BRIEFLY : WOMAN CONVICTED OF MURDERING CHILD.A Littlerock woman who ran down an 8-year-old girl with her car after a quarrel with the child's mother was found guilty Wednesday of second-degree murder by a Van Nuys jury. Doreen Gutierrez, 35, ran down her roommate's daughter Dec. 19 after the woman refused a ride home from a party in Palmdale, saying Gutierrez was too drunk to drive, prosecutors said. - Daily News Valley student wins UCSD UCSD University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California) UCSD User Centered System Design UCSD Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District (Illinois) UCSD Ultra Cool Sexy Dudes cussing case The University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. , has agreed to revise its free-speech policies to settle a lawsuit filed by a student from 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. area who was punished for failing to remove a political sign containing an obscene word from a window of his dorm room. University attorneys also agreed to review anti-harassment policies at all nine UC campuses to ensure students' rights aren't violated, American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. lawyers said Wednesday in announcing the settlement. ``From the very beginning, I knew I was right and, perhaps blindly, I just always hoped the world was fair,'' said Ryan Benjamin Shapiro, 19, a sophomore from Hidden Hills majoring in political science and economic science. - Associated Press CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge teacher wins case on age bias A federal civil rights agency in San Francisco has settled an age discrimination lawsuit against the California State University system California State University System, coordinating agency established in 1960 by the merger of individual California state colleges, now consisting of 23 campuses. for $90,000 in back pay to a Northridge teacher who was forced to retire at 70. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced the agreement Wednesday in a 1997 case that challenged former age limits in CSU's early retirement program. Sol Buchalter, former Finance Department chairman at CSUN, taught from 1957 and sued after he was required to leave in 1995. Besides the $90,000, he will be allowed to resume teaching part-time under rules that have since been changed, officials said. The agreement, approved by a federal magistrate, prohibits the university from enforcing age limits in any future early retirement program. - Associated Press Moorpark shooting suspect in custody MOORPARK - One man suffered multiple gunshot wounds and another was being questioned by police Wednesday after an afternoon shooting in a quiet residential neighborhood near Moorpark College. ``We've got a suspect in custody. We've got a victim in the hospital,'' said Eric Nishimoto, spokesman for the Ventura County Sheriff's Department The Ventura County Sheriff's Department (VCSD) provides law enforcement for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, USA, as well as several cities within the county. The cities that VCSD serves are Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, and Thousand Oaks. . Jason Weaver, 26, was in critical condition and underwent surgery Wednesday evening 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. , said hospital spokeswoman. - Daily News |
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