BRIEFLY : MAN KILLED RUNNING IN FREEWAY TRAFFIC.A section of the Hollywood Freeway in Echo Park was closed Wednesday night after a shirtless man who was running in and out of traffic was hit by a van and killed. California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officials said the man also appeared to have a bullet wound and was lying next to a pipe bomb. Motorists reported that the unidentified man - described as being in his 20s - was running in the slow lanes of the freeway at 10:13 p.m., CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan officials said. He was hit minutes later by a van near Glendale Boulevard, said Officer Shirley Gaines of the CHP. Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . bomb squad officers responded to the scene after the pipe bomb was discovered, officers said. All northbound and southbound lanes were closed to traffic from the Harbor Freeway to Glendale Boulevard, with traffic backed up for miles, Gaines said. - Daily News Officer given leave after airport gunfire A Burbank Airport police officer, who fired four shots at a fleeing vehicle carrying a man suspected of stealing luggage, has been placed on administrative leave while the incident is being investigated, officials said Wednesday. Officer Thomas Dangelo became involved in a scuffle with the suspect on Tuesday shortly before 2 p.m. after a representative at an Alamo Alamo Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. car rental agency notified him that the man could be involved in luggage theft. The Burbank Police Department The Burbank Police Department is the police department serving Burbank, California. Tim Stehr became the Police Chief of the department on August 1, 2007. The previous chiefs were Thomas Hoefel, David Newsham and Glen Bell. , which took over the investigation for the airport police, still is searching for the suspect, who is believed to have fled in a light-color compact. - Daily News 4 entities offer bids for air conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. Four companies submitted final bids Wednesday to air-condition 285 L.A. Unified schools by 2001. Contractors that submitted proposals were: the Energy Alliance, a consortium of the Department of Water and Power, Pacific Enterprises and Enova Corp.; New West/Rogers Corporate Alliance; PG&E Energy Services/CH2M Hill; and New Energy Ventures. - Daily News 3 bodies identified as N. Valley family The Coroner's Office on Wednesday confirmed the identities of the three bodies found in a Porter Ranch home as those of John En, 70, Nancy Cheng En, 42, and Franklin En, 15. Police said they believe John En shot to death his wife and son in their hilltop home and then turned the handgun on himself. - Daily News Fence to be built at fatal railroad site UPLAND, Calif. - A stretch of railroad where a commuter train killed two wandering children will be fenced off from nearby homes, Metrolink said Wednesday. The rail system announced it will fence the side of the tracks near the low-income residential area where the girls lived. The other side won't be fenced because it is industrial, said Mayor Robert Nolan, who is also on the Metrolink board of directors. A memorial of flowers and toys marked the spot where the girls died. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. BMW BMW in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. driver wanted for injuring boy, 9 SHERMAN OAKS - Police stepped up their search Wednesday for the hit-and-run motorist whose BMW hit and injured a 9-year-old boy in Sherman Oaks. The accident occurred about 8 a.m. Tuesday in the 14000 block of Magnolia Boulevard, across from Chandler Elementary School elementary school: see school. . The boy suffered a broken leg, 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. police Detective R.S. Uber of the Valley Traffic Division. Witnesses told police the boy was struck by a silver or light blue, 1990s model BMW ``sport'' model with two doors and custom wheels, driven by a white woman in her late 30s with long curly hair and a medium build. - City News Service Mulholland death called accidental Investigators have determined the death of a 33-year-old West Hollywood man found in his Mercedes-Benz at the bottom of a cliff in the Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. Geography They run for approximately 40 mi (64 km) east-west from the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles to Point Mugu in Ventura County. was the result of a road accident, authorities said. Police accidentally discovered the 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 of Daniel Klein on Saturday when officers were investigating the fatal shooting of a Burbank man earlier that morning, police said. - Daily News City looks at wider recycling program The City Council directed the Sanitation Bureau on Wednesday to study the feasibility of expanding Los Angeles' recycling program from serving single-family to also include apartments and condominiums. - Daily News Feuer wants closer mayor-council link (this Briefly Item only ran in the Final edition) One week after Mayor Richard Riordan suggested there be a greater separation of powers separation of powers: see Constitution of the United States. separation of powers Division of the legislative, executive, and judicial functions of government among separate and independent bodies. with the City Council, Councilman Mike Feuer on Wednesday said he believes there should be closer collaboration. In a series of proposals made to the appointed Charter Reform Commission, Feuer said he believes the mayor and an expanded City Council should work more closely together. - Daily News |
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