BRIEFLY : GUIDE DOG STOLEN FROM BLIND WOMAN.VAN NUYS - A blind woman trying to get into an elevator had her guide dog stolen, but the dog was recovered soon afterward, police said Sunday. Betty Loving and her dog, Ruthie, entered the elevator about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, said Officer Don Cox. A man also entered, grabbed the black Labrador retriever's leash and said, ``Come on, dog.'' The 58-year-old Loving began to yell. The man hit the woman on the head and took off with Ruthie, Cox said. The woman called police. The man had fled by the time police arrived, but officers found the dog, worth $4,500, sitting in another elevator on the second floor. No other items were taken. ``She and the dog are back together, and that's the main thing,'' Cox said. ``I just never realized that anybody would take somebody else's eyes,'' Loving said. ``And that's exactly what he did.'' Anyone with information about the robbery was urged to call robbery detectives at (818) 756-8495. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Lancaster woman stabbed, in hospital LANCASTER - A woman stabbed during a domestic violence dispute on the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. on Sunday evening was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition, officials said. The woman, Dolores Dolores (or Delores) was a common given name (until the 1960s in the USA); it is cognate with the English word "dolorous" (meaning sorrowful) and equivalent in meaning. Lomeli, 37, suffered a very serious cut to the abdomen area, said Lt. Steven Fredericks of the 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 Sheriff Department's Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley station. The suspect, Ricardo Roacho, 39, of Paramount was in jail Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. on $1 million bail facing an attempted murder charge, Fredericks said. The couple, both of Paramount, were arguing because Lomeli had started seeing her estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. husband. She claims Roacho stabbed her, but he claims that Lomeli stabbed herself, Fredericks said. After the woman was injured, Roacho exited the freeway and drive to a Powerhouse Gym in the 42200 block of 10th Street West, where fire and sheriff's officials were called. The woman was in surgery late Sunday 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, according to the hospital's nursing supervisor. - Daily News Boy on tricycle hit by car in crosswalk ARLETA - A 3-year-old boy riding his tricycle in a crosswalk with his mother was hit by a car Sunday evening in Arleta, officials said. The child was airlifted to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles after the 6:31 p.m. incident in the 8900 block of North Sepulveda, said Jim Wells, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. . The child was in good condition Sunday evening and was expected to be treated and released later in the night, said hospital spokesman Steve Rutledge. Traffic investigators said a car traveling 20 mph to 30 mph clipped the tricycle and sent the child spinning in the air. - Daily News Colonel takes over at National Guard BURBANK - Col. Mark A. Graham took command Sunday of the 40th Division Artillery for the California Army National Guard The California Army National Guard is a component of the California National Guard, the United States Army and the United States National Guard. The California Army National Guard is composed of about 20,000 soldiers. , officials said. Graham, who is taking command of 1,500 soldiers, is the second regular army officer to take command of a National Guard unit and the first to take command of a brigade-level unit in the history of the Army National Guard, officials said. - Daily News Professor's book chronicles activists A new book by California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , professor Mary S. Pardo takes a look at women from two different Los Angeles neighborhoods and how they changed their communities. The book - Mexican American Women Activists - grew out of Pardo's Ph.D. dissertation. It focuses on women in the working-class, inner-city neighborhood of Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. and the racially mixed middle-class suburb of Monterey Park. A professor of Chicano/Chicana studies at Northridge for 20 years, Pardo spent a decade following her subjects, monitoring their progress in changing their communities. - Daily News Mass murder trial starts in Santa Ana SANTA ANA - Thirteen years, two months and eight days after his arrest, the trial of accused mass murderer Charles Chitat Ng will officially begin today with the arrival of the first wave of prospective jurors at the Orange County court house. But some folks are still pessimistic that they'll hear opening statements any time soon in one of the state's longest running murder cases. ``I haven't made my plane reservations yet,'' Calaveras County Administrative Officer Brent Harrington said. The case, which was transferred from Calaveras County to Orange County in 1994 because of pretrial publicity The right of a criminal defendant to receive a fair trial is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The right of the press (print and electronic media) to publish information about the defendant and the alleged criminal acts is guaranteed by the First Amendment. , has been delayed by legal wrangles and appeals ever since Ng was first identified in 1985 as a suspect in the kidnapping, torture and murder of 12 people at a remote cabin near Wilseyville. Harrington said the case has already cost taxpayers more than $9.6 million. If the trial goes ahead as scheduled, he said, it's expected to cost an extra $3.8 million over the next year. - Scripps-McClatchy Western Service |
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