BRIEFLY : HOMICIDE SUSPECT HELD IN THEFT CASE.VENTURA - A mother of five who is accused of killing her husband and cutting up his body was ordered Thursday to stand trial on an unrelated charge of stealing more than $47,000 in welfare benefits. Gladis Barreras Soto, 38, sat with her head bowed during much of her preliminary hearing, at which Superior Court Judge Vincent O'Neill ruled there was enough evidence to try her for welfare fraud. From August 1994 to 1997, Soto collected $47,605 in cash and food stamps food stamp n. A stamp or coupon, issued by the government to persons with low incomes, that can be redeemed for food at stores. Noun 1. for which she was ineligible because her husband, Pedro Alba, was employed and living at home, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Deputy District Attorney Kim Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
Soto remains in Ventura County Jail awaiting trial in the February shooting death of Alba, her husband of 15 years. Soto's attorney, Jorge Alvarado, concedes that Soto fatally fa·tal·ly adv. 1. So as to cause death; mortally: fatally injured. 2. So as to result in disaster or ruin. 3. According to the decree of fate; inevitably. Adv. 1. shot her sleeping husband and dismembered his body but said it was in response to years of physical and mental abuse. - Daily News Procter & Gamble may add building OXNARD - Procter & Gamble has proposed building a 10-story, high-tech storage facility that would sort and store paper products. The 100,000-square-foot structure would cost $15 million to $25 million to build, said company spokesman Stacy Roscoe. The building would be constructed on the factory grounds in Oxnard. Corporate officials will decide whether to approve the proposal after some engineering and other preliminary work has been completed, Roscoe said. The computerized facility would store products from the company's main plant, where toilet paper and paper towels are made. Procter & Gamble makes about 300 products for consumers in 140 countries. - 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. Osteoporosis osteoporosis (ŏs'tēō'pərō`sĭs), disorder in which the normal replenishment of old bone tissue is severely disrupted, resulting in weakened bones and increased risk of fracture; osteopenia tests planned at stores WESTLAKE VILLAGE - Bone density screenings for osteoporosis are scheduled for today and Saturday at local Sav-on Drugs stores. The $30 screenings and information about the disease will be provided by the California Osteoporosis Institute, organizers said. The screenings are scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at 2791 Agoura Road, Westlake Village, and Saturday at 5623 Kanan Road, Agoura Hills. - Daily News Council OKs plan for 570 new homes MOORPARK - The final agreement to build the 570-home Moorpark Highlands project on 445 acres north of Spring Road was unanimously approved Thursday by the City Council. The developers, led by Camarillo-based Morrison Homes, will create a seven-acre park, as well as bike and equestrian equestrian a rider of horses. paths, and set aside 22 acres for a school. Under the agreement, 25 of the homes in the project will be affordable for those with limited incomes, and the developers also will pay the city $2 million toward building housing elsewhere for those with low incomes. The developers will be required to build a four-lane extension of Spring Road that will sweep around and connect with Walnut Canyon Road, and they must build a four-lane road that eventually would connect Spring Road with roads that may be built by others to the east. The agreement is scheduled for a second reading by the council Oct. 6. - Daily News Strangling victim was local woman OXNARD - The woman found strangled stran·gle v. stran·gled, stran·gling, stran·gles v.tr. 1. a. To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle. b. over the weekend in the breezeway breeze·way n. A roofed, open-sided passageway connecting two structures, such as a house and a garage. behind the Ros-Eda Motel has been identified as 20-year-old Janet Williams of Oxnard, police said. Salvador Sumaran, 22, of Oxnard remains in custody for violating parole, police Sgt. Lee Wilcox said. Sumaran had been arrested as a suspect in the strangling. Wilcox said police don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. of any motive for the killing, which they believe was committed with a rope or a cord. - Daily News Horse show to star Arabians, relatives MOORPARK - The Handicapped Equestrian Learning Program will sponsor a show of Arabian and half-Arabian horses at 8 a.m. Oct. 31 at Peter's Ranch, 7155 Walnut Canyon Road. The show will feature 24 classes and will be sanctioned by the American Horse American Horse (1840-December 16, 1908) was a chieftain of the Oglala Sioux during the Sioux Wars of the 1870s. He was also the nephew of the elder American Horse and son-in-law of Red Cloud. Show Association. To participate, call (805) 529-1888. - Daily News |
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