BRIEFLY : POLICE SEEKING MAN IN VAN NUYS ASSAULT.VAN NUYS - Detectives were searching Friday for a man who dragged a woman into a Van Nuys carport CARPORT Cardiology A clinical trial–Coronary Artery Restenosis Prevention on Repeated Thromboxane-Antagonism Study that evaluated thromboxane A2-receptor blockade in preventing restenosis after PCTA in Pts with CAD. and sexually assaulted her, authorities said. A man approached the woman from behind and pulled her into an empty carport in the 14200 block of Burbank Boulevard before raping her Thursday, said Officer Gabriel Colon of the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation). Police said the woman did not know the man, who rode away on a bicycle. - Daily News Authorities arrest 2 in racial incident RESEDA - Two men police believe have ties to white supremacist white supremacist n. One who believes that white people are racially superior to others and should therefore dominate society. white supremacy n. Noun 1. groups were arrested Thursday after one of them shouted racial slurs at two African-American women changing a tire at a gas station, police said Friday. The two men approached the women in the 18000 block of Vanowen Street at 12:30 a.m., with one of them yelling, ``You know this is white San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. . If I ever see you again, I'm going to beat your face in,'' police said. Joseph Keating, 22, of Reseda was arrested and booked for making terrorist threats, said Sgt. Roger Archambault, of the 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. Police Department's West Valley Division. The second suspect, who was not immediately identified, was also arrested and booked for refusing a police order, Archambault said. - Daily News Valley campus gets technology funding PACOIMA - Maclay Middle School in Pacoima has received a $15,000 grant from the GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Foundation for a manufacturing technology program that teaches students to make name tags, key chains and other products by using computers and machinery. The grant, to be presented to the school Monday, will be used to purchase a generator to operate computers and machinery in a 40-foot-long trailer that houses the Manufacturing Technologies Laboratory, said Ron Plank, Maclay's computer and technology coordinator. Once the generator is installed, the trailer will be taken to other schools 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. , Burbank and Glendale, Plank said. - Daily News Census might cost L.A., Hahn reports A federal court ruling Friday barring the use of statistical sampling in the 2000 census could cost the city millions of federal dollars, City Attorney Jim Hahn said. Los Angeles has taken the lead in two federal lawsuits, seeking a court order allowing the U.S. Census Bureau Noun 1. Census Bureau - the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States Bureau of the Census to use sampling in some places in the year 2000. Without statistical sampling, about 3.8 percent of the population went uncounted in 1990, according to the Census Bureau. - City News Service |
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