BRIEFLY : LAUSD NAMES HEAD OF SPECIAL AUDIT UNIT.FBI Special Agent Samuel N. Stanton has been named to become deputy director of internal audit and special investigations in the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. , said Don Mullinax, LAUSD's chief auditor on Friday. ``Mr. Stanton's 29 years of investigative and law enforcement experience will help the unit establish better accountability and integrity within the school district,'' Mullinax said in a statement. Stanton is set to assume the position Jan. 3. He has supervised a drug squad, a drug intelligence group, bank robbery The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Bank robbery is the crime of robbing a bank. and fugitive task forces and economic and violent crimes squads. He has also served as a member of the FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Team and and, as a certified police instructor, has taught firearms and defensive tactics to FBI agents and police. Stanton was chosen among 61 applicants. As deputy director of internal audit and special investigations, Stanton will help Mullinax manage a staff of auditors and investigators in detecting and preventing waste, fraud, and abuse in the district's programs and operations. - Daily News Teen given 5 years in shooting death A Sun Valley teen who killed a friend while playing with a rifle was sentenced Friday to five years in state prison for involuntary manslaughter The act of unlawfully killing another human being unintentionally. Most unintentional killings are not murder but involuntary manslaughter. The absence of the element of intent is the key distinguishing factor between voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. , prosecutors said. Justin Cox, 19, had pleaded guilty prior to trial in exchange for a recommended sentence of no more than five years, said 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 Deputy District Attorney Marlo Dickman. San Fernando Superior Court Judge Shari Silver imposed the maximum sentence for the Aug. 8, 1998, slaying of 18-year-old Robert Villareal in Granada Hills. Cox, then 17, was showing off to friends how he could load and reload (1) To load a program from disk into memory once again in order to run it. Reload is entirely different than reinstall. Reinstall means that you have to run the install program from a CD-ROM or floppy disk and perform the installation procedure over again. a .22-caliber rifle when he pointed it at Villareal and pulled the trigger, thinking the gun was unloaded, Dickman said. - Daily News LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. SWAT team wins competition A Los Angeles police Special Weapons and Tactics team won first place in the Tactical Olympics competition in Orlando, Fla., according to a police statement Friday. Ten of the department's 67 SWAT officers took part in the 17th annual SWAT Roundup. About 75 military and law enforcement teams from the U.S., Canada, Bosnia, Germany, Hungary and Kuwait competed in the event. A Dallas team was runner-up. - City News Service Ventura business windows defaced de·face tr.v. de·faced, de·fac·ing, de·fac·es 1. To mar or spoil the appearance or surface of; disfigure. 2. To impair the usefulness, value, or influence of. 3. VENTURA - Vandals scratched the glass windows of about 40 businesses along Main Street, causing thousands of dollars in damage, police said Friday. The vandals used a sharp tool to etch front windows of businesses from the 200 block to the 600 block of Main Street sometime Wednesday, reaching as high as 15 feet from the ground to leave their marks. Police said they defaced about 80 windows. - Daily News Possible salmonella threat in fruit juice Consumers in seven Western states should avoid drinking a brand of unpasteurized Adj. 1. unpasteurized - not having undergone pasteurization unpasteurised orange juice that may be contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. with salmonella bacteria, the California Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
A sample of juice produced by Sun Orchard Co. in Tempe, Ariz., is being investigated by California health officials and the federal Food and Drug Administration. There have been no reports of any illnesses in California associated with the juice, DHS DHS Department of Homeland Security (USA) DHS Department of Human Services DHS Department of Health Services DHS Demographic and Health Surveys DHS Dirhams (Morocco national currency) said. The company has voluntarily recalled products shipped to retailers in California and other states. - Associated Press 12-year-old dies from shotgun blast ARCADIA - A shotgun that some middle schoolers were playing with in an Arcadia home went off Friday, killing a 12-year-old boy, sheriff's deputies said. The gun reportedly belonged to the mother of a girl several boys were visiting, Sheriff's Lt. Don Bear said. The victim, who got shot in the upper body, died a short time later at the Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia, sheriff's Deputy Mark Bailey said. - City News Service |
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