BRIEFLY : LAWYER SENTENCED FOR RUNNING BROTHEL.VAN NUYS - An attorney accused of running a brothel out of his Van Nuys law office was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison, despite pleas that he be given drug treatment instead, attorneys said. Bobby Abrams Bobby E. Abrams (born April 12,1967 in Detroit, MI) was an American football linebacker in the NFL. He played college football for the University of Michigan. , 51, told the court that he was addicted to cocaine and wanted to spend 10 to 12 months in a rehabilitation program run by the state's prison system, according to defense attorney Andrew Flier. Superior Court Judge Michael Hoff found there was not enough evidence of addiction and, siding with prosecutors, sentenced Abrams to 36 months in prison. Anticipating that he'd get treatment, Abrams pleaded no contest to pandering in a plea bargain plea bargain n. in criminal procedure, a negotiation between the defendant and his attorney on one side and the prosecutor on the other, in which the defendant agrees to plead "guilty" or "no contest" to some crimes, in return for reduction of the severity of the on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of the trial. Hoff's decision Thursday effectively puts Abrams behind bars for the same amount of time as if he had gone to trial and been convicted on all counts, Flier said. A defense request to withdraw the no contest plea was rejected. - Daily News Infected squirrels close campground A campground in the Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los is temporarily closed because squirrels collected during routine surveillance tested positive for sylvatic sylvatic /syl·vat·ic/ (sil-vat´ik) sylvan; pertaining to, located in, or living in the woods. sylvatic found in the woods; occurring in animals of the forest. plague. The Switzer Falls site, a U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service facility six miles above Altadena, will remain closed for at least 10 days, said Frank Hall, chief of the county's Vector Management Program. Sylvatic plague is a bacterial infection in animals that can be transmitted to humans by infected fleas. Such a transmission causes bubonic plague bubonic plague: see plague. bubonic plague ravages Oran, Algeria, where Dr. Rieux perseveres in his humanitarian endeavors. [Fr. Lit.: The Plague] See : Disease , which if untreated can progress to infection of the blood or pneumonic plague pneumonic plague n. A frequently fatal form of bubonic plague in which the lungs are infected and the disease is transmissible by coughing. , Hall said. All forms of the disease can be deadly if not treated, but most patients respond well to antibiotic therapy. County health officials have posted warning signs and begun flea control activities at the site. Anyone who has seen dead squirrels at campgrounds or needs information can call (323) 881-4046. - City News Service Public hearing set on reservoir's future The Department of Water and Power's General Manager, David Freeman, along with the Water and Power Commissioners, will hold a public hearing Aug. 25 to determine the future of the Chatsworth Nature Preserve/Reservoir. The hearing will be from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Chatsworth Hotel, 9777 Topanga Canyon Blvd. -Daily News Driver injured when truck rolls down hill MALIBU - A GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) phone company truck rolled about 20 feet down an embankment in Malibu on Thursday, trapping the 54-year-old driver in the wreckage for about half an hour, authorities said. The crash occurred about 1:20 p.m. at Las Flores Canyon, said Inspector Mark Tolbert of the county Fire Department. The driver lost control while going downhill. The truck went through a guardrail and down the embankment before landing on Gorge Road, Tolbert said. The man suffered moderate injuries, including a 6-inch cut on his head, Tolbert said. He was flown to UCLA Medical Center UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. It is rated as one of the top three hospitals in the United States and is the top hospital on the West Coast according to US News & World Report. . - City News Service Weekly fare strikes planned by group A public transit advocacy group will hold ``fare strikes'' each Thursday until the 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. complies with a court appointee's order to buy 481 buses and cuts fares to 50 cents, an organizer said. Rita Burgos of the Bus Riders Union said the group began the action last week and will continue indefinitely. Violators can be cited by police and required to pay up to a $250 fine. The Bus Riders Union was one of the plaintiffs in a suit against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which resulted in the special master's order to buy buses to reduce overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. . The MTA has asked a federal judge to overturn that order. The agency's board is set to consider later this month or next month a dime fare hike that would take effect Nov. 1. Rick Jager of the MTA said the strikes are ``counterproductive,'' and ``in general the MTA believes the bus service has improved markedly over recent months.'' - City News Service Police say suspect posed as manager A man facing trial for defrauding the LAPD's widows and orphans In typesetting, widow refers to the final line of a paragraph that falls at the top the following page of text, separated from the remainder of the paragraph on the previous page. The term can also be used to refer simply to an uncomfortably short (e.g. fund was charged Thursday with posing as Burt Reynolds' manager and stealing about $40,000 in checks. William Patrick Bentley, 39, was scheduled to go on trial today in Los Angeles for allegedly stealing about $30,000 while acting as coordinator for the 28th Annual Police-Celebrity Golf Tournament. Instead, he was arrested and booked for investigation of the new allegations and is scheduled to enter a plea today in downtown Municipal Court. He is being held in lieu of $200,000 bail. According to the complaint, Bentley forged Reynolds' signature. - City News Service |
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