BRIEFLY : PILOT LOCATES BODY OF SWIMMER OFFSHORE.MANHATTAN BEACH Manhattan Beach, city (1990 pop. 32,063), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1912. It is a residential and beach community with an oil refinery and nearby factories that produce transportation and electrical equipment, computers, and pottery. - The body of a man who drowned last week was found Saturday by a helicopter pilot who landed on the beach to alert lifeguards. Richard Kirby, 18, of Hermosa Beach Hermosa Beach (hûrmō`sə), city (1990 pop. 18,219), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1907. It is a residential suburb and a popular resort noted for its fine, sandy beaches and excellent surf. was swimming Jan. 31 with a friend but got caught in a rip current rip current or riptide Narrow, jetlike stream of water that flows sporadically seaward for several minutes, in a direction perpendicular to a beach. The term riptide is a misnomer because the currents are in no way related to tides. . A helicopter pilot saw Kirby's body about 1,000 yards from shore and landed on the beach near the Manhattan Beach Pier about 12:35 p.m., sending beachgoers running for cover from the blowing sand, said fire battalion chief Ken Shuck. ?13Associated 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. Kidnapped woman's body found near car A woman found dead Saturday near a burned car was kidnapped earlier in the day, a county sheriff's spokesman said. The body of Teresa Magana, 48, was found on a trail near the City of Industry, said sheriff's Deputy Mark Bailey
Mark Bailey (born 26 November, 1970) is a cricket player in Hamilton, New Zealand. He played one one-day international for the New Zealand cricket team. . She had apparently been beaten and shot in the torso. About 3:30 a.m., authorities began investigating a kidnapping at a home in suburban Lynwood. Witnesses said the two kidnappers were driving a burgundy Buick. The Buick was found a few hours later smoldering smol·der also smoul·der intr.v. smol·dered, smol·der·ing, smol·ders 1. To burn with little smoke and no flame. 2. on Pearson Avenue in Bassett, Bailey said. ?13Associated Press Man recaptured after escape from L.A. jail An inmate who escaped from the Men's Central Jail last week has been recaptured, a sheriff's spokeswoman said Saturday. Officers acting on a tip arrested Robert Joy, 45, about 11 p.m. Friday, said Debra Glafkides, a sheriff's spokeswoman. Joy was sentenced last month to four years in prison for a parole violation stemming from a previous burglary conviction. On Monday, while assigned to a work detail at the Men's Central Jail, he walked away from the facility. ``Inmate Joy walked away from the jail after he emptied trash into a trash cart located outside of the facility's door,'' sheriff's spokeswoman Kimberly Unland said. |
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