BRIEFLY : LAPD OFFICER SHOOTS, KILLS ARMED SUSPECT.A Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . officer shot and killed a woman
with a gun Monday after a confrontation at a meat market parking lot at
Vernon Avenue and Wall Street, authorities said.
The woman was hit in the chest and paramedics took her to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her name was not immediately released. Sgt. Willie Guerrero of the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. told reporters at the scene that Newton Division officers went there after an 8:25 a.m. report of a woman with a gun. Guerrero said an officer ordered the woman, who was sitting in a car, to drop her gun. Instead, the woman kept the gun trained on the officer, he said, so a ``covering officer'' fearing for her colleague's life fired one shot that struck the suspect. - City News Service Fire stations to offer free smoke detectors A limited number of free smoke detectors are being made available to Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, residents through area fire stations in a public safety campaign aimed at helping low-income and elderly residents. Until Saturday, residents can add their name to waiting lists at city and county fire stations across 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. , Ventura and three neighboring counties, said 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. spokesman Brian Humphrey. In all, 50,000 smoke detectors will be given away by Radio Shack See RadioShack. and its parent company, Tandy Corp. Because the number of smoke detectors is limited, the company might not be able to meet the total demand, Humphrey said. - Daily News City to give reward in '96 drive-by death VAN NUYS - The city of Los Angeles
Hernandez was gunned down at Woodman Avenue and Plummer Street in Panorama City on Sept. 22, 1996, said Detective David Escoto of the Van Nuys Division. Police hope the reward will help them get new leads in the slaying, he said. The reward is sponsored by City Councilman Richard Alarcon. - Daily News House endorses bill on movie residuals The House of Representatives approved legislation Monday that would guarantee residual payments for movie directors, actors and writers each time a film is sold. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law which implements two 1996 WIPO treaties. It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly now goes to the president for his signature. The bill ``ensures that residuals will continue to be paid to our members as our product moves through the marketplace,'' said Jack Shea, president of the Directors Guild of America. ``We estimate that without this legislation, DGA DGA Directors Guild of America (movie directors union) DGA Délégation Générale pour l'Armement (France) DGA Directeur-Grootaandeelhouder (Dutch: Managing Director and Major Shareholder) members have been losing tens of millions of dollars a year in residual payments,'' Shea said. - City News Service Fire burns 5 acres near observatory A brush fire scorched scorch v. scorched, scorch·ing, scorch·es v.tr. 1. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. about five acres Monday in the Hollywood Hills near the Griffith Park Observatory. The blaze, reported about 4:20 p.m., took 90 firefighters and three water-dropping helicopters more than an hour to extinguish, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey. The fire burned part way up a hill toward the observatory, and the concession stand in the parking lot was evacuated temporarily, he said. The 63-year-old observatory was never in danger, Humphrey said. The cause of the fire is under investigation, he said. - City News Service Rancho Cucamonga inmate found dead RANCHO CUCAMONGA - An inmate being held on suspicion of robbery was found dead in the jail medical isolation area, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said. The inmate, a 32-year-old from Pasadena, was found Sunday evening by a deputy. The cause of death has not been determined, said a sheriff's spokeswoman.The inmate's name was not released. - Associated Press |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion