BRIEFLY : MAYOR'S CAR TOWED DURING L.A. MEETING.Mayor Richard Riordan's car was towed Monday night after his driver left it in a no-parking area in front of the Sun America building in West Los Angeles
Mayoral spokeswoman Noelia Rodriguez said the incident shows that no one is above the law. ``Nobody is exempt from parking enforcement officers,'' Rodriguez said. Riordan was meeting with Sun America head Eli Broad when his personal car that he uses for city business was left in the no-parking area. Sun America officials helped the mayor retrieve his car from the tow yard. - Daily News Survey techniques are workshop topic SIMI VALLEY - A workshop on radiation survey techniques and equipment demonstrations is scheduled from 7 to 10 p.m. today by the Santa Susana Field Laboratory Workgroup. Workshop participants include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and , the state Department of Health Services-Radiologic Health Branch, the Department of Energy and Rocketdyne. The workshop will be at the Simi Valley Senior Center, 3900 Avenida Simi SIMI Sea Ice Mechanics Initiative SIMI Search for Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet SIMI Students Islamic Movement in India SIMI Society of Irish Motor Industry SIMI Smallholder Irrigation Markets Initiative and is open to the public. - Daily News Settlement urged for disabled man A Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. panel recommended Tuesday that the city pay more than $1 million to a developmentally disabled man who was left paralyzed par·a·lyze tr.v. par·a·lyzed, par·a·lyz·ing, par·a·lyz·es 1. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. 2. To make unable to move or act: paralyzed by fear. after he was shot by 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 . officers at a Northridge group home in 1994. The council's Budget and Finance Committee recommended the settlement of the federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Larry Freidman. The full council will take up the issue next week. Freidman, who has the mental age of a 9-year-old, was shot after brandishing a steak knife at a home for the developmentally disabled. The suit claims that managers of the group home told police they could handle the problem, but officers used their guns anyway. Freidman was left a paraplegic paraplegic /para·ple·gic/ (-ple´jik) 1. pertaining to or of the nature of paraplegia. 2. an individual with paraplegia. by the shooting. - Daily News Zarian declines run for Assembly seat Citing a desire to continue working in local politics, Glendale Mayor Larry Zarian announced Tuesday that he will not make a run for State Assemblyman Scott Wildman's seat representing the 43rd District. Republican Zarian, 60, said during a news conference at Glendale City Hall, that concern for the health of his 87-year-old mother was another reason for deciding against a bid to unseat Wildman, D-Glendale. - Daily News Students to help prepare tax forms NORTHRIDGE - Cal State Northridge student volunteers are available to help people who make less than $40,000 a year prepare their federal and state income tax forms, a university spokeswoman said Tuesday. CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge was the first university to institute the federal Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, said CSUN spokeswoman Cristina Arana. Through student volunteers, the program has helped in the preparation of more than 15,000 state and federal tax returns since 1971. The program is available through March at 18 locations in the 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. .For information, contact VITA at (818) 677-4519. - City News Service County probes hospital cost cutting 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:
Supervisor Michael Antonovich said he was infuriated to learn that from 1985 to 1995 poor pregnant women were forced to deliver their children vaginally, even when a Caesarean section would have been safer. The county hospitals had a policy of attempting to reduce the number of costly Caesareans, but it was discontinued in 1995. In the 1980s hospitals across the country attempted to reduce the number of C-sections performed. Antonovich said he wants the Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
``We need to ensure that patients are not blindly being used to test bizarre medical theories,'' Antonovich said. In recent years the county has paid $24 million to settle claims filed by 49 mothers and children. Two mothers and three infants died, and others now suffer from maladies ranging from cerebral palsy to mental retardation and partial paralysis. |
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