BRIEFLY 73 AREA STUDENTS VIE FOR ART AWARDS.Nine students 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. and Ventura County were among 73 chosen as semifinalists in The Music Center's Spotlight Awards competition, center officials said Tuesday. More than 800 high school students from throughout Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, competed in the program, which will provide $5,000 and $2,500 cash awards to the winners and runners-up. Finalists will be chosen by March through private auditions; the final competition is April 17 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center (which is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the United States). The Music Center's other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. . - Daily News Hacker facing jail after guilty plea OSSIPEE, N.H. - A teen-age hacker who was briefly linked to a highly publicized series of hacking attacks against major companies pleaded guilty Tuesday to three misdemeanors. Dennis Moran, 18, who went by the name of ``Coolio,'' broke into rsa.com, operated by Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. company RSA Security RSA, The Security Division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, and maintains offices in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, and Japan. RSA organizes the annual RSA conference. Inc., and dare.com, an anti-drug site connected to 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 . . If a judge approves a plea agreement, Moran will serve nine months to a year in jail and pay $5,000 in restitution to each of three victims. He originally faced two felony charges, each punishable by up to 15 years in prison. - Associated Press Defendant denies insurance fraud A diagnostic neuro-radiologist indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. for allegedly defrauding insurance companies out of some $4.5 million pleaded innocent Tuesday to federal charges. Stanley Furmanski entered his plea to 13 counts of mail fraud. Furmanski is accused of collecting $4.5 million in insurance claims between 1986 and 1992, from a variety of companies that were unaware that he held policies elsewhere, said James V. DeSarno, assistant director in charge of the FBI in Los Angeles. Agents have seized several of Furmanski's airplanes, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and negotiable instruments from his Los Angeles residence, which the FBI has linked to the allegedly fraudulent profits. - City News Service |
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