BRIEFLY : MISSING WOMAN'S BODY IDENTIFIED.VENTURA - A medical examiner A public official charged with investigating all sudden, suspicious, unexplained, or unnatural deaths within the area of his or her appointed jurisdiction. A medical examiner differs from a Coroner in that a medical examiner is a physician. determined Sunday that remains found in a ravine were those of a 35-year-old mother of two who disappeared last month under what investigators called ``unusual circumstances.'' Sherri Renee Dally's body was found by a volunteer search team at 5 p.m. Saturday off Canada Larga Road, north of the Ventura city limits. Investigators said they believe Dally was the victim of a kidnapping and homicide. The Ventura County coroner's office had not determined the cause of death Sunday. Dally was last seen on May 6 outside a Ventura Target store, getting into a car that had pulled up and stopped behind her parked van. SOURCE: - Daily News Driver arrested after fatal wreck UNIVERSAL CITY - A 47-year-old Tujunga man died early Sunday when his car was rear-ended on the Hollywood Freeway by a drunk driver, police said. Thomas Moran
Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 - August 25, 1926) was an artist of the Hudson River School. , 47, was killed after a pickup truck slammed into the back of his Nissan Sedan about 4:30 a.m., said California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. Officer Ken Lane. The crash occurred just north of Lankershim Boulevard. The driver of the pickup truck, 40-year-old Daniel P. Kennedy of Van Nuys, was arrested on suspicion of felony drunk driving, Lane said. Kennedy was booked into the Van Nuys jail and was being held in lieu of $50,000 bail, jail officials said. Kennedy was not injured in the crash, Humphrey said. SOURCE: - Daily News Game show host commits suicide GLENDALE - Ray Combs Raymond Neil Combs, Jr. (April 3, 1956 — June 2, 1996), was an American comedian and host of the game show Family Feud from 1988 to 1994. Early life and career Combs attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, but never graduated. , who hosted ``The New Family Feud'' for six years, committed suicide Sunday at Glendale Adventist Medical Center Glendale Adventist Medical Center is located in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, California. It was founded in 1905. Glendale Adventist Medical Center is a sister institution of Loma Linda University Medical Center and is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist hospital system. , where he was being treated for a head injury, officials said. Combs, 40, died just before 5 a.m. of respiratory failure Respiratory Failure Definition Respiratory failure is nearly any condition that affects breathing function or the lungs themselves and can result in failure of the lungs to function properly. , hospital spokeswoman Alicia Gonzalez said. He had been hospitalized since about 2 p.m. Saturday, she said, when paramedics brought him to the emergency room for treatment of blunt trauma blunt trauma Molecular Any injury sustained from blunt force, which may be related to MVAs, or mishaps, falls or jumps, blows or crush injuries from animals, blunt objects or unarmed assailants. Cf Penetrating trauma. to the head. Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Kuh said Combs' head injury had nothing to do with his death. Combs hosted the game show from 1988 to 1994. SOURCE: - Daily News `Mission' in action at U.S. box offices ``Mission: Impossible'' raked in an estimated $22.2 million to remain No. 1 at the box office for a second straight weekend and push its total earnings to $108 million, industry sources said Sunday. ``Twister'' followed with an estimated $16.7 million take during its fourth weekend. ``Dragonheart'' debuted in third place with $15 million, pushing the Leslie Nielsen farce ``Spy Hard'' to sixth place, after Whoopi Goldberg's new basketball comedy ``Eddie'' and the sci-fi thriller ``The Arrival.'' SOURCE: - 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. |
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