BRIEFLY ANTI-ARAB HATE CRIMES ON RISE.SACRAMENTO - Police are investigating an average of 10 anti-Arab hate crimes a day in six major California cities since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the state Attorney General's Office said Thursday. The 236 crimes have targeted Arab-Americans, Muslims, Afghan-Americans, Sikhs, Asians and others mistaken for Arabs or Muslims, said Attorney General Bill Lockyer William Westwood "Bill" Lockyer (born May 8, 1941) is the current State Treasurer of California. Prior to this, he served as California's Attorney General and head of the Department of Justice for the U.S. state of California. . Between Sept. 11 and Sept. 30, the 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. police and sheriff's departments reported 167 hate crimes aimed at those groups. - 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. Man must stand trial in fatal arson A 29-year-old man must stand trial on charges that he set an arson blaze at a Granada Hills townhome that killed his 4-year-old son and injured his ex-girlfriend, the boy's mother, a judge ruled Thursday. Among witnesses called to testify against Duane West Duane "D" West (b. November 17, 1965 in Newark, New Jersey) is an African American motivational speaker, television personality, author, and entrepreneur. West is best known for his appearances on the daytime talk show Maury during the preliminary hearing was Nicole Taylor, who testified that he choked and punched her repeatedly before pouring a flammable liquid Generally, a flammable liquid means a liquid which may catch fire easily. In the USA, there is a precise definition of flammable liquid as one with a flashpoint below 100 degrees Fahrenheit. on her head and setting her ablaze, said Deputy District Attorney Craig Mitchell. - City News Service Fishermen strike over squid price VENTURA - Dozens of squid fishermen are on strike because fish-processing plants again lowered the price for a ton of the 10-armed mollusk mollusk: see Mollusca. mollusk or mollusc Any of some 75,000 species of soft-bodied invertebrate animals (phylum Mollusca), many of which are wholly or partly enclosed in a calcium carbonate shell secreted by the mantle, a soft . - Associated Press Job fair Saturday for LAX workers The city will hold a job fair Saturday for workers displaced from airport jobs after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, with more than 50 booths representing city departments and other entities at the Los Angeles Police Department's Ahmanson Training Facility near LAX, officials said. - City News Service Venice man was in mental hospital A Venice man whose bizarre behavior diverted a Los Angeles-bound airliner to Shreveport recently spent five days in a mental hospital, and told a stewardess the plane should avoid Texas, witnesses told a magistrate Thursday. U.S. Magistrate Robert Shemwell ordered Edward A. Stephenson, 36, held without bond while undergoing 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. . - Associated Press Exhibit removal angers artists Local and national artists, the 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. of Southern California and other groups Thursday protested the removal of Alex Donis' exhibit ``War'' from the Watts Towers Art Center. - City News Service Police officer badly wounded A police officer on patrol in the city's Harbor area was shot and critically wounded Wednesday night, authorities said. - Associated Press Powell kin works for Davis election SACRAMENTO - Andre W. Lewis, a close relative of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, is working for Democratic Gov. Gray Davis' re-election campaign. - Associated Press |
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