BRIEFLY : SUSPECT FIT FOR TRIAL IN 7 FAMILY DEATHS.A Glendale man charged with starting a fire that killed his wife and six children has been found mentally competent to stand trial for murder, a 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. County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman said. Jorjik Avanesian was found incompetent to trial in 1996, but Pasadena Superior Court Judge Janice Croft reversed that decision Thursday after psychiatrists re-evaluated him, spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
Avanesian could face the death penalty if convicted of the charges stemming from the February 1996 incident, when his wife and six children, ages 4 through 17, were found in a fire-gutted Glendale apartment. No trial date has been set, but a pretrial conference A meeting of the parties to an action and their attorneys held before the court prior to the commencement of actual courtroom proceedings. A pretrial conference is a meeting of the parties to a case conducted prior to trial. has been scheduled for April 20, Gibbons said. - Daily News Parks hopes to get LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. federal grant LAPD Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. said this week he is hopeful that the U.S. Justice Department will award his department a grant to expand the department's Training Evaluation and Management System, which tracks officer behavior, including complaints and uses of force, to help identify problems that require action. ``It looks very good for us,'' Parks said of the grant application. ``The first part is what we call `super-TEAMS,' to develop a more comprehensive tracking mechanism for risk management. This will put in all of the narrative and put the whole system in place so we can pull up the information.'' Parks said the grant may be discussed today, when he is scheduled to meet with Vice President Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore and former L.A. Police Commissioner Ray Fisher, now the No. 3 official in the Justice Department. - Daily News Two hurt in 3-car crash on freeway SIMI VALLEY - At least two people were injured Friday night, one critically, in a multi-car crash on the Ronald Reagan Freeway, officials said. Louise Halpin, 62, of Simi Valley was listed in critical condition at Simi Valley Hospital Simi Valley Hospital (SVH) is a Seventh-day Adventist hospital located located in Simi Valley, California. SVH is a member of Adventist Health. New Construction Simi Valley Hospital is in the process of building a new wing to the hospital. , officials said. A 4-year-old girl who was in another vehicle was in serious condition at Los Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
The crash involved three vehicles on the Ronald Reagan Freeway shortly before 6 p.m., said Ray Sandoval, a CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. in Ventura. - Daily News Missing Valley man needs medication NORTH HILLS - Police and relatives are seeking a 52-year-old man with a history of mental problems who has not been seen since he left for a walk Monday morning. Juan Olmos Esqueda normally goes for a walk in the mornings around his block in North Hills, said his niece, Janet Castaneda. After an early morning walk Monday, he left for a second walk at 7 a.m. but never returned to his Sophia Avenue home near Hayvenhurst Avenue, she said. Esqueda should be on medication and can become disoriented dis·o·ri·ent tr.v. dis·o·ri·ent·ed, dis·o·ri·ent·ing, dis·o·ri·ents To cause (a person, for example) to experience disorientation. Adj. 1. and aggressive, Castaneda said. This is the first time he's disappeared, she said. Esqueda is 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 180 to 190 pounds, has gray hair, is slightly balding on top and has a mustache. He was wearing black pants, a red-and-black-plaid shirt and Nike shoes. Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at the Devonshire Division of 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 . at (818)
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- Daily News Kids under 9 cleared to show pigs at fair Delighting a local livestock organization, organizers of 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. Fair agreed Friday to hold off on proposed age restrictions for children wanting to show their pigs at the fair in June. Fair organizers were seeking to prevent children under 9 from exhibiting their porkers because the officials feared some are too small to handle the thick-bodied animals. But parents of the children in the Grange club struck a compromise with the fair organizers, pledging to remain in the pen with their children when the youngsters display their swine for auction and showmanship contests. Fair officials said they are scheduled to discuss the policy for future years in April. - Daily News Road no speedway, CHP warns drivers The California Highway Patrol is using extra officers and radar guns to target motorists who see the reopening of Kanan Dume Road as an opportunity to put the pedal to the metal. ``We want them to know this is not going to be an open raceway,'' said CHP Officer Dwight McDonald, a spokesman at the West Valley station. Kanan Dume Road was reopened Monday after 18 months of landslide repairs. - Daily News Boy shot, wounded in Humphrey Park PACOIMA - A boy was wounded in his leg in a drive-by shooting drive-by shooting Public health A phenomenon in which one or more persons–commonly members of street gangs, open fire à la Al Capone from moving vehicles, often in retaliation for an alleged wrong-doing by a rival gang at Humphrey Park on Friday, authorities said. The shooting was reported at about 2 p.m. in the 12500 block of Fillmore Street, said Officer John Doerbecker of the Los Angeles Police Department's Foothill Division. The unidentified boy's gunshot wound was not considered life-threatening, Doerbecker said. Officials released no further information Friday night. - Daily News Bernson wants city to lease reservoir Councilman Hal Bernson has called for the city to lease the Chatsworth Nature/Preserve Reservoir to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is an agency of the state of California in the United States founded in 1979 and dedicated to the acquisition of land in the Santa Susana and Santa Monica Mountains and the Simi Hills, north and west of Los Angeles, for preservation as open to protect it from any potential development. Bernson, in a proposal to be considered by the City Council next week, said Friday that the lease would be for 10 years and would allow the conservancy to protect and restore the area while saving the Department of Water and Power up to $50,000 a year. At one time the land was used as a reservoir, but it can no longer be used because of damage suffered in the 1971 Sylmar Earthquake. - Daily News |
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