BRIEFLY : RIDING TEACHER GETS JAIL FOR HORSE ABUSE.VENTURA - The former operator of a children's riding program was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in jail for horse abuse, even as she vowed to continue attempts to withdraw her guilty plea. Rene L. Ferguson, 28, of Tarzana also will be on probation probation, method by which the punishment of a convicted offender is conditionally suspended. The offender must remain in the community and under the supervision of a probation officer, who is usually a court-appointed official. for five years, and she was ordered to pay $12,618 in restitution In the context of Criminal Law, state programs under which an offender is required, as a condition of his or her sentence, to repay money or donate services to the victim or society; with respect to maritime law, the restoration of articles lost by jettison, done when the and to stay away from animals. Ferguson, who once ran the Tiny Tots Riding Program in Ventura, pleaded guilty in February to one charge of animal neglect after four years of delays in her case. She later tried to withdraw her plea, claiming it had been coerced, but a judge refused to let her. Ferguson is awaiting sentencing in 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. for a recent conviction on similar but unrelated charges of animal abuse. - Daily News Building searched after bomb threat VENTURA - Deputies searched the Hall of Administration building Tuesday and cordoned off a parking lot after Ventura County workers found a cell phone flashing with a bomb threat message. There were no explosives found in the phone or elsewhere in the building, officials said. ``We don't treat these things "These Things" is an EP by She Wants Revenge, released in 2005 by Perfect Kiss, a subsidiary of Geffen Records. Music Video The music video stars Shirley Manson, lead singer of the band Garbage. Track Listing 1. "These Things [Radio Edit]" - 3:17 2. as hoaxes,'' said sheriff's Capt. Keith Parks Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park, GCB, KBE, MC and Bar, DFC, RAF (15 June 1892 - 6 February 1975) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War. . ``We treat them as the real thing and hope they are hoaxes.'' An employee found the phone in the county's elections office six days earlier, believed the message to be a hoax Hoax Balloon Hoax, The news story in 1844, reporting the transatlantic crossing of a balloon with eight passengers. [Am. Lit.: The Balloon Hoax in Poe] Piltdown man missing link turned out to be orangutan. [Br. Hist. and put the phone in the office's lost-and-found area. Another employee saw the same message Tuesday and notified authorities. - Daily News |
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