BRIEFLY : MAN GUNNED DOWN IN NORTH HILLS STREET.NORTH HILLS - A 21-year-old North Hills man was killed Saturday in a drive-by shooting drive-by shooting Public health A phenomenon in which one or more persons–commonly members of street gangs, open fire à la Al Capone from moving vehicles, often in retaliation for an alleged wrong-doing by a rival gang , police said. Frank Vela vela plural of velum. was walking in the 8900 block of Orion Avenue at 12:30 a.m. when he was shot several times in the upper body, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. officers at 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 Devonshire Division. Vela died at the scene. Police did not have a description of the gunman or the vehicle he was in. Homicide detectives at the Devonshire station were investigating the case and seeking witnesses. - Daily News Inmate escape bid exposed by noises Sheriff's deputies Saturday foiled a pre-dawn escape attempt by two inmates in the hospital ward at the Men's Central Jail, a deputy said. The inmates - one facing rape and assault charges and the other a narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. suspect - broke holes in the ceilings of their ``single-person hospital rooms,'' according to a Sheriff's Department statement. The escape attempt came to light about 1:15 a.m. when a deputy heard ``strange noises,'' and a search revealed one of the inmates had climbed into a crawl space crawl·space or crawl space n. A low or narrow space, such as one beneath the upper or lower story of a building, that gives workers access to plumbing or wiring equipment. Noun 1. above the ceiling. The other inmate was found still in his room, which had a hole in the ceiling, according to the statement. Both inmates were transferred to higher-security areas, and will be charged with attempted escape. - City News Service Relief supplies sent to hurricane area A cargo plane cargo plane n → avión m de carga cargo plane n → avion-cargo m cargo plane cargo n → loaded with more than 25 tons of medicine, dry food and materials to build shelters left Los Angeles on Saturday bound for Honduran victims of Hurricane Mitch Hurricane Mitch was one of the deadliest and most powerful hurricanes on record in the Atlantic basin, with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph (290 km/h). The storm was the thirteenth tropical storm, ninth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 1998 Atlantic . Richard Walden, president of Operation USA, which organized the shipment, said that most of the supplies collected by Los Angeles charitable organizations in the days following the storm that swept across Central America. Operation USA is a 19-year-old relief organization based in Los Angeles - Associated Press Holiday hit-and-run driver still at large MISSION HILLS - Police on Saturday continued their search for a Thanksgiving hit-and-run-driver who injured four family members crossing a street. On Saturday, one of the victims, 70-year-old Casta Ruiz, was upgraded to good condition from serious but stable, said a nursing supervisor at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is a hospital in Mission Hills, California, USA. The hospital has 254 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. History in Mission Hills. Ruiz's daughter Maria Abaloni, 46, suffered life-threatening injuries, including head trauma and two broken legs. Abaloni's son Steven Trejos, 26, and her aunt Luvia Aragon, 63, also remained hospitalized Saturday. Police are seeking the driver of a yellow, foreign-model sedan with front-end damage. The victims were hit in the 11800 block of Victory Boulevard in North Hollywood about 6 p.m. Thursday while walking to a relative's home for Thanksgiving dinner. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call the Los Angeles Police Department's Valley Traffic Division at (818) 756-8381. - Daily News Two L.A. areas lose electricity briefly Nearly 2,000 Los Angeles homes and businesses lost power Saturday after equipment problems in the Westchester and Park La Brea areas, a Department of Water and Power spokeswoman said. About 770 customers near McCool Avenue in Westchester lost power about 10 a.m. when a transformer fell to the ground, the DWP's Darlene Battle said. Service was restored by about 6:30 p.m. And at 12:15 p.m., an electrical glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack. in an underground vault in Park La Brea left 1,200 customers without electricity, Battle said. That problem was fixed by about 2:50 p.m. - City News Service |
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