BRIEFLY : THREE FACE CHARGES AFTER POLICE CHASE.VAN NUYS - A rap singer and another man who led police on a chase through 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. earlier this week were charged Wednesday with felony evading and 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. , authorities said. A third defendant, Barbara Dozier Dozier may be: People:
Dozier was released on $15,000 bail Monday night, Soloman said. Her arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted will be scheduled early next month. The two other defendants, Mark Makonie, 25, of Los Angeles and Antonio Luis Gilbreath, 26, of Long Beach, were arraigned Wednesday in Van Nuys Municipal Court. - Daily News Slain boy's father pleads not guilty VAN NUYS - A Hollywood man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from the beating death of his 2-1/2-year-old son. David Helms, 37, was charged with the April 6, 1995, slaying of his son Lance, after new medical evidence surfaced showing that his ex-girlfriend, Eve Wingfield, could not have killed the boy. Wingfield, 25, spent nearly two years in prison before she was allowed to change her plea to a child-abuse charge not resulting in a youth's death. She is now on probation. Helms, held on $1.55 million bail, faces charges of murder, assault on a child causing death and child abuse likely to produce great bodily harm The medical idea of (grievous) bodily harm is more specific than legal ideas of assault or violence in general, and distinct from property damage. It refers to lasting harm done to the body, human or otherwise, although in its legal sense it is exclusively defined as lasting and death. - City News Service Burbank can tax airport parking A state appellate court A court having jurisdiction to review decisions of a trial-level or other lower court. An unsuccessful party in a lawsuit must file an appeal with an appellate court in order to have the decision reviewed. has ruled that the city of Burbank can continue to collect a 10 percent tax on Burbank Airport parking revenues, city officials announced Wednesday. A spokesman said the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority had not decided whether it would appeal Wednesday's decision by the California Court of Appeal to the California Supreme Court. Burbank imposed the tax, which has become highly politicized because of the dispute between the airport and the city over air terminal expansion, in 1995. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. city estimates, Burbank collects about $1.5 million annually through the tax. - Daily News Cosby slaying trial jury, alternates set ?6 SANTA MONICA - A jury of six women and six men, including whites, African-Americans and at least one Latino, was chosen Wednesday for the trial of a 19-year-old Ukrainian immigrant charged with killing Ennis Cosby. ``Ladies and gentlemen, we have selected a jury,'' Superior Court Judge David Perez announced at midmorning mid·morn·ing n. The middle of the morning. , ending less than two days of jury selection. Six alternate jurors, including two African-American women, were chosen during the afternoon. Mikail Markhasev, who is white, showed no reaction when the jury was seated for his trial. He is accused of fatally shooting Cosby, the son of comedian Bill Cosby, during a robbery attempt Jan. 16, 1997, near a Los Angeles freeway. - Associated Press Watson nominated to be ambassador SACRAMENTO - President Clinton nominated state Sen. Diane Watson, D-Los Angeles, on Wednesday to become U.S. ambassador to Micronesia. Watson, 64, a former school administrator and later trustee of the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. , in 1978 became the the first African-American woman elected to the California Senate. She is completing her fifth four-year term. She is barred by term limits from seeking re-election this year. - Associated Press Spielberg's stalker gets 25-to-life term SANTA MONICA - A man convicted of stalking Steven Spielberg was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Wednesday after the director told the judge he fears what would have happened if the defendant had confronted him. Superior Court Judge Steven Suzukawa agreed, saying defendant Jonathan Norman was ``obsessive and frightening, and I think he does present a danger to society.'' Spielberg addressed the court before the sentence was imposed on Norman, who was found guilty of a bizarre plot to invade Spielberg's mansion, hold the director and his family hostage and rape him. - Associated Press |
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