BRIEFLY : GAS SHUTOFF VALVE PLAN SENT TO COUNCIL.Despite objections from 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. real estate groups, a Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. panel voted a lukewarm recommendation Monday that the council adopt an ordinance requiring automatic gas shutoff valves to be installed on any building within six months of its sale. The council's Public Safety Committee sent the proposed ordinance to the council for consideration, citing the potential public safety benefit of having valves that will shut off gas service in a major earthquake to prevent fires. Millie Jones of the San Fernando Valley Association of Realtors said the group opposes the ordinance because it would make it harder for some people to sell or buy a home, and the installation of valves should remain voluntary. ?13Daily News Officer shoots man during suicide call SHERMAN OAKS - A man who brandished a knife inside a house in Sherman Oaks was shot in the thigh by a police officer responding to a report that the man was suicidal, authorities said Monday. Adam Pilkenton, 24, confronted police who were called to his home at 11 p.m. Sunday in the 5000 block of Fulton Avenue, said Lt. Tony Alba. The officers heard screaming inside the darkened dark·en v. dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens v.tr. 1. a. To make dark or darker. b. To give a darker hue to. 2. To fill with sadness; make gloomy. 3. residence and announced themselves and later forced open the door when there was no response, Alba said. Officer Rodney Genter, 52, a 25-year LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. veteran, entered the home and confronted Pilkenton in the hallway, Alba said. The man raised his right hand above his head and he appeared to be holding a knife, officials said. ``Genter feared that he was about to be stabbed. Officer Genter fired one round . . . striking the suspect in the thigh,'' Alba said. The wounded man Wounded Man in English, 傷追い人 (Kizuoibito) in Japanese, is a seinen manga written by Kazuo Koike and drawn in a Gekiga style by artist Ryoichi Ikegami. was treated at a local hospital and later booked on suspicion of assault on a peace officer, police said. ?13Daily News Brain damage claimed for ex-O.C. treasurer SANTA ANA Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. - Robert L. Citron citron (sĭt`rən), name for a tree (Citrus medica) of the family Rutaceae (orange family), and for its fruit, the earliest of the citrus fruits to be introduced to Europe from Asia. , whose investments lost Orange County $1.64 billion, was brain-damaged, dependent on aides and adopted a broker's strategy without doing a simple analysis that proved it a loser, witnesses testified Monday. Neuropsychologist Neuropsychologist A clinical psychologist who specializes in assessing psychological status caused by a brain disorder. Mentioned in: Post-Concussion Syndrome Elizabeth S. Parker, who tested the former county treasurer at Citron's lawyer's request, told of extensive damage in his frontal brain - the part ``that allows you to think, analyze information and be conscious.'' Clinical psychologist Colin C. Koransky, who also examined Citron, compared him to ``an empty bottle being put out into the water.'' ?13Associated Press |
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