BRIEFLY BOARD SEEKING TO SUE OVER MTBE.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 supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to ask the District Attorney's Office to consider filing lawsuits against past and present suppliers of fuels containing MTBE MTBE Methyl-tert-butyl-ether Surgery An aliphatic ether that rapidly dissolves cholesterol stones in vivo, introduced under local anesthesia via a percutaneous transhepatic cholecystectomy catheter, as a non-invasive method for treating gallstones; after injection, to ensure cleanup of contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. sites in the county. ``The gasoline additive methyl tertiary butul ether poses a significant threat to the drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. supplies of Los Angeles County,'' Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San said. ``More than 1,450 leaking tank sites exist in Los Angeles County where MTBE has been detected in soils or groundwater and cleanup is required.'' - Daily News 2nd Blake lawyer wants off case BURBANK - Actor Robert Blake's insistence on setting up a jail interview with Barbara Walters led a second defense lawyer to ask to leave his case Tuesday, the attorney disclosed. Jennifer Keller said in a phone interview that Blake had been visited by Walters last week and was in the process of arranging an on-camera interview when Keller and co-counsel Thomas Mesereau Jr. found out about it from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. . The first defense lawyer to quit Blake's case did so after learning that the star of the old ``Baretta'' TV show had tried to arrange an interview with Diane Sawyer. ``When I came into the case it was on the assurance that no interviews would be given without my knowledge,'' said Keller. - Associated Press Board to toughen sex-crime laws The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
- Daily News Auto dealers give to schools THOUSAND OAKS - Dealers from the Thousand Oaks Auto Mall have pledged $250,000 to help local schools and are calling on other businesses to join them in making contributions to education. Since 1999, the auto dealers have donated more than $650,000 to six Conejo Valley elementary schools in need of funding. In the past, the funds have gone to pay for books, computer-assisted reading programs and classroom computers. Some of the schools being supported by the funds have more than 50 percent of their students receiving free or reduced-cost lunches, signaling low family incomes. - Daily News Encino man sued in pyramid scam Federal regulators sued an Encino man Tuesday for allegedly bilking investors out of $4.5 million in a pyramid scheme Pyramid Scheme An illegal investment scam based on a hierarchical setup that relies on new recruits' funding as the source of money, or so-called returns, to be provided to those earlier investors/recruits above them in the pyramid. , then using the money to finance a money-losing adult-film business. The Securities and Exchange Commission, which filed the action in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, alleges that Nicholas Roblee and his company, Premier Marketing & Investments, Inc., violated securities laws by selling supposed ``high-yield'' securities promising returns of up to 200 percent per month. - City News Service |
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