BRIEFLY : RIORDAN BALLOT MOTION DENIED.A federal judge refused Tuesday to grant a motion by 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. ordering the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. to revise a ballot summary
for a charter reform initiative on the April 8 ballot.
Attorneys for the mayor had filed papers arguing the ballot summary was inaccurate and biased against the initiative, but U.S. District Court Judge Mariana Pfaelzer Mariana Pfaelzer is a U.S. District Court Judge in the Ninth Circuit. She is probably best remembered for her role in striking down California's Proposition 187, which would have denied services to illegal aliens. decided that the issue was not within her jurisdiction to decide. Jonathan Gluck, an attorney for the initiative backers, said his clients will be consulted about whether to pursue their claim elsewhere. ?13Daily News Group seeks to turnfield into diamonds A nonprofit group that wants to turn a Sepulveda Basin cornfield into two baseball diamonds for 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. youth will give the public a sneak preview sneak preview n. A single public showing of a movie before its general release. Noun 1. sneak preview - a preview to test audience reactions of the proposal Thursday in Encino. Concerned that too many youngsters are getting into trouble, the 20th District American Legion Baseball American Legion Baseball is a variety of amateur baseball played by teenage boys in 45 states in the USA. Purpose According to the American Legion, the purpose of American Legion Baseball is to give young men "an opportunity to develop their skills, personal fitness, Commission has proposed building the sports complex on 23 acres of federal land near White Oak Avenue and Oxnard Street. ``We hope we will be able to steer youngsters straight through baseball,'' said commissioner Mel Swerdling. ``I believe in the old cliche, `Nip it in the bud.' '' The commission would use the fields for its regular baseball leagues for youth between the ages of 16 and 18, but Swerdling said the proposal's main thrust is to set up baseball clinics for younger children who have little to do in the summer. The project will be discussed at Thursday's hearing, which is set to begin at the Balboa Sports Center, 17015 Burbank Blvd., at 7 p.m. ?13- Daily News Woman recants rape accusation A woman who accused her sheriff's deputy husband of raping her recanted the allegations Tuesday, saying she lied to get back at him for being unfaithful. In a preliminary hearing that will determine whether Deputy Harris Mintz must stand trial, the woman testified that she and her husband routinely had consensually, ``rough sex' that included hair-pulling and spanking spanking Pediatrics Corporal punishment, usually of children, in which the buttocks, are pummeled, swatted, or otherwise struck. See Corporal punishment Sexology Slapping, usually of the buttocks as a part of sexuoerotic activity. Cf Sadomasochism. . ``I was very angry at my husband,'' said the woman, whose name was ordered withheld by Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Stephen Marcus. Mintz, a 10-year Sheriff's Department veteran, is being held without bail on charges of raping his wife three times between January 1993 and May 1995, and raping a Calabasas woman in December 1995. He was assigned most recently to the department's Lost Hills station. In September, the county agreed to pay a $100,000 settlement to the Calabasas woman who accused Mintz of raping her. He allegedly attacked her in her home while on duty Dec. 25, 1995, after asking to enter the residence on official business, prosecutors said. ?13- City News Service Proposals advance for police merger Three City Council committees jointly approved negotiating positions Tuesday for the long-proposed merger of 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. transit police into the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . and Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County PoliceThe Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. . The 4-0 approval by the committees sends the proposals to the City Council, which is expected to take them up next week. Armed with the proposals, city officials would then try to complete negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority by mid-March, to allow a merger to take place by July 1. City officials raised 27 issues of concern in the difficult, long-running negotiations, but Linda Bohlinger, the MTA's interim chief executive officer, said her agency assented to all but four of them, and of the remaining issues, ``none of them are deal-breakers.'' |
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