BRIEFLY : KING PROBATION LOSS POSSIBLE OVER HIT-RUN.Rodney King's misdemeanor hit-and-run driving conviction earlier this month led to a charge Monday that he violated terms of probation set in a drunken driving case. King still has six months of jail time and $500 in fines ``hanging over his head'' from the 1994 conviction, said Mike Qualls, spokesman for the City Attorney's Office. King, 31, was arrested Aug. 21, 1993, after he backed his vehicle into a wall while leaving a nightclub in central 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. . He was placed on three years' probation after pleading no contest to drunken driving. Conditions of his probation included a court order for him to obey all laws. A probation violation hearing was set for Aug. 13, a week after his scheduled sentencing in Alhambra for the hit-and-run conviction. King was acquitted July 11 of spousal abuse, reckless driving reckless driving n. operation of an automobile in a dangerous manner under the circumstances, including speeding (or going too fast for the conditions, even though within the posted speed limit), driving after drinking (but not drunk), having too many passengers in and assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. , but he was convicted on the hit-and-run count stemming from a July 14, 1995, fight with his 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. wife, Crystal. SOURCE: - 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. Glendale police seek four in man's slaying GLENDALE - Glendale police said Monday that they are trying to find four gang members who they believe stabbed a 35-year-old homeless man to death early Friday as a part of their evening ``fun.'' ``This appears to be a cowardly attack on a homeless man by gang members having a fun time,'' said Sgt. John Perkins
John Perkins (b. 28 January 1945 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is an activist and author. , a homicide detective for the Glendale Police Department. Police are asking for the public's help in identifying the four suspects. A police officer found John Vice dead on a sidewalk in the 500 block of East Garfield Street about 2:30 a.m. Friday. Later, witnesses came forward saying they saw four young men dressed in gang attire attacking Vice. Glendale police are asking for anyone with information on the case to call Investigator Dennis Smith Dennis Smith may refer to:
see stopper pad. Anonymous Information line at (818) 507-7867. SOURCE: - Daily News Red Line ridership up after hefty rate hike Despite a more-than-quintupled fare, Metro Red Line ridership jumped by about 6,000 a day, to nearly 30,000, the first week after three new stations opened, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said Monday. MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. officials hope that ridership will exceed 40,000 per day eventually in the next several months on the Red Line, which runs from Union Station to the Wilshire Boulevard-Western Avenue intersection. Agency officials had been concerned about a drop-off because they also started charging $1.35 fares Wednesday, when they opened three stations and 2.2 miles of additional track. The past three years, the agency charged passengers 25 cents to use the 4-mile, five-station first leg. The MTA reconfigured bus routes so many Wilshire riders were dropped off at the Western Avenue subway station for the ride into downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . SOURCE: - Daily News Metro Rail overbilled for work, group says A complaint filed against a Metro Rail contractor was unsealed Monday, claiming that the companies overbilled the government by nearly $20 million and released two employees who found out about it. The false-claims lawsuit was brought by a group representing national, state, county and city interests against Los Angeles-based Parsons-Dillingham Construction. SOURCE: - City News Service |
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