BRIEFLY BUSH TO OPEN L.A. COUNTY FAIR.Texas Gov. George W. Bush plans to stop in Pomona Thursday to open the 2000 Los Angeles County Fair The Los Angeles County Fair (also called simply the L.A. County Fair) is an annual event held in the Fairplex in Pomona, California, held every September. It is a carnival with rides, merchants, food vendors, cooking contests, and livestock. The 2007 L.A. , county fair and campaign officials said Monday. ``We have just received confirmation that he will actually be here,'' County Fair spokeswoman Sharon Autry said late Monday. Bush, the Republican nominee for president, will appear during a fund- raising swing through Southern California. A campaign staffer said the Texas governor will officially open the two- week fair themed ``A Journey to Our Destiny'' with a speech at about 3:30 p.m. - Daily News Extradition sought in 1992 killing Authorities are seeking to extradite a 26-year-old man arrested last week in Mesa, Ariz., on suspicion of killing a rival gang member in Pacoima eight years ago. Hector Martinez, now 26, is accused of shooting Mark Sebastian Gasca, then 17, of Pacoima, in an Aug. 23, 1992 gang dispute at a gas station at Laurel Canyon Boulevard Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). and Paxton Avenue, said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Detective Robert Vanina of the Foothill Division. Martinez, who was 18 at the time of the killing, immediately fled to Mexico, but moved to Arizona five years ago, where he assumed another name and was working in contruction, Vanina said. He was arrested Sept. 6. - Daily News Man convicted in LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) funds case A man was convicted and sentenced to a two-year prison term Monday for getting hold of a $9.8 million check meant for the Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. district and trying to transfer some of the funds to another account. A jury deliberated for roughly 90 minutes before returning a guilty verdict against 42-year-old Patrick Terry Cotton, also known as James Hunter, who was immediately sentenced. - City News Service East L.A. freeways a traffic hot spot The East L.A. Interchange - with connector roads between the 5, 10, 60 and 101 freeways - as listed Monday as one of the nation's 10 worst commuter hot spots by the American Automobile Association American Automobile Association (AAA), federation of American automobile clubs, est. 1902. AAA provides a number of benefits to its members, including emergency road service; national and international travel assistance, e.g. . The East L.A. Interchange is traveled daily by an estimated 560,000 vehicles, with numerous lane changes, merges and traffic tie-ups. ``These hot spots were chosen because they have a large volume of traffic and cause the longest delays in their areas,'' said Mantill Williams, a spokesman for the AAA AAA: see American Automobile Association. (Triple A) A common single-cell battery used in a myriad of electronic devices of all variety. Like its double A (AA) cousin, it provides 1.5 volts of DC power. When used in series, the voltage is multiplied. . - City News Service LAUSD to get free cell phones Sprint PCS will donate 330 cell phones to more than 60 Los Angeles Unified schools, including several in 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. , Superintendent Roy Romer is expected to announce today. The phones, with free local service, will be used by teachers and school staff on campus, field trips and to communicate with parents, district officials said. - Daily News Woman sentenced in embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. A federal judge sentenced a La Canada Flintridge woman Monday to 21 months in prison for embezzling nearly $413,000 from Founders National Bank. Siriluck Hastanand, 47, who for 18 years worked as controller for Los Angeles' only black-owned commercial bank, pleaded guilty June 2 to two counts of misappropriating funds, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Stern. - City News Service |
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