BRIEFLY : PLANETS SNUGGLE NEAR IN VIEW FROM EARTH.Venus gave Jupiter a kiss Tuesday. Skywatchers called the celestial dance the best planetary conjunction of the year. Tiny Venus had chased giant Jupiter since last year and at 11 a.m. PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there they were at their closest, within one degree of each other in the view from Earth. In reality, Venus is 133 million miles from Earth and Jupiter is 540 million miles away. Venus will now move rapidly away from Jupiter. Their next date is on the evening of June 30, 2015. - 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. Westwood intruder linked to 2 attacks A man who tried to rape a woman in her apartment near UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX on Tuesday might be the same intruder who carried out a similar attack in that area five days earlier, police said. Tuesday's crime occurred about 2 a.m. in the 500 block of Midvale Avenue, said Detective Paul Bishop You may also be looking for Paul Bishop (actor) Paul Bishop is an author. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California. He worked on the Los Angeles Police Department before becoming a writer. of the Los Angeles Police Department's West Los Angeles
``In both incidents, the suspect entered residential apartment dwellings through unlocked doors while victims were sleeping,'' Bishop said. ``The suspect woke the victims up by sitting on the bed next to them and holding them down. When the victims fought back, the suspect fled the location.'' The suspect in both crimes was described as a short-haired Asian or white man, about 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall. - City News Service Dead inmate's family to receive $650,000 The daughter and father of a Los Angeles man who died in a struggle with sheriff's deputies at the Twin Towers Jail downtown in August will receive $650,000 from the county, the Board of Supervisors decided unanimously Tuesday. Danny Ray Smith, 34, died Aug. 1 after the two deputies tried to force him into a cell with a Latino inmate, and Smith, who was African-American, resisted. An autopsy determined Smith died from cardiac arrest cardiac arrest n. Abbr. CA A sudden cessation of cardiac function, resulting in loss of effective circulation. Cardiac arrest A condition in which the heart stops functioning. exacerbated by the restraint episode. - Daily News City offers $25,000 to help catch rapist The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. on Tuesday offered a $25,000 reward
for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man who raped
a 12-year-old girl at Valley Plaza Park in North Hollywood last week.
Councilman Joel Wachs said the entire community is traumatized by the incident. The suspect is described as an African-American male in his 20s. He is about 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs about 180 pounds and is bald. - Daily News Developer to address community council WARNER CENTER - A developer's request to modify the existing permit for a shopping center on Topanga Canyon Boulevard will be discussed at a meeting tonight of the Canoga Park/Winnetka Neighborhood Planning Advisory Council. Developers would like to redesign the property layout, allow drive-through use and expand the hours of operation, possibly to 24-hour use, at the site in the 6800 block of Topanga Canyon Boulevard. It is at Basset Street, across from Canoga Park High School Canoga Park High School is a public school located in Canoga Park in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California, USA, within the Los Angeles Unified School District. It is located right across the street from the Topanga Plaza shopping center. . The advisory council will meet from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the offices of Dilbeck/James R. Gary Co. at 21747 Erwin St. - Daily News CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge teacher to lead schools commission Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. officials Tuesday picked an associate professor at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , to head the district's new Human Relations Education Commission. Edward Negrete Jr. was unanimously chosen by Board of Education members. He will start the job in April and receive a $85,000 annual salary. The organization he will lead was formed in August to replace seven school district commissions based on specific ethnic and interest groups within the community. Whereas the old commissions focused on the needs of their particular groups, the new organization will work to address the needs of all the district's many ethnic and racial communities. - Daily News |
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