BRIEFLY 2 DIE, GIRL INJURED IN THREE-CAR CRASH.PALMDALE - Three cars crashed, killing two people Wednesday and critically injuring a 7-year-old girl, fire officials reported. The crash was reported at 5:19 p.m. at Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling and East Avenue N, said Betty Parker, supervising fire 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. for the Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La . Firefighters and paramedics arrived to find people trapped in a burning vehicle, she said. Two victims were declared dead at the county fire helicopter was dispatched to take the girl to Childrens Hospital 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. . - Daily News Transient booked in beating death VAN NUYS - A 33-year-old transient was in custody in connection with the beating death of another homeless man with whom he had a dispute over a dog, police announced Wednesday. Nikolai Burkart was booked at Van Nuys jail Tuesday on suspicion of murder. He was being held in lieu of $1 million bail. Burkart assaulted David Heino, a 36-year-old transient from the Van Nuys area, on Jan. 17 because he didn't like the way he was handling his dog, police said. Officers found Heino badly injured in the 14600 block of Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. , police said. Heino underwent emergency surgery for cerebral bleeding at Martin Luther King-Drew Medical Center and never recovered from his wound. He died Sunday. - Daily News Suicide probed in Metrolink death COVINA - A 15-year-old boy who witnesses said deliberately stayed on railroad tracks was struck and killed by a commuter train Wednesday, the fifth fatal Metrolink incident this year. The name of the boy, who was a 10th-grader at Charter Oak High School, was withheld by authorities. Information from witnesses and a note found in a backpack near the boy indicated that he committed suicide by standing on the tracks until he was struck about 7:50 a.m. by the app said Sgt. John Zumwalt of the Covina Police Department. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Villaraigosa wins Baca's backing BOYLE HEIGHTS - Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. on Wednesday endorsed Antonio Villaraigosa's candidacy for a Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. seat.
Baca, who also supported the former Assembly speaker's failed run for mayor in 2001, said he believes Villaraigosa would support policies to keep the city safe. - City News Service Kohl's makes gift for child safety Kohl's Department Stores on Wednesday marked its entry into Southern California by announcing a $2.5 million commitment to support child safety and injury prevention programs at two Southland hospitals The department store chain is contributing $1.5 million to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and an additional $1 million to Children's Hospital of Orange County. - City News Service |
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