BRIEFLY : VALLEY MARKET SELLS LUCKY LOTTERY TICKET.PACOIMA - Someone is $4 million richer after buying the winning Super Lotto ticket at Mercado de Valle for Wednesday night's drawing. The winning numbers were 20, 25, 29, 32, 35 and 51. Lottery officials said no one had stepped forward with the winning ticket late Thursday. The sale of a winning ticket means $20,000 - equal to a fraction of the $4 million jackpot - for the Mercado de Valle, 11673 Glenoaks Blvd. ``We sold it? My goodness, I can't believe it,'' store clerk Martha Carrera said on Thursday morning. ``We're very excited,'' manager Sal Carrera said after the news sunk in. Saturday's jackpot also will be $4 million. - Daily News Ng gets questioned in his murder trial SANTA ANA Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. - Given an unexpected chance to question Charles Ng in court, his accusers Thursday bored in on details of his surprise testimony, hoping to prove him a liar as well as the murderer of 12 people in a sex-slave scheme. The 38-year-old Hong Kong native, who faces capital punishment capital punishment, imposition of a penalty of death by the state. History Capital punishment was widely applied in ancient times; it can be found (c.1750 B.C.) in the Code of Hammurabi. if convicted, insisted on taking the stand against his attorneys' advice this week. On the second day of direct examination, he sounded confident and assured when defense attorney Lewis Clapp elicited denials that he ever intended to hurt anyone. Beginning cross-examination, however, prosecutor Sharlene Honnaka denied Ng the chance for broad denials and dug for contradictions. Authorities say Ng and his survivalist sur·viv·al·ist n. One who has personal or group survival as a primary goal in the face of difficulty, opposition, and especially the threat of natural catastrophe, nuclear war, or societal collapse. Noun 1. pal Leonard Lake imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- , raped and tortured the women while using the men's identities to take money from banks and credit accounts. Ng's attorneys blame the murders on Lake, who committed suicide by taking cyanide in 1985 after South San Francisco South San Francisco, city (1990 pop. 54,312), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1908. South San Francisco has several industrial parks; its manufactures include medical supplies and equipment, foods, paint, paper products, consumer goods, and clothing. police arrested him for shoplifting Ask a Lawyer Question Country: United States of America State: Florida caught shoplifting at sears 12/05/05, first time, 20yearsold, have no criminal record. . Prosecutors have repeatedly shown the nine-woman, three-man jury separate videos showing Lake and Ng with two victims who were bound and threatened, mostly by Lake, with rape and death if they did not submit to sex slavery. - Associated Press Heart patient found after fleeing care PANORAMA CITY - A day after he walked out of a 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. hospital with a $2,000 heart monitor still attached to him, 68-year-old Gordon Henry Sheppard Jr. was found Thursday. Sheppard showed up about 20 miles away at an Inglewood area senior center in fair condition without the heart monitor, officials said. How he got there is anyone's guess, said Bill Daniel, the chief executive officer at Mission Community Hospital, where Sheppard had been. Defying doctor's orders, the slightly hunchback hunchback, abnormal outward curvature of the spine in the thoracic region. It is also known as kyphosis and humpback, and in its severe form a noticeable hump is evident on the back. Sheppard walked out of Mission Community about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday with a heart monitor still taped to his chest, police and Daniel said. Sheppard is believed to be a transient who wanders through the San Fernando Valley, said Officer Jason Lee, a spokesman for 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 . . He was in the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation psychiatric evaluation The assessment of a person's mental, social, psychologic functionality. See DSM-IV-table multiaxial assessment, Personality testing, Psychiatric history, Psychiatric interview. , Lee said, and his doctor ordered him to remain because of his history of strokes and heart problems. The senior center found a place for Sheppard to stay temporarily, Daniel said. - Daily News Software supplier finds piracy raging Detectives hired by a software supplier found widespread piracy by unlicensed insurance agents in the Los Angeles area, according to a report by Insurance Journal. The FSC FSC See: Foreign Sales Corporation Rater is a software package widely used by insurance agents statewide. In June, Robert Meyerson, president of Agoura Hills-based FSC, hired Discreet Intervention Inc. to investigate software piracy. Detectives found the pirated software being used by firms from Los Angeles to Calexico. In addition to insurance agents, the pirated software was being used in furniture stores, check-cashing stores and even a wedding chapel in Hollywood. The information was given to the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department's High Tech Crimes Unit. The illegal use of the software is a felony, officials said. Meyerson estimated that FSC loses $210 a month for each account that is illegally acquired. Last year, he estimated that this revenue loss was almost $750,000. - City News Service Tractor crash kills 50-year-old man CAMARILLO - A 50-year-old man died Thursday after he was pinned under a farm tractor at a nursery in the 8600 block of Santa Rosa Road, the Ventura County Fire Department Not to be confused with Ventura Fire Department. The Ventura County Fire Department (VCFD) provides fire protection and emergency response services for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, and for six other cities within the county. reported. The man's identity was not released pending notification of relatives. The accident occurred at 1:55 p.m. when the vehicle, which had a 150-gallon sprayer tank on it, went off an embankment and pinned the man underneath, an official said. - Daily News |
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