BRIEFLY : FELON DENIES GUILT IN SIMI MAN'S KILLING.VENTURA - A parolee pa·rol·ee n. One who is released on parole. Noun 1. parolee - someone released on probation or on parole probationer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he gunned down a Simi Valley man after a bar fight last September. Thomas Shanti Shanti (from Sanskrit शािन्त śāntiḥ) can mean:
felon n. a person who has been convicted of a felony, which is a crime punishable by death or a term in state or federal prison. in possession of a gun. He remains in jail in lieu of $250,000 bail. Blanks could be sentenced to 40 years to life in prison if convicted. He previously has been convicted of battery, theft and auto theft. Authorities said Blanks shot and killed John Regos, 25, of Simi Valley outside the MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. Sports Bar in Simi Valley. - Daily News Simi park district to hire design firm OAK PARK - The Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District is scheduled tonight to hire the Luckman Partnership of West Hollywood to design a $1.6 million community center for Oak Canyon Community Park. The center will be 5,000 to 10,000 square feet, and will include basketball/volleyball courts, meeting rooms and craft and fitness areas, officials said. The architect will develop several proposals and present them at a public meeting scheduled for Jan. 21. Tonight's meeting is set for 6:30 at Sycamore Drive Communty Center, 1692 Sycamore Drive, Simi Valley. - Daily News Guard unit ferries toys for students OAK PARK - The Port Hueneme unit of the National Guard descended Wednesday on Oak Hills Elementary School, where they picked up thousands of donated toys, garments and food items to take to a Navajo reservation in Arizona. During the past two weeks schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school collected more than 1,500 food items, 2,300 clothing items and 1,200 toys, said Heather Sloan, a third-grade teacher. This year's holiday drive was the largest in its 10-year-plus history, Sloan said. The donated items filled the school's multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective room. ``It's pretty much covering the floor of over half the room,'' she said. - Daily News Brownies donate books to hospital THOUSAND OAKS - The pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. ward at Los Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
On Wednesday, 10 Brownies, all second-graders from Yerba Buena yerba buena (yĕr`bə bwā`nə), trailing evergreen perennial (Micromeria chamissonis) of the family Labiatae (mint family). It is native to W North America and especially common to woodland areas along the Pacific coast. Elementary School's Troop 1181, donated a cache of about 100 books to the hospital. While the hospital already has a few books available for the 20 or so sick children who pass through the hospital each month, the Brownies' donation will be a big help, said Kris Carraway-Bowman, the hospital's spokeswoman. ``We have a library that's not very strong,'' Carraway-Bowman said. The Brownies went through their own bookshelves and donated either books they had outgrown or ones that they thought other children might like, said Nancy Minicozzi, the troop's assistant leader. ``These are books from the girls' own collection,'' Minicozzi said. The donation was used as a community service project for the girls, she said. - Daily News Firefighters douse douse 1 also dowse v. doused also dowsed, dous·ing also dows·ing, dous·es also dows·es v.tr. 1. To plunge into liquid; immerse. See Synonyms at dip. 2. Oxnard plant blaze OXNARD - Firefighters worked overnight Tuesday and all day Wednesday to extinguish a blaze at the former Nabisco plant on Third Street. Oxnard officials said the fire broke out about 11 p.m. Tuesday, and that engine companies from several other jurisdictions helped battle the blaze throughout Wednesday. Officials said the fire was difficult to fight because one of the tenants was storing a large number of videotapes in the building. No cause or damage estimate was available. - Daily News |
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