BRIEFLY : LEAGUE TO MONITOR CAMPAIGN MAILINGS.Prompted by the bitter and divisive campaign for a San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. state senate seat last year, the League of Women Voters League of Women Voters, voluntary public service organization of U.S. citizens. Organized in 1920 in Chicago as an outgrowth of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, it had as its original nucleus the leaders of the latter organization. on Monday announced formation of a campaign watch committee. Xandra Kayden, president of the league's 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. chapter, said the committee is designed to monitor the mailings and other advertising of campaigns to assure they are truthful and do not create other problems. The idea behind the committee came as a result of the bitter campaign last year between state Sen. Richard Alarcon, D-Van Nuys, and former Assemblyman Richard Katz in Senate District 20. The mailings in that campaign became the source of controversy with accusations of falsehoods and racism. - Daily News Helicopter rescues hikers from hillside GLENDALE - In a daring helicopter rescue Monday afternoon in Brand Park, sheriff's air rescue members saved two hikers stranded on the side of a cliff - one of whom was clinging by a bush 250 feet up the 500-foot hill, authorities said. ``It appeared if the shrubbery had pulled loose, he would have slid down the steep embankment,'' said sheriff's Deputy Dave Martin There have been several people named Dave Martin:
``We flew up next to him with the mountain paramedic par·a·med·ic n. A person who is trained to give emergency medical treatment or assist medical professionals. paramedic hanging on the end of the hoist. He reached out and wrapped a horse collar See: rescue strop. around the victim and then we hoisted them up,'' Martin said. The two hikers - 22-year-old Derek White Derek White is an American writer of daring, surreal and absurdist poetry and fiction, a visual artist, author of the review website 5cense, editor of Calamari Press, and publisher of the avant-garde literary & poetry journal Sleeping Fish. of North Hollywood and 24-year-old Juan Salazar of Granada Hills - were brought to safety unharmed, said Glendale police Sgt. Sue Hodgman. - Daily News Rodney King pleads not guilty via lawyer FONTANA - Rodney King, whose beating by Los Angeles police officers in 1991 was captured on videotape and broadcast worldwide, will go on trial July 6 on charges he hit his daughter and her mother. A not guilty plea was entered on King's behalf Monday by defense attorney Edi Faal. King, 34, was not present for the hearing in Fontana Municipal Court, where the trial will be held. - Associated Press County hearing set on school's project The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
The hearing is to consider an appeal of the Regional Planning Commission's approval of permits for Mesivta School at 25115 Mureau Road. - Daily News Corpse discovered on ranch property CHATSWORTH - A decomposed de·com·pose v. de·com·posed, de·com·pos·ing, de·com·pos·es v.tr. 1. To separate into components or basic elements. 2. To cause to rot. v.intr. 1. body was found on a rancher's property in the hills north of Chatsworth on Monday afternoon, officials said. The dead man, who appeared to be 40 to 50 years old, had been lying face-down for about two weeks in a brush area about 125 yards down a mountain hill, said Sgt. Phil Morris of the Los Angeles County sheriff's station in Lost Hills. - Daily News |
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