BRIEFLY : REAGAN'S GRANDSON TOLD TO STAND TRIAL.VAN NUYS - Ronald Reagan's 20-year-old grandson must stand trial on auto burglary, grand theft and petty theft charges, a judge ruled Wednesday. Van Nuys Municipal Court Judge Alice Altoon made the ruling after a preliminary hearing on the evidence. Cameron Reagan is the son of Michael Reagan Michael Edward Reagan (born March 18, 1945 as John L. Flaugher), adopted son of the late United States President Ronald Reagan and his first wife, the late Jane Wyman, is the host of a conservative talk radio show, the Michael Reagan Show , the former president's oldest son. The case was filed against him in November. - City News Service CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge gets funding for anti-gang study The state Assembly has awarded 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 , a $100,000 grant to study the success a Pacoima group has had in reducing gang-related crime in the northeast 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. . Assemblyman Tony Cardenas Tony Cardenas served in the California State Assembly. In the Assembly, he had the powerful position of chair of the Budget Committee. He is now a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 6th district, which includes parts of the San Fernando Valley. , D-Panorama City, said the study's goal is to analyze the methods used by the nonprofit Communities in Schools to broker and maintain a 1993 gang truce so that other areas can replicate the program throughout the state or nation. ``To a lot of people, working with gangs is this mystery - something intangible, weird and out there,'' said Cardenas, who wrote the bill to conduct the study. ``I think the program is something that can be utilized in other communities that have gangs, whether it's in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , 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. , Chicago or a little community.'' - Daily News Library commences kids reading effort The county Public Library kicked off its third annual Cultural Arts Passport program this week to encourage children to read. Rewards, called ``passports,'' provide free or reduced admission to 36 museums and cultural institutions when a family checks out two or more books from any of the county's 87 libraries for family reading. About 50,000 passports will be distributed between now and Feb. 14. - Daily News Council OKs street repair list for 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. The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. approved on Wednesday a wish list of
more than 200 proposed street improvements and other transportation
projects that will be submitted to the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority with a request for funds.
More than 80 of the projects would benefit the San Fernando Valley. The list will be sent next to the MTA, where Los Angeles will compete with 87 other cities in the county for a share as much as $509 million in transportation funds. The city's list includes improvements at the Van Nuys Metrolink station; widening of sections of Sepulveda Boulevard, Fallbrook Avenue, Burbank Boulevard, Cahuenga Boulevard, Mulholland Drive For the motion picture, see . Mulholland Drive is a very well-known road in Los Angeles, California named after engineer William Mulholland. A portion of it is also called Mulholland Highway. and Victory Boulevard; repair of bus-damaged streets; and improvement of intersections at the Ventura Freeway in Woodland Hills. The city will find out in June which proposals will receive funding. - Daily News Trigger man guilty in murder-for-hire The gunman in the murder-for-hire of the owner of the Silent Movie theater in the Fairfax District was convicted of first-degree murder and other charges that make him eligible for the death penalty. The verdicts for Christian Rodriguez, 22, were reached last week by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury and kept sealed until Wednesday. - City News Service Rock singer freed, back on probation A Los Angeles judge released Stone Temple Pilots Stone Temple Pilots (abbreviated STP) was a popular Grammy Award-winning American hard rock band in the 1990s and early 2000s, consisting of Scott Weiland (vocals), brothers Robert (bass guitar, vocals) and Dean DeLeo (guitar), and Eric Kretz (drums, percussion). lead singer Scott Weiland from custody Wednesday, putting him back on probation after his reinstatement to an outpatient rehabilitation program. Weiland, who pleaded guilty last year to a felony heroin possession charge, was arrested recently on a reported probation violation. That came after a rehabilitation program director told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler that the singer hadn't been complying with the rules. Fidler said Weiland will have to spend a year in county jail if he violates his probation. - City News Service |
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