BRIEFLY CALABASAS MAN SNOWBOARD VICTIM.A snowboarder from Calabasas found dead at Vail Ski Resort The Vail Ski Resort is located in Eagle County, Colorado next to the town of Vail. Vail Mountain, at 5289 acres, is the largest single mountain ski resort in The United States, featuring seven bowls and intermediate gladed terrain in Blue Sky Basin. was the boyfriend of Clint Eastwood's daughter, authorities said Wednesday. Michael Combs, 42, was found Tuesday morning after he was reported missing Monday night, said Eagle County sheriff's spokeswoman Kim Andree. His body was found in a closed area, Vail Resorts Vail Resorts, Inc. runs four ski resorts in Colorado, as well as one in Lake Tahoe (on the California-Nevada border) and a summer resort in Wyoming. They also own luxury resort hotels throughout the United States. The company trades on the New York Stock Exchange, symbol MTN. spokeswoman Jen Brown said. It was not immediately clear whether that meant an off-limits area, or part of the slope that has not yet been opened. Combs had been snowboarding with Alison Eastwood, the actor/director's daughter. - 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. 2 teens charged in laptop burglary SHERMAN OAKS - Two teenagers accused of breaking into the Sherman Oaks apartment of Robert Blake's attorney and stealing a laptop computer with key legal documents on it were charged with burglary Wednesday. Koi Hughes Burton, 18, and Michael Washington Jr., 19, were charged with two felony counts each of first-degree residential burglary. Burton also is accused of one misdemeanor count of petty theft from a pawnbroker pawnbroker, one who makes loans on personal effects that are left as security. The practice of pawnbroking is ancient, as is recognition of the danger it involves of oppressing the poor. or secondhand dealer. Attorney Gerald Schwartzbach's computer, taken during the burglary, was recovered from the United Pawn Shop a shop where a pawnbroker does business. - Shak. See also: Pawn in Van Nuys and returned Tuesday. - City News Service Tara's death due to heart failure Tara, an African elephant who had lived at the Los Angeles Zoo The Los Angeles Zoo founded in 1966, is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Zoo, located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, is home to 1,200 animals from around the world. since 1966, died of acute heart failure, according to preliminary results of a necropsy necropsy /nec·rop·sy/ (nek´rop-se) examination of a body after death; autopsy. nec·rop·sy n. See autopsy. necropsy examination of a body after death. See also autopsy. , zoo officials said Wednesday. Tara had appeared to be in good health until she was found early Tuesday, lying on her side in her compound. The necropsy, conducted at a San Bernardino laboratory of the University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. , will be followed up with more detailed evaluations that could take eight to 10 weeks to complete. - Associated Press Officer, motorist hurt in collision A police officer and another motorist suffered minor injuries Wednesday when their cars collided in a Simi Valley intersection, authorities said. Simi Valley police Officer Joe Pesce was responding to an injury traffic collision with his lights and siren going when the crash happened about 3:50 p.m. at First and Cochran streets, Sgt. Joe May said. The motorist apparently didn't hear the siren and crashed into Pesce's police cruiser, May said. Both were taken to hospitals for treatment of minor injuries, he said. - Daily News Teacher gets time for false report A former Claremont McKenna College A member of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont McKenna College is a small, highly selective, private coeducational, liberal arts college enrolling about 1100 students with a curricular emphasis on government, economics, and public policy. psychology professor convicted of falsely reporting that her car was vandalized and spray-painted with racist and anti-Semitic slurs was sentenced Wednesday to a year in state prison. Kerri Dunn, 40, of Redlands had said her car was targeted in what at first appeared to be a hate crime while she was speaking at a campus forum on racial tolerance. Dunn was convicted Aug. 18 of one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report and two felony counts of attempted insurance fraud. - Associated Press |
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