BRIEFLY : MOTORIST SENTENCED IN HIT AND RUN DEATH.A 36-year-old Glendale man was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide In most states in the United States, vehicular homicide is a crime. In general, it involves death that results from the negligent operation of a vehicle, or that results from driving whilst committing an unlawful act that does not amount to a felony. in the death of a Burbank mother of six earlier this year. Appearing before 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. Superior Court Judge Teri Schwartz in Pasadena, Rafael Claro-Miranda also pleaded guilty to felony hit and run in the May 14 incident in Burbank that left a good Samaritan injured. According to police, Claro-Miranda's car struck and killed Sharon Marie McPherson as she stood outside her car after running out of gas. Agustin Luz Trejo, a 28-year-old Burbank house painter, was injured before Claro-Miranda fled, police said. ?13Daily News Prosecutors pass on charging firm The company fired by the MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. after spectacular 1994 and 1995 subway construction disasters on Hollywood Boulevard won't face criminal prosecution from the U.S. Attorney's Office, officials said. Shea-Kiewit-Kenny was notified in a letter dated Monday that federal prosecutors will not pursue any criminal charges over its alleged use of substandard materials in Hollywood subway construction, said John Morrissey, an attorney representing the company. ``We sent a letter of declination declination, in astronomy, one of the coordinates in the equatorial coordinate system. The declination of a celestial body is its angular distance north or south of the celestial equator measured along its hour circle. - we declined to prosecute - but beyond that we have no comment,'' said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. The decision could create significant problems for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's multimillion-dollar damages suit against Shea-Kiewit-Kenny, which in turn has sued the agency for about $100 million, Morrissey said. The MTA suit would have been strengthened considerably had a criminal prosecution succeeded, Morrissey said. Without it, the agency may have a hard time justifying the reasons it used to fire Shea-Kiewit. ?13Daily News Staff and Wire Services L.A. minorities face higher rate of AIDS In the first half of 1997, the number of reported AIDS cases in the county fell by a third compared to last year, but the rate of cases in communities of ethnic minorities rose, an expert said Wednesday. Dr. Peter R. Kerndt, director of the HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. Epidemiology Program for the county Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
people of colour, colour, color race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important and HIV'' held at the school district headquarters downtown. ``In 1985, African-Americans and Latinos accounted for 28 percent of reported AIDS cases. By 1996, these two populations accounted for 54 percent of all reported AIDS cases,'' Kerndt said. ?13City News Service Tolerance museum object of Muslim ire Muslim organizations called Wednesday for the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance The Museum of Tolerance is a multimedia museum in Los Angeles, California, with an associated museum in New York City, designed to examine racism and prejudice in the United States and the world with a strong focus on the history of the Holocaust. to alter exhibits they claim promote intolerance of Islam and Muslims. The chief objection is to the museum's representations of genocide in Bosnia, Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and a book on the slave trade slave trade Capturing, selling, and buying of slaves. Slavery has existed throughout the world from ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal. Slaves were taken from the Slavs and Iranians from antiquity to the 19th century, from the sub-Saharan . The coalition, which met with center officials to discuss its concerns in November, went public with its demands after learning the center had yet to make any changes. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean at the center, said officials were willing to consider the criticisms, but were waiting to receive a memo from the Muslims about their complaints when they learned of the news release. |
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