BRIEFLY 4 DETAINED, KNIFE, GUN FOUND IN CAR.SUN VALLEY - Authorities on Wednesday stopped a car seen cruising near John H. Francis Polytechnic High School John H. Francis Polytechnic High School is a secondary school located in Los Angeles, California, United States. Polytechnic, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Despite its name, Polytechnic is a comprehensive high school. in Sun Valley, detained the four occupants and seized a loaded shotgun and a knife, police said. No injuries were reported in the incident that began about 7:45 a.m. near the school at Roscoe Boulevard and Whitsett Avenue, said Deputy Chief Larry Manion of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Police Department. School police had been notified that a man with a firearm was on or near the campus and went to investigate, Manion said. - City News Service Cops get funding for checkpoints The LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. and 155 other law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). will share $4.7 million in state grants to conduct sobriety checkpoints throughout the year, officials said Wednesday. 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 . was awarded the largest grant - for $347,200 - to target drunk drivers during the national ``You Drink & Drive, You Lose'' campaign, scheduled Dec. 17-Jan. 3. Other grants went to the Burbank Police Department The Burbank Police Department is the police department serving Burbank, California. Tim Stehr became the Police Chief of the department on August 1, 2007. The previous chiefs were Thomas Hoefel, David Newsham and Glen Bell. , $52,467; Glendale Police Department, $51,315; and Lancaster sheriff's station, $27,048. - City News Service Program aimed at saving homes Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn will join state and federal officials today to announce a $5 million program to help people in danger of losing their homes. Hahn, along with officials from Fannie Mae Fannie Mae: see Federal National Mortgage Association. , will announce the housing agency will fund the effort to help seniors, minorities and the poor who are victims of abusive lending practices and facing the loss of their homes. The program is designed to help those who are paying high interest on mortgages or living in squalid conditions. - Daily News Police ask help in finding killer PACOIMA - Police asked for help Wednesday in finding the killer of a 35-year-old man gunned down on a Pacoima sidewalk by someone in a dark-colored vehicle. Salvador Valencia was found at Woodcock woodcock: see snipe. woodcock Any of five species (family Scolopacidae) of plump, sharp-billed migratory birds of damp, dense woodlands in North America, Europe, and Asia. Avenue and Louvre Louvre (l  `vrə), foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent. Street about 12:15 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Anyone with more information about the shooting is asked to call detectives at (818) 834-3115. - City News Service Mom sentenced to 25 years to life SAN FERNANDO - A North Hills woman convicted of assault and murder for her newborn son's suffocation suffocation: see asphyxia. was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years to life in state prison. Maria Legarda, 25, was convicted Nov. 4 of second-degree murder and assault on a child causing death. Authorities said Legarda killed the baby shortly after he was born in her bathroom, then put his body into a trunk at her home before going to Olive View-UCLA Medical Center Olive View-UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located in the Sylmar neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. The hospital was founded on October 27, 1920, and is funded by Los Angeles County [1]. for treatment. Employees there notified police. - City News Service Nurses reach pact for healthy raise After working nearly a year and a half without a contract, 6,000 Los Angeles County nurses reached an agreement with county government officials Wednesday that secures a 9 percent raise over the next year and up to 14.5 percent in raises by July 2006, union officials said. Nurses hope a new 20-step salary structure, that guarantees 2 percent step increases each year on top of normal raises, will stop the county's nursing hemorrhage. The county has not been able to maintain safe staffing levels because its nurses make less money and have fewer salary steps than nurses at other area hospitals, officials say. - Daily News |
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