BRIEFLY : CYCLIST'S CONDITION CRITICAL AFTER CRASH.GLENDALE - A 14-year-old bicylist was critically injured after being hit by a pickup truck Wednesday morning, police said. The Tujunga boy was riding south on Honolulu Avenue at the Foothill Freeway about 7 a.m., said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Officer Marvin Jones Marvin Jones may refer to:
A 39-year-old male driver in a 1998 Dodge Ram
The Ram is a full-size pickup truck from Chrysler LLC's Dodge brand. The name was first used in 1981 on the redesigned Ram and Power Ram, though it came from the hood ornament used on pickup heading north on Honolulu made a left turn to get onto the freeway ramp when the collision occurred, police said. The child, who police did not identify, was in critical condition at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, officials said. - Daily News Klugman wins case brought by ex-lover Actor Jack Klugman was the victor Wednesday in a palimony palimony n. a substitute for alimony in cases in which the couple were not married but lived together for a long period and then terminated their relationship. suit that claimed he promised lifetime support to his former lover. ``I feel like I just won the Kentucky Derby!'' Klugman, 77, told reporters after a jury decided he never had an express or implied contract implied contract n. an agreement which is found to exist based on the circumstances when to deny a contract would be unfair and/or result in unjust enrichment to one of the parties. An implied contract is distinguished from an "express contract. with Barbara Neugass. Only one Superior Court juror juror n. any person who actually serves on a jury. Lists of potential jurors are chosen from various sources such as registered voters, automobile registration or telephone directories. voted that there was an implied contract. The couple had a relationship spanning 20 years, but Klugman testified at trial that he never loved her. Neugass, 57, told reporters that Klugman lied about their emotional involvement. Neugass claimed that the former co-star of television's ``The Odd Couple'' promised lifetime support before their break-up in 1992. Klugman denied that in testimony. - Associated Press Heston will appear despite opposition Charlton Heston says he won't back down from giving a reading at a Jewish center in Los Angeles despite opposition from a group that advocates gun control. Heston's appearance today at the Skirball Center is inappropriate in light of a shooting in August at the North Valley Jewish community center in Granada Hills, said a group called Women Against Gun Violence. A white supremacist is charged with wounding several people at the center and later killing a postal worker. Ann Reiss Lane, chairwoman of the group, wrote a letter to the Skirball Center saying that Heston is president of the National Rifle Association National Rifle Association (NRA) Governing organization for the sport of shooting with rifles and pistols. It was founded in Britain in 1860. The U.S. organization, formed in 1871, has a membership of some four million. Both the British and the U.S. , which ``advocates absolutely no regulations whatsoever on private gun ownership, including assault weapons and other weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or .'' Heston said Monday the letter was ``entirely irrational.'' - Knight Ridder Newspapers Senators visit L.A. to decry de·cry tr.v. de·cried, de·cry·ing, de·cries 1. To condemn openly. 2. To depreciate (currency, for example) by official proclamation or by rumor. Hollywood Two U.S. senators were in Los Angeles on Wednesday to say the entertainment industry isn't getting the message about violence. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., are among 8,500 people who signed ``An Appeal to Hollywood'' in July and reprinted this week in various newspapers. So far, Brownback said, ``This is an industry that's stiffing us . . . that's just not responding. '' The appeal is signed by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, former New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Gov. Mario Cuomo, GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona, singer Naomi Judd, and entertainer-renaissance man Steve Allen. All of them want entertainment executives to ``band together to develop a new voluntary code of conduct'' that would ``establish certain minimum standards for violent, sexual and degrading material for each medium.'' Lieberman and Brownback favor a voluntary approach. A representative of the Motion Picture Association of America was not available for comment. - City News Service |
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