BRIEFLY BACA SUES COUNTY OVER TERM LIMITS.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. is suing the Board of Supervisors in an attempt to force the removal of a March 2002 ballot measure regarding creation of term limits for elected officers in 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. County. - City News Service Police planning sting at crosswalk ENCINO - In response to residents' complaints, police will conduct a crosswalk sting this morning at a busy Encino intersection where motorists often fail to stop for pedestrians. From 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. today, a plainclothes plain·clothes or plain-clothes adj. Wearing civilian clothes while on duty to avoid being identified as police or security: a plainclothes detective. officer will pose as a pedestrian and attempt to use a crosswalk at Balboa Boulevard and Edward Everett Horton Edward Everett Horton (March 18, 1886–September 29, 1970) was an American character actor with a long career including motion pictures, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons. Horton was born in Brooklyn, New York to Isabella S. Lane. Drivers who fail to stop could be cited for a moving violation A moving violation is any violation of the law, committed by the driver of a vehicle, while it is in motion. The term "motion" distinguishes it from parking violations. While parking violations are charged against a vehicle (which will be towed if violations go unpaid or are and face hundreds of dollars in penalties under the California Vehicle Code The California Vehicle Code contains the majority of statutes relating to the ownership and operation of motor vehicles in the state of California in the United States. It contains extensive portions relating to the organization and function of the California Department of Motor . - Daily News Names released after fatal crash TARZANA - Two men killed early Sunday in an Oxnard Street collision were identified Monday as 22-year-old Erasmo Ernesto Amaya of Canoga Park and 18-year-old Jony William Menjivar-Jovel of East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. , said Scott Carrier, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. - Daily News L.A. air reopens to private planes The Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control is opening the skies over 12 more cities to all private planes, leaving only Washington, New York Washington is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 4,742 at the 2000 census. The town is named after George Washington, who passed through the town during the revolution. and Boston with limits on the small aircraft. On Monday, the airspace over Atlanta, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami and San Francisco reopened to all private planes. - Associated Press Not guilty plea in airliner ruckus A man accused of making an anti-American threat aboard an Air Canada flight Sept. 27 pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court to a charge of interfering with a flight crew. The trial of Javid Naghani, 37, of Woodland Hills is scheduled to begin Nov. 27. The Iranian national allegedly made the threat after he was found smoking in a lavatory. - City News Service Convictions urged in fatal 1994 blast RIVERSIDE - Prosecutors will ask a jury this week to convict two scientists of illegally burning rocket propellants seven years ago in an incident that led to a deadly blast. Two Rocketdyne scientists were killed and a technician burned in July 1994 when the chemicals were burned at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory near Chatsworth. - Associated Press Five deny charges in extortion plot Five Southland residents with reputed ties to Armenian organized crime pleaded not guilty Monday to charges stemming from an alleged kidnapping and extortion plot targeting an Armenian immigrant. The five, arrested last week and being held without bond, entered their pleas before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Game Jr. - City News Service Undercover cops fire on suspects CAMARILLO - Undercover narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. officers shot at two narcotics suspects Monday who rammed a pickup truck the officers were using during a drug investigation outside a Camarillo mall, police said. The drug suspects were not injured by the gunfire and were taken into custody, officials said. A police officer suffered minor injuries when the Honda sedan the suspects were in rammed the truck in the shopping center parking lot off Los Posas Road near the Ventura Freeway about 4 p.m., authorities said. - Daily News Financier in court in MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. takeover Florio Fiorini, one of two Italian financiers accused of acquiring MGM studios through fraud, was arraigned Monday as part of a plea deal that requires him to cooperate with a government probe of the French bank Credit Lyonnais. Fiorini, 60, who with financier Giancarlo Parretti controlled major entertainment companies in the 1990s, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy, securities fraud and filing false reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The charges involve a $1.5 billion fraud related to the 1990 takeover of MGM. - Associated Press Funding awarded to local colleges Two local community colleges with significant Latino student populations were awarded $400,000 grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, it was announced Monday. Los Angeles Mission College Los Angeles Mission College is a two-year community college located in Sylmar, California neighborhood of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, United States. It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District. and Los Angeles Trade-Technical College are among 13 colleges and universities around the country to receive Hispanic Serving Institutions Assisting Communities grants totaling $4.5 million. - City News Service |
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