BRIEFLY : GROUP MAKES PITCH FOR SUPERSCOOPERS.The leaders of a 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. business group called on the state Monday to provide funding for additional SuperScooper firefighting aircraft for use in 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. The county leases two of the planes each year, and the legislators are considering a lease-purchase agreement Lease-purchase agreement An agreement that allows for portions of lease payments to be used to purchase the leased property. for two to four additional planes, said Laurie Golden, a spokeswoman for the Valley Industry and Commerce Association. - City News Service Hearing to address subway reparation Compensation for an injury; redress for a wrong inflicted. The losing countries in a war often must pay damages to the victors for the economic harm that the losing countries inflicted during wartime. These damages are commonly called military reparations. A Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. committee will hold a public hearing Wednesday on the issue of compensation for North Hollywood businesses in the Lankershim Boulevard area that are affected by subway construction. The council's Transportation Committee is scheduled to meet at 2 p.m. in Room 314 at City Hall East. - Daily News McDougal trial date tentatively Sept. 8 SANTA MONICA - A Santa Monica judge said Monday that he hopes to begin testimony Sept. 8 in the trial of Whitewater figure Susan McDougal, who is accused of stealing $150,000 from conductor Zubin Mehta and his wife. Judge Leslie Light told prospective jurors that McDougal's involvement with the Whitewater case and President Clinton has ``no part whatsoever in this trial.'' He instructed them to disregard anything they might have heard about her. But attorney Mark Geragos claims his client was targeted in the embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. case to pressure her into testifying against Clinton in the Whitewater investigation. - City News Service Missing man, 82, subject of search GLENDALE - An 82-year-old man who needs his daily medication walked away from a retirement facility Friday and still is missing, a Glendale police detective said Monday. Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Geiser left the Casa Glendale Retirement Home in the 400 block of Piedmont Avenue about 11:30 a.m., said Investigator Bob Masucci. Geiser is 5 feet 7 inches tall, with short brown hair and a dark complexion, Masucci said. He was wearing a brown shirt and pants, black shoes and a wrist band with his name on it, Masucci said. - City News Service Cosby case lawyer requests new trial The man convicted of murdering Bill Cosby's son, Ennis, did not get a fair trial and deserves a new one, a defense attorney claims in a court filing on behalf of Mikail Markhasev. The 23-page brief, filed Friday by Deputy Alternate Public Defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was Henry Hall, claims there was jury and prosecutor misconduct during the trial that ended July 7. - Associated Press Man shot in face dies from wound MISSION HILLS - An 18-year-old Sun Valley man who was shot in the face over the weekend has died, hospital and coroner's officials said Monday night. Robert Villarreal Jr. was hit once in the face after an acquaintance pulled out a rifle from a closet and the gun went off about 4:45 p.m. Saturday inside a home in the 16700 block of Knollwood Drive, police said. Villarreal was on life support for some time to preserve his organs for donation, said Marie Ogilvie, a nursing supervisor at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is a hospital in Mission Hills, California, USA. The hospital has 254 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. History in Mission Hills. - Daily News |
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