BRIEFLY : RESTRUCTURING PLAN GOES TO MTA BOARD.The 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. board today will take up a complex financial restructuring plan that says three mothballed rail lines need to be ``re-thought and re-justified'' but shows no way to finance them. The plan, required by the federal government as a condition of unfreezing subway funding for a Red Line extension to North Hollywood, also says the agency faces huge deficits in its operations and bus capital programs, but can meet a federal consent decree to improve bus service. The 129-page report was released late Friday, a move that angered Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina, who wrote a scathing letter complaining that the report's late arrival, with little warning or briefing, cut the board out of decision making. - Daily News Council finalizes park funding list 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 confirmed the list of projects slated for funding under the Proposition K $25 million bond issue for recreation and parks programs. 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. is slated for $4.7 million in the first year of funding for the five-year program. - Daily News Council to consider extending benefits Concerned that two LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officers who were injured in the North Hollywood shootout The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, California on February 28, 1997. ran out of city benefits before they got pension hearings, City Council members Tuesday called for a change in the program to extend benefits in the future. The motion submitted to the council by Council members Richard Alarcon and Jackie Goldberg asks that the city explore the feasibility of advancing pension benefits to officers when their injured-on-duty benefits expire before a pension hearing can be held. Officers Martin Whitfield and Stuart Guy have had to turn to the Police Memorial Foundation for financial help when their IOD benefits ran out in March, two months before pension hearings are scheduled. - Daily News `Angel of Death' to do TV interviews After slipping out of sight for nearly two weeks to avoid the media, the man who police said confessed to as many as 50 mercy killings is now taking to the airwaves with interviews on two television shows later this week. Efren Saldivar, the self-described ``Angel of Death'' who told police he killed terminally ill patients at Glendale Adventist Medical Center Glendale Adventist Medical Center is located in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, California. It was founded in 1905. Glendale Adventist Medical Center is a sister institution of Loma Linda University Medical Center and is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist hospital system. , has taped a segment with NBC's ``Extra'' set to air Thursday at 7 p.m., officials said. A spokesman for ABC's ``20/20'' said the show also will broadcast another taped interview with the 28-year-old Tujunga resident Friday at 10 p.m. - Daily News Authorities arrest wife-rape suspect SANTA CLARITA - After sheriff's deputies, a search and rescue team, police dogs and a helicopter crew scoured the area for the suspect for four hours Tuesday, authorities arrested a man accused of raping his estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. wife. Herbert Whitfield, 33, of Newhall was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. and spousal rape, said Lt. Dan Castillo of the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. sheriff's station. After Whitfield's vehicle was spotted stuck in mud by Quail Lake at 11 a.m. Tuesday, deputies searched the area and located Whitfield at about 4:30 p.m. in a home near Gorman, where he was arrested, Castillo said. He was being held at Santa Clarita jail in lieu of $500,000 bail. - Daily News |
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