] Leda raped by Zeus in form of swan. [Gk. Myth. and sodomy sodomy Noncoital carnal copulation. Sodomy is a crime in some jurisdictions. Some sodomy laws, particularly in Middle Eastern countries and those jurisdictions observing Shari'ah law, provide penalties as severe as life imprisonment for homosexual intercourse, even if the . According to the City Attorney's Office, the CDs were sold in September to undercover officers at a computer show at the Sherman Oaks Entertainment Center. Marshall Jay Lefcourt, 45, is charged with four counts of distributing obscene matter. Lefcourt is scheduled to enter a plea Jan. 20 in Van Nuys Municipal Court, Division 101. - City News Service Service will honor homeless who died NORTH HILLS - 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. Homeless Coalition will host its second annual memorial service Sunday to remember homeless people who have died this year in the Valley. The service, which will also commemorate National Homeless Memorial Day, will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Sepulveda United Methodist Church United Methodist Church, in the United States, religious body formed by the union in 1968 of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church (see Methodism). at 15435 Rayen St. in North Hills. The public is invited. For more information, contact Horn at (818) 890-4034. - Daily News Judge rules search out before release LOS ANGELES - Inmates ordered released from Los Angeles County jails can't be searched before they are let go, a federal judge has ruled. The Sheriff's Department policy of searching an inmate after a judge has ordered the inmate released violates the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure unreasonable search and seizure n. search of an individual or his/her premises (including an automobile) and/or seizure of evidence found in such a search by a law enforcement officer without a search warrant and without "probable cause" to believe evidence of a , U.S. District Judge Marianna Pfaelzer ruled Thursday. It was unclear when the ruling would take effect, said Donald W. Cook, the plaintiff's lawyer. Cook's client, Munique Williams, did not seek injunctive relief injunctive relief n. a court-ordered act or prohibition against an act or condition which has been requested, and sometimes granted, in a petition to the court for an injunction. . Williams' suit said she was ordered released by a judge but upon return to jail from the hearing, guards strip-searched her in front of other female inmates. She was left standing naked for about 30 minutes as deputies made fun of her. - Associated Press |
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