BRIEFLY : HOTLINE CALLS OPPOSE ARENA BY 20-1 MARGIN.Calls to a new hotline to take public comments on a proposed sports arena downtown are running 20-1 against the project, aides to 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. Councilman Joel Wachs Joel Wachs served for several terms as Los Angeles City Councilman for the 2nd district. He was first elected by defeating incumbent James B. Potter. While in office, Wachs chaired the Public Works Committee and vice-chair of the Environmental Quality & Waste Management said Tuesday. ``This shows that people are against giving their tax dollars to the Lakers and Kings,'' said Wachs, who said more than 300 calls were registered on the first day of the hotline he established. The City Council has approved in concept plans by Los Angeles Kings The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California, USA. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). hockey team owners Edward Roski Jr. and Philip Anschutz to build a new sports and entertainment complex on a portion of the Convention Center. SOURCE: - Daily News 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 wounds wife, kills self LAKE LOS ANGELES - A Lake Los Angeles woman was wounded Tuesday afternoon in her home by her estranged husband, who then shot himself to death, officials said. The man, who neighbors said had moved out about a year ago and against whom the woman obtained a restraining order restraining order: see injunction. in January, was waiting with a shotgun when his wife returned home from grocery shopping about 2:20 p.m. with the couple's 14-year-old son, neighbors and deputies said. Deputies did not immediately name the couple, but neighbors identified them as Sam and Pat Hawes. Wounded in one or both knees, the woman was flown by helicopter to Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, deputies said. SOURCE: - Daily News Mysterious chemical makes customers ill CHATSWORTH - The release of a chemical irritant - possibly pepper spray - forced the hourlong evacuation of a Ralphs market Tuesday and sent six people to hospitals for treatment. The 10 a.m. incident at the market at 20440 Devonshire St. involved three areas of the store. In all, 18 people, including two children complained of minor throat discomfort. Officials were unsure whether the suspected use of the pepper spray was intentional or accidental. ``We never did find out exactly what it was,'' said Capt. Lynn Crockatt of 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. . ``But we think it was pepper spray - I can't tell you for sure that was what it was.'' Ralphs officials declined to comment about the incident. SOURCE: - Daily News Board requests probe into CIA-cocaine story Los Angeles County supervisors called Tuesday for an independent investigation of allegations that the CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). helped Contra leaders flood poor neighborhoods in Los Angeles and elsewhere with crack cocaine to raise money during the 1980s to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. A recently published series in the San Jose Mercury News The San Jose Mercury News is the major daily newspaper in San Jose, California and Silicon Valley. The paper is owned by MediaNews Group. Its headquarters and printing plant are located in North San Jose next to the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880). said Contra leaders with long-term CIA connections were the wholesale suppliers for ``Freeway'' Ricky Ross, who dominated crack cocaine sales in inner city Los Angeles in the mid-1980s. Revenues from the cocaine sales to Ross, recently convicted for drug dealing in San Diego, were used to purchase arms for Contra forces in Central America, according to the series. Supervisors Yvonne Brathwaite Burke and Zev Yaroslavsky said an investigation was needed in particular because of the devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. impact crack has had on Los Angeles' poorest neighborhoods. SOURCE: - Daily News |
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