BRIEFLY BUDGET SESSION SET FOR THURSDAY.SIMI VALLEY - City officials have proposed spending $44.5 million for fiscal 2001-02, a plan that includes an 18 percent increase in community service programs, such as stationing crossing guards at elementary schools. The City Council will hold a public meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday to discuss the preliminary budget, which is an 8.8 percent increase over the current plan. - Daily News Family and friends of victim gather NORTHRIDGE - About 30 family members and friends gathered on a Northridge street Tuesday to remember 56-year-old Teresa Duran, who was fatally stabbed adn run over with a car, allegedly by her estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. husband. Samuel Baca Duran, 54, who was charged with murder in the case, had a record of violence, and his wife recently had obtained a retraining re·train tr. & intr.v. re·trained, re·train·ing, re·trains To train or undergo training again. re·train order against him, police said. - City News Services Mistrial A courtroom trial that has been terminated prior to its normal conclusion. A mistrial has no legal effect and is considered an invalid or nugatory trial. It differs from a "new trial," which recognizes that a trial was completed but was set aside so that the issues could be declared in murder case A mistrial was declared Tuesday after jurors said they were deadlocked 9-3 for guilt in the case of a man accused of killing two witnesses who were expected to testify against one of his friends. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Green declared the mistrial after jurors announced they could not reach a verdict in the case of Randall Williams, 36. - City News Service No contest plea entered in case VAN NUYS - An Australian woman, whose sick passenger hung her head out a car window and died after the vehicle hit three parked cars in Reseda, pleaded no contest Tuesday to a felony hit-and-run driving charge. Karen Louise Shaw, 27, of Melbourne, also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge in connection with the Feb. 28 incident, said Sandi Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
- City News Service Public aid asked to identify body PORT HUENEME - The Ventura County coroner sought the public's help Tuesday in identifying a man whose body was recovered last week from the ocean near the La Janelle jetty jetty: see coast protection. . The man is described as between 50 and 70 years old, Caucasian or Latino, 5 feet, 9 inches tall. His hair is mostly gray, and dark brown to black. To report information, call (805) 641-4400. - Daily News White abalone now endangered The white abalone, a tasty Southern California 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 whose numbers have dropped from the millions in the 1970s to perhaps a few thousand, officially became an endangered species endangered species, any plant or animal species whose ability to survive and reproduce has been jeopardized by human activities. In 1999 the U.S. government, in accordance with the U.S. Tuesday. The listing by the National Marine Fisheries Service The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is a United States federal agency. A division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of Commerce, NMFS is responsible for the stewardship and management of the nation's living marine will not affect fishermen because the state has banned taking the species since 1996. But environmentalists hope the decision will bring in more funding to help the abalone's numbers rebound. - Associated Press |
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