BRIEFLY : MAN FOUND FATALLY WOUNDED ON STREET.PACOIMA - A shooting at dawn Sunday left an unidentified man dead on Pierce Street. Police responding to a report of gunshots found the Latino man, believed to be in his early 20s, crumpled crum·ple v. crum·pled, crum·pling, crum·ples v.tr. 1. To crush together or press into wrinkles; rumple. 2. To cause to collapse. v.intr. 1. in the gutter near the intersection with Glenoaks Boulevard. He was pronounced dead at the scene, said Detective Lindy lin·dy or Lin·dy n. pl. lin·dies A lively swing dance for couples. Also called lindy hop. [From Lindynickname of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Gligorijevic with the 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. Police Department's Foothill Division. The man, shot once in the torso with a handgun, carried no identification, Gligorijevic said. Nor did his fingerprints match any in Police Department records. Investigators also were unable to find witnesses to the shooting. The victim is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing about 170 pounds. His hat, sweat shirt, pants and athletic shoes were black. -Daily News Two men burned in Valley house fire WEST HILLS - Two men were burned during a house fire in West Hills on Sunday, and one is in critical condition, Los Angeles City Fire Department spokesman Bob Collis said. The department received the call about the fire in the 24300 block of Hartland Street at 6:33 p.m., he said, and arrived to find the entire house in flames In Flames is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden founded in 1990. Along with Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates, they pioneered what is now known as melodic death metal. . Thirty firefighters using six engines were able to extinguish the blaze by 6:51 p.m. A 56-year-old man suffered first-, second- and third-degree burns third-degree burns npl → brûlures fpl au troisième degré third-degree burns third npl → Verbrennungen pl dritten Grades to his legs, arms and back, and was listed in critical condition at West Hills Regional Medical Center when he arrived there around 7 p.m., Collis said. A 50-year-old man suffered minor first-degree burns to his hands and was treated at the same hospital. The cause of the blaze and the amount of loss aren't known yet, Collis said. Small quake strikes 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, A magnitude-4.8 earthquake jolted Southern California early Sunday, 20 miles east of San Bernardino, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage. The quake struck at 6:34 a.m. near the San Gorgonio Mountains, said seismologist seis·mol·o·gy n. The geophysical science of earthquakes and the mechanical properties of the earth. seis Lucy Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena. - Associated Press |
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