BRIEFLY : RENT PLAN EXPECTED TO DRAW THOUSANDS.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. Housing Authority expects to be flooded with as many as 200,000 applications for its Section 8 rent subsidy program, which for the first time in eight years will accept new applicants, starting today. The program, which offers rent subsidies by making housing assistance payments to private landlords, is aimed only at very low-income families, senior citizens and the disabled. Applications will be accepted until Oct. 1, after which a lottery will determine the registration list placement. Applications are available at 22 sites in the Valley, including branch libraries and Social Security offices. To find out where to pick up an application, how to access the applications online or to register by phone, call the Section 8 telephone hotline at (800) 555-4501. - Daily News 2 injured in crash near mayor's house A car crashed into a block wall surrounding the official residence of the Los Angeles mayor Monday, critically injuring two women, the Fire Department reported. Paramedics were sent to Sixth Street and Lorraine Boulevard in Hancock Park
Hancock Park is a park in Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California which is the location of the La Brea Tar Pits, the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, and LACMA. just before noon, spokesman Bob Collis said. Mayor Richard Riordan Richard J. Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is a Republican politician from California, U.S. who served as the California Secretary of Education from 2003–2005 and as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1993–2001. Riordan ran for Governor of California unsuccessfully in 2002. does not live in the Hancock Park residence used for official city events. He makes his home in Brentwood. - City News Service Hernandez's record cleared by April? City Councilman Mike Hernandez could get his record cleared of a cocaine possession conviction by April, if he keeps meeting the terms of a court-ordered drug program he entered in the fall, a judge said Monday. The determination was made during a hearing in which Hernandez, who earlier pleaded guilty to the cocaine charge, thanked God for helping keep him sober the past 388 days. - City News Service Man sentenced for obstruction An Armenian man from Tujunga wrongly accused in October of plotting to kill a U.S. Secret Service agent was sentenced Monday to 27 months in federal prison for obstructing justice. Arshak Kazarian was one of five men accused of an assassination Assassination See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. plot. Those charges were dropped after questions were raised about a government informant informant Historian Medtalk A person who provides a medical history and authorities discovered that secretly recorded conversations between the men were mistranslated. Four of the men pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice A criminal offense that involves interference, through words or actions, with the proper operations of a court or officers of the court. The integrity of the judicial system depends on the participants' acting honestly and without fear of reprisals. for plotting to bribe BRIBE, crim. law. The gift or promise, which is accepted, of some advantage, as the inducement for some illegal act or omission; or of some illegal emolument, as a consideration, for preferring one person to another, in the performance of a legal act. the agent and were sentenced. - City News Service |
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