BRIEFLY : RED CROSS APPEALS FOR BLOOD DONATIONS.American Red Cross officials said Tuesday that blood inventories in the Southland are at a ``crisis level,'' and they appealed to public to help replenish supplies. In particular, type O positive and O negative blood is needed. - City News Service Soboroff's mayoral bid for 2000 official Businessman and mayoral adviser Steve Soboroff made it official on Tuesday, filing papers with the City Ethics Commission allowing him to raise funds to run for mayor in 2000. Soboroff, who also serves as president of the Recreation and Parks Commission and head of the Proposition BB Oversight Committee, joins City Attorney James Hahn as the only two official candidates for what is expected to be a crowded field. - Daily News Jury acquits acquit v. what a jury or judge sitting without a jury does at the end of a criminal trial if the jury or judge finds the accused defendant not guilty. (See: verdict) man in road rage See Web rage. case A Van Nuys Superior Court jury acquitted a Hollywood man on Tuesday of felony firearms charges stemming from an alleged bout of road rage in the Cahuenga Pass in November 1998, court officials said. After one day of deliberation, the jury found Frederick Washburn, 36, not guilty of assault with a firearm and brandishing a gun at a motorist, said the clerk in the court of Judge Michael Hoff. The jury deadlocked on identical charges pertaining to an alleged second victim of the attack and prosecutors dismissed those counts. - Daily News Supervisors to vote on secession issue The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a motion to pay 10 percent, or $225,000, of the cost of a San Fernando Valley secession study. The motion, by Supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky and Michael Antonovich, would make the county's contribution contingent on an equivalent 10 percent contribution by the city of Los Angeles. The 1999-2000 state budget includes $1.8 million of the study's cost, or 80 percent. - Daily News Police seek public's help in hit-and-run SUN VALLEY - Detectives asked for the public's help on Tuesday in finding a motorist who hit a disabled man who was crossing the street over the weekend. John Martinez Salazar, of Sun Valley, a father of nine children, died as a result of the collision. He was hit as he was crossing on a green light eastbound on Sherman Way at Vineland Avenue, said Detective Tom Whetzel of the Los Angeles Police Department's Valley Traffic Division. Rodney King says he beat own family FONTANA - Rodney King avoided a trial scheduled to begin this week by reaching a plea bargain on misdemeanor charges that he beat his 16-year-old daughter and her mother, a prosecutor said Tuesday. King pleaded guilty in June to three charges: cruelty and inflicting injury on a child, corporal injury to a parent of a child and vandalizing property, said Deputy District Attorney Briye McCann. - Associated Press Board opposing code-overlay plan The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors went on record Tuesday against a proposed area code overlay for the San Fernando Valley's 818 zone. The California Public Utilities Commission issued a draft decision on June 30 proposing the overlay. A vote is scheduled for Aug. 5. - City News Service |
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